Environment Blogs

Discover the best independent blogs about environment on BlogRolly.

• Denial Of Service — Imagine hauling a Christmas tree through freezing rain on a bike. That pop up treecycling drop off saved me and laid bar
• How Sewage Recycling Works — What happens when a city nearly runs out of water and turns wastewater into drinking water? I walk through how sewage re
• The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls — Standing at the rim of Horseshoe Falls, I map the hidden engineering of Niagara. This transcript of my video tours the N
• Do Retention Ponds Actually Work? — Curious if retention ponds actually work? At Atlanta's Historic Fourth Ward Park I show how a 5 acre stormwater pond sol
• Problematic Pollen — Walking Passeig de Gràcia I tracked a stingy pollen mystery to Quercus ilex, the Holm oak. I recount simple street exper
• Eating the seed corn, Not — Surprising truth: starving scientists refused to eat the priceless seed bank. While writing book reviews at Coolock Bran
• Catastrophes and mental collapse — Sometimes the world feels surrendered to fossil fuel power, and my climate anxiety and mental health are fraying. I writ
• Fiction, versus reality’s lack of resolution — What if story beats kept us hopeful about climate change, but reality has no tidy resolution? This post tracks how ficti
• Not doing well — Not doing well is my honest reply these days. I explain how multilateralism and evidence-based policy are collapsing whi
• Toxic haze — Toronto's sky turned a toxic haze this week. In this post I explain why Toronto ranked third-worst on IQAir's Air Qualit
• The environmental movement and young people’s rage — Remember that book 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth? I revisit my childhood copy to show how the environme
• Planting with the city — A damp morning, 50+ volunteers and 90 minutes turned a lawn edge in Taylor Creek Park into a new shrubby forest. In this
• Mars as a refuge for humanity? — Think Mars is a Plan B? I argue Mars as a refuge for humanity is a myth. I explain why Mars colonization myths fall apar
• Nuclear risks briefing — Not many people know that a few bombs threaten everyone. In this nuclear risks briefing I demystify nuclear weapon risks
• America is demolishing its brain — Terrifying trend: the Trump administration's anti-science agenda is hollowing out NASA missions, climate research and pu
• Countries in the Sky — Ever wondered how your country looks projected into the sky? I created the ZenithMap to visualize national borders on th
• An "Extinct" Fish Finds Life Again in a Parched Desert: The Saga of the Shoshone Pupfish — What if a fish declared extinct turned up in an irrigation ditch? On a trip to Shoshone east of Death Valley I tell the
• The Grand Staircase — Shrinking the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument left me quietly melancholy. Raised on Desert Solitaire, my fat
• Where have the Chapungu gone? — Where did the chapungu go? I get cranky about Terence O. Ranger, the decline of the bateleur eagle in Zimbabwe, and how
• Wrath of Pele — May 2018 Kilauea eruption forced evacuations and reshaped neighborhoods. I piece together the Kilauea 2018 eruption time
• Plastic Paper — A thoughtful observation on material choices, waste, and modern convenience, using everyday packaging as a prompt to ref
• Classic Cars and Wales — "NEC Wales" doc or film about Welsh nuclear energy history/tech. Explores regional industry, environmental impact, natio