Subject: Wishful Thinking – Methane plumes & Ocean Acidification More precursors/signals: 1. Methane plumes from the arctic. This precursor event has a high probability of rapidly accelerating the timeframes for climate change impacts and increasing them to much more devastating levels. 2. Oysters shells dissolving on both coasts …
Desert-Greening: The Next Big Thing for Green Investors
By Hazel Henderson © 2014 for GreenMoney Journal Asset managers and investors are supposed to be rational actors, cranking in all available information leading to efficient markets and optimal resource-allocation. As market failures continue to proliferate and hidden externalities come home to roost, we find that successful investing requires going …
EarthKeeper News: The Disaster We’ve Wrought on the World’s Oceans May Be Irrevocable
Keep the Earth. Keep it Wild! August Newsletter “The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy” – …
OTHER NEWS: At the Crucial Nexus of Water and Energy
While it is, of course, vital to finally link water and energy use, this report still overlooks the opportunities for saline agriculture and aquaculture to provide all of our growing human family’s needs for food, fiber and fuel from our most abundant global resources: the Earth’s 97% seawater; daily free …
HALOPHYTES AND XEROHALOPHYTES
Saline habitats occur along bodies of saltwater, e.g., coastal salt marsh, and inland within high-evaporation basins, saline lakes, and lowlands of dryland and desert topography. The electrolytes sodium (a cation) and chloride (an anion) are extremely toxic to most plants at relatively low soil water concentrations, due to deleterious effects …
Atmospheric and Soil Carbon and Halophytes
Robert C. Hendricks, NASA, Glenn Research Center Dennis M. Bushnell, NASA, Langley Research Center Abstract World population is anticipated to grow 40% within 40–50 years (2008 baseline) with unprecedented demands for energy, food, freshwater, and clean environments. At 43% of the total landmass, exploiting the Earth’s arid and semi-arid …
Saline Agriculture to Feed and Fuel the World
Saline Agriculture to Feed and Fuel the World Shortage of fresh water poses a much bigger threat to world food supply than the shortage of fossil fuels; cultivating salt-tolerant crops could solve both problems Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins Fresh water in short supply and salinization widespread People …
Transforming seawater into fuel | Daily
SMARTPLANET DAILY FROM THE DESK OF … Navy destroyers burn through a thousand gallons of fuel an hour. No wonder researchers have been feverishly working towards alternatives. Have a great weekend, everyone! — Aly Windsor, News Editor How the U.S. Navy will turn seawater into fuel In a test held last …
Desert plants to be put to the test for aviation biofuel production
Desert plants to be put to the test for aviation biofuel production The Salicornia is one species of halophyte that is a promising feedstock for biofuel production (Photo: SBRC) Image Gallery (2 images) Whenever the topic of plant-derived biofuels is raised, the issue of turning valuable arable land over to the task of …
Analysis of Marcellus flowback finds high levels of ancient brines
Analysis of Marcellus flowback finds high levels of ancient brines Posted: 18 Dec 2012 05:35 PM PST Brine water that flows back from gas wells in the Marcellus Shale region after hydraulic fracturing is many times more salty than seawater, with high contents of various elements, including radium and barium. …
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