Environment http://www.akgmag.com/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:00:02 -0600 By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Geothermal activity is the bread and butter for the Yellowstone National Park, at least until quite recently. Electric companies have begun to notice irregular patterns coming from areas outside the park, while Landsat satellite imagery is noticing a fluctuation of temperatures inside the park from an aerial viewpoint of 438 miles above earth. NASA and the United States Geological Survey had joined... http://www.akgmag.com/article/Yellowstone_National_Park_May_Soon_Be_Losing_Steam.htm Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:33:03 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Yellowstone_National_Park_May_Soon_Be_Losing_Steam.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. With radon considered the 2nd leading cause of lung cancer, second only to cigarette smoking, the cold months of winter bring more accidental deaths than usual. An invisible, odorless and tasteless radioactive gas which is derived from the breakdown of uranium in soil, it is associated with approximately 22,000 lung cancer deaths annually and has the potential to affect 15% of American households. http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Hidden_Dangers_of_Radon.htm Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Hidden_Dangers_of_Radon.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Simply put, global warming is when the warming of our planet becomes "warmer" than it should be. And a foreseeable future in the Antarctica region seems to be a major focus of some of our top scientists. Accessed continuously, recently discovered are changes that have already developed and with more and more newer research going on, many consider global warming and Antarctica synonymous terms. http://www.akgmag.com/article/SEA_ICE_GROWTH_RATES_OF_ANTARCTIC.htm Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/SEA_ICE_GROWTH_RATES_OF_ANTARCTIC.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. In the mountains of Appalachia, illiteracy and poverty are higher than anywhere else in the country, with a focus on extreme hardships in the daily lives of its people. Even though the Appalachian Mountain runs from New York to Mississippi, when we think of the impoverished area of the Appalachians, it is within Central Appalachia. http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Appalachians_the_Forgotten_Part_of_America.htm Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Appalachians_the_Forgotten_Part_of_America.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. The Appalachian Region of the mountaintop removal mining area consists of 205,000-square miles with 23.6 million people living in 420 counties. Altogether, this is approximately 20% of our county's population. With coal considered an important source in the area, it is still not considered a major provider of jobs anymore according to the Appalachian Regional Commission, regardless what the media or advocates for the coal companies are screaming. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Central_Appalachian_s_Barrier_to_Severe_Poverty_Mountaintop_Removal_Mining_.htm Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Central_Appalachian_s_Barrier_to_Severe_Poverty_Mountaintop_Removal_Mining_.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Penned by "Mountain Justice", the title of this article brings about an image of a rabid runaway balding mountain—which is exactly what is happening in the Appalachian Mountains with strip mining. Extremely controversial with President Obama preparing to reverse the Bush administration policies for mountaintop coal mining, very few actually realize the facts about the area's mining operations which blasts the tops off mountains and them simply dumps the leftover rocks in ... http://www.akgmag.com/article/Mountain_Top_Mining__Strip_Mining__on_Steroids.htm Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Mountain_Top_Mining__Strip_Mining__on_Steroids.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. As more and more countries are facing eventual starvation and inadequate food production, modern biotechnology has become important to us in areas of agriculture and food production since the early 1990s. By 2005, improved food productive had utilized this scientific technique in over twenty-one countries, covering a total of 222 million acres with a method farming soybeans, squash, canola, soybeans, papaya, corn, and cotton. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Ins_and_Outs_of_Biotechnology_Foods.htm Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Ins_and_Outs_of_Biotechnology_Foods.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Coal ash has the ability to be either bad for the world or good, depending on whether it involves a serious coal-ash spill like the recent one in East Tennessee. In situations like this, then storing the waste from burning coal can quickly become deadly. An impoundment wall collapsed which resulted in a spill of more than a billion gallons of coal ash over 300 acres in Harriman, Tennessee. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Turning_Unhealthy_Coal_Ash_Into_Something_Beneficial_for_Mankind.htm Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Turning_Unhealthy_Coal_Ash_Into_Something_Beneficial_for_Mankind.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. When you type in the words "Zero Out Carbon" in Google, over 22,500,000 English pages come up with most of them referring to the same thing: the House of Legislature fails to zero out carbon as promised, at a loss of $89,000 already spent on a failure to cancel out 24,000 tons of emission. http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Failed_Promise_of_Zero_Out_Carbon.htm Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Failed_Promise_of_Zero_Out_Carbon.htm