Some people like the concept of wind/renewable power. There are some who do not. Nevertheless society needs energy to run its desired lifestyle. So how are we in 2011 so far? The AWEA (American Wind Energy Association) indicated that the first quar…
US agriculture stands to lose billions in free ecosystem services from the often-feared and rarely respected humble bat. According to a recent study in Science bats in North America provide the US agricultural industry at least $3.7 billion and up to a…
Bike lanes? Wind turbines? Mass transit? All great developments for progressives — until they have to live with them.
While cats are a far greater than wind turbines are to small birds, that doesn’t hold true for endangered species like the whooping crane, golden eagle or sage grouse.
While cats are a far greater than wind turbines are to small birds, that doesn’t hold true for endangered species like the whooping crane, golden eagle or sage grouse.
While public attention has focused on wind turbines as a menace to birds, a new study shows that a far greater threat may be posed by a more familiar antagonist: the house cat.
Birds are different from human beings obviously. Birds have been known to fly into objects and knock themselves out. Why does this happen? A sensory ecology framework is used in a new research study to seek to assess why flying birds collide with pr…
Why do people who say they care about the environment sometimes act as though they don’t when it comes to a specific change?
The Obama administration plans to establish four “wind energy areas” off the mid-Atlantic states and provide information to potential investors about their geophysical attributes.
The label would guarantee that a product was manufactured with some wind power.