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Giant dragline moved in Indiana
Oh, the toys we make. Check out this massive dragline, above, that’s inching its way across an 18-mile stretch of Indiana this month. Peabody Energy is moving its 13-million-pound machine from the...
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Indiana senators oppose cleaner air rules
Indiana’s two senators, a Democrat and a Republican, have joined several others in calling on the EPA to abandoned its effort to strengthen the nation’s ozone standard in part because of our “difficult...
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We’re not alone
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today announced that combined land and ocean surface temperatures made this past July the second warmest globally on record. The world also just...
View ArticleLouisville v Pittsburgh on toxic air
A TV news report out of Pittsburgh has won national recognition for, in part, comparing Pittsburgh to Louisville on how both cities handle air pollution. And Louisville comes out ahead. The report by...
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Sarah Palin and "mama grizzlies."
This one is especially for wildlife biologists, or anyone who has spent time in grizzly bear country. A friend of mine and long-time Alaskan journalist Doug O’Harra, who has written extensively about...
View ArticleSmog gets in your eyes
For the 16th an 17th days this year, Louisville exceeded the federal standard for ozone. The Louisville Air Pollution Control District’s Matt Stull told me this morning of readings on Friday in...
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Can you hear me now? Activist overcomes technical difficulty on MSNBC
Now that was embarrassing. A Kentucky resident goes to a TV studio in Lexington to be interviewed by Keith Olbermann on MSNBC and she has to use her cell phone to hear his questions! It seems like...
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Recording a glacier’s death in Indonesia
A University of Louisville geography professor has returned from another expedition atop one of the world’s mountain ranges, collecting ice from melting glaciers. And this one was rather harrowing,...
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Now that’s a big trash and log jam
Louisville top parks people justifiably gushed over the city’s rich collection of parks in a recent op-ed piece. We do have a lot of good going on here. But our parks have a lot of challenges, too,...
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Praying for a meal
This big guy (or gal) greeted me in The Courier-Journal parking lot Monday night, 11:50 p.m., when I was leaving after working a late shift. Here is what the University of Kentucky has to say about...
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