NASA Considers Mini-Greenhouse On Mars

Green leaves, red planet. Well, somebody's already sent a bonsai into space.

"Icelanders Grieve for the Peculiar Lake Balls"

You know you just have to click on a headline like that.

Greening the Deserts with Carbon Dioxide

Well, whaddyaknow?  Look at this from the American Geophysical Union:

Scientists have long suspected that a flourishing of green foliage around the globe, observed since the early 1980s in satellite data, springs at least in part from the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere. Now, a study of arid regions around the globe finds that a carbon dioxide “fertilization effect” has, indeed, caused a gradual greening from 1982 to 2010.

I now expect professionally apocalyptic eco-zealots to complain that greening the desert will lead to the extinction of the sand worms or something.  The Spice global warming gravy train must flow!

A Tale of Two Gifts

A rock vs. a tree.