Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study (GLMRIS) Update 4/18/12 - GLMRIS Releases final ANS Control Paper based on public input following a 60-day public comment period after the initial paper was released in Dec 2011.…
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- Updated -- Invasive Species Lists (Major revision) Provides extensive lists and information for species declared invasive, noxious, prohibited, or otherwise harmful or potentially harmful. Information is organized by geographical…
Por Kelly Dulka El blog de Greenversations comenzó el Día del Planeta Tierra en el 2008. Desde entonces hemos compartido 1,500 entradas en 70 categorías diferentes y hemos leído unos 48,000 comentarios de personas como ustedes. Como una de las editoras de Greenversations, siempre he esperado con…
By Alice Kaufman Seed catalogs are piling up around the house. It’s that season when my attentions turn to spring, then to summer’s bounty. I grow just enough of the things our family likes but leave the veggies that take a lot of land to local farmers –things like corn and potatoes. I grow a…
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- Go Purple and Save an Ash Tree (Apr 17, 2012) These purple traps will be seen this spring and summer throughout Maryland and 46 other states that are participating in the 2012 Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) survey. The purple traps help…
The Greenversations blog launched on Earth Day in 2008. Since then, we’ve shared 1,500 posts in 70 different categories and read almost 48,000 comments from people like you. As one of the past Greenversations managers, I’ve looked forward to hearing from many of our regular readers and could…
Getting an early jump on Earth Day, students from several Boston-area schools helped ready and deploy a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ocean drifter today, contributing to a global array that yields vital environmental data.
NOAA today released a comprehensive draft management plan and environmental assessment for the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary for public review and comment. The plan will serve as a roadmap for addressing issues facing the sanctuary over the next five years.
Certainly the production of oil from the Bakken reduces U.S.imports of foreign oil. However,according to the Energy Information Administration ( http://www.eia.gov/ ), the U.S. imported about341 million barrels of oil and the Bakken Formation in North Dakota ( http:// www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas…
As the nation kicks off maritime celebrations to commemorate the War of 1812, NOAA is releasing special navigation products that will help recreational boaters enjoy the festivities safely.
By Una Song This year my husband and I went on vacation to Boise, Idaho to visit his parents, and then to San Francisco to attend my husband’s boss’s retirement party. The last time I was in Boise was before I started with the ENERGY STAR program. At that time, while I recognized the ENERGY…
NOAA has made sea floor maps and other data on the world’s coasts, continental shelves and deep ocean available for easy viewing online.
According to NOAA scientists, the average global temperature for March 2012 makes it the coolest March since 1999, yet the 16th warmest since record keeping began in 1880.
By Gina Snyder When I was a teenager, we used to play touch football in the neighborhood. Whoever was around would be allowed to play, regardless of ability or age. Super Bowl Sunday brought me back to those memories of what seemed like a simpler time. But maybe it wasn’t so simple. In those days,…
Irene has been retired from the official list of Atlantic Basin tropical storm names by the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) hurricane committee because of the fatalities and damage it caused in August 2011 and will be replaced by Irma.
By Vanessa Trafas When I began my search for the perfect internship in Washington DC I already knew where I wanted to work. EPA was the perfect opportunity for what I wanted to do. And, so, it was to be. I remember my first day at the Office of the Pesticide Programs in the communications [...]
By Tom Murray The answer is a guy named Tim. I’ve been in the pollution prevention game for quite awhile now and I and others in the field can regale you with P2 success stories well into the night. But every once in a while a story crosses my desk that just grabs me and [...]
This week, the GOES-7 satellite, one of NOAA’s earliest geostationary satellites, was moved into a higher orbit and retired from service. Launched in 1987, GOES-7 first served as a critical weather satellite, capturing images of developing hurricanes and other severe storms that impacted the…
Local environmental restoration projects will get a boost thanks to an agreement signed today by federal, state and tribal natural resource trustees to jointly conduct Natural Resource Damage Assessment(NRDA) activities within Port Angeles Harbor.
By Lina Younes Ever since my children were young, I tried to instill in them a love for math and science. So, when I saw the news of a new exhibit in the Washington area entitled “MathAlive,” it definitely became part of my “must see” list. Of course, I didn’t mention the title right off…