Environmental Graffiti

The Day the Niagara Falls Froze Over

It's an amazing snapshot – so amazing that many have been quick to cry fake: North America's most iconic falls, apparently frozen mid-flow – but what moment in time is frozen in sepia within this frame? One might think the answer would be simple, but with the origins of this photo veiled in a mist of uncertainty like the spray produced by the falls themselves, nothing is guaranteed.

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Geological Faults that Tear the Earth Apart

An earthquake shaking the very foundations you live on would be jeopardy enough for most people to endure, but if upon stepping outside your home you were also to find massive fissures riddling the earth, cathedral-sized alarm bells would start ringing. Cracks appearing in the ground during major seismic events is picture book stuff, but let's see how they look for real, while considering the forces that cause them – and the effects they have.

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Chrysler Offers 2.99 Gas. Is This a Good Idea?

Don’t you worry about a thing, darlin’. That gas is capped at 2.99. Image from MShades I think I’ve been more than a little vocal about the gas price crisis in America, but have, aside from making fun of our Presidential candidates, left out all of [...]

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Does Faeces Cure Lead Poisoning?

This would be funny if it wasn’t both dangerous and disgusting: scientists using federal grant money spread sludge made of processed human waste over the yard of nine families in a poor, largely African-American section of Baltimore. Image from Bukutgirl on Flickr

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Environmentalism in 1739

The environmental movement today, much like many other socio-political movements, is focused mainly on the present and future. With that focus, it’s easy to lose sight of how environmentalism, and the environment, came to be where it is now. This series attempts to give a little more [...]

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