Habitat
Habitat is the physical environment that supports and nourishes ecosystems and biodiversity.
Precautionary Principle for Marcellus Shale
Health and Environmental Experts: Follow the Precautionary Principle on Natural Gas from the Marcellus Shale Since 2007, Pennsylvania has witnessed a dramatic increase in unconventional development of natural gas from the Marcellus shale formation using high-volume hydraulic fracturing, also called … more
Signers: Precautionary Principle for Marcellus Shale
Experts working in environmental or health field Patricia T. Bradt, PhD Environmental Science, Muhlenberg College John A. Cigliano, PhD Biology; Cedar Crest College Joseph C. Colosi, PhD Natural Science & Plant Ecology Chrysan Cronin, PhD Biology & Public Health; Muhlenberg … more
Marcellus Shale – Background
Info from Wikipedia: The Marcellus Formation is a black shale formation found throughout the Allegheny Plateau, running across the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes regions of New York, in northern and western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, through western Maryland, and throughout most of West Virginia extending across the state line into extreme western Virginia. The Marcellus bedrock … more
Impacts of drilling in Marcellus Shale
In this section, we focus on the environmental impacts of drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale formations using the fracking or fracturing method (some background info is given on the Marcellus Shale page). Thoughts about use of the resultant … more
Local Communities, the First Step Towards a Cooler World
by Lindsay Chamberlain — Across the country, global warming and climate change are a hot topic in the media, at office water coolers, in schools, and at the dinner table. The reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a … more
The Importance of Herding Animals
Allan Savory’s Holistic Management raises a number of important points about brittle environments and grazing animals: To decide what we should or shouldn’t do in managing our lands, we need to consider its brittleness: “…environments may be classified on a … more