Category Archives: Environment

Article: Scientists Help Protect Guatemala's Lake Atitlan

The following excerpt is from a June 23, 2010 article published by redOrbit.com.  To view the article in its entirety, please click here. Work to augment efforts to clean and protect lake and drinking water from harmful algae blooms. A team of scientists from the University of Nevada, Reno, DRI, Arizona State University and University [...]

Article: SG Biofuels Announces 'Elite' Jatropha Cultivar

The following excerpt is from a February 22, 2010 article published in the Los Angeles Times.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. SG Biofuels on Monday revealed a proprietary variety of the jatropha curcas plant that the Encinitas-based company said will yield more oil at a more profitable rate. The newly [...]

Article: How Guatemala's Most Beautiful Lake Turned Ugly

The following excerpt is from a November 29, 2009 article published by Time.com.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. By Ezra Fieser In his 1934 travel book Beyond the Mexique Bay, Aldous Huxley compared Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan to Italy’s Lake Como. The Italian body of water, he wrote, “touches the limit [...]