Russ McBee

This sounds like the plot of a bad 50's sci-fi movie, but it's real: Billions of jellyfish in a dense school covering 10 square miles wiped out the entire population of more than 100,000 fish at Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, the business owners said Wednesday. [...] The species of jellyfish responsible, Pelagia nocticula -- popularly ...

This is incredible: a study conducted by NOAA has concluded that the practice of ''flaring'' natural gas (burning it at the outlet of an oil well) wastes an amount of gas worth $40 billion per year, resulting in an unnecessary annual injection of 400 million tons of extra carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That equals half the current CO2 ...

An article in Friday's New York Times by Matthew Wald bears the provocative title, ''Wind Farms May Not Lower Air Pollution, Study Suggests.'' This is, of course, completely ridiculous. The article is about a report by the National Academy of Sciences on the subject, but doesn't provide a link to the report itself (the ...