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I hiked to California's mythical Giant Rock, the purported largest freestanding boulder in the world FacebookTwitterEmail “Where is it?” I’m in the back middle seat of an SUV — sandwiched between my two oldest daughters — ping-ponging my head between windows, scanning California’s Mojave Desert for a giant rock, not any giant rock, THE Giant Rock. The purported largest freestanding boulder in the world, Giant Rock stands seven stories tall, weighs an astonishing 30,000 tons and covers an astounding 5,800 square feet on the ground. It’s probably not actually the largest — ther...

-200% 26% Progress in reading among students due to daylighting Sources: (absenteeism) independent studies from Lockheed Martin in California and ING Bank in the Netherlands; (turnover) study from Story County (Iowa) Human Services; (eyestrain, headaches and drowsiness) Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, “Worker Reactions to Electrochromic and Low-E Glass Office Windows;” (in schools)Heschong Mahone Group, “Daylighting in Schools: An Investigation into the Relationship Between Daylighting and Human Performance.” How can glass and glazing cut down HVAC...

ODOT outlines plans, seeks public feedback on Bend-to-Lava Lands multi-use trail ODOT BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) --  The Oregon Department of Transportation is inviting the public to provide feedback on plans for a paved multi-use trail from south of Bend to the Lava Lands Visitor Center. The proposed six-mile long trail will start south of Bend at the Baker Road/Knott Road interchange. From there, it will wind through a forest and old lava flow, terminating at the Lava Lands Visitor Center at Lava Butte. Along the way, the multi-use trail provides connections to the High Desert Museum, Sun Lava t...

They Call Themselves Green, But Palm Oil in the Amazon Means Deforestation and Human Rights Violations 0 views Shares Guided by an Indigenous leader, we drove down dusty roads in the Turé-Mariquita Indigenous Reserve, a “green island” encircled by oil palm plantations in the Brazilian Amazon. Uniform rows of oil palms cover huge swaths of land here in the northeast of the state of Pará, once home to a vibrant expanse of rainforest. Our Mongabay reporting team was there to discover if the palm oil business, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, is sustainable and ecolog...

Déjà vu as palm oil industry brings deforestation, pollution to Amazon Producers say their supply chains are green and sustainable, but prosecutors cite a long record of land grabbing, deforestation, pollution, and human rights violations by Karla Mendes on 12 March 2021 Palm oil, a crop synonymous with deforestation and community conflicts in Southeast Asia, is making inroads in the Brazilian Amazon, where the same issues are playing out. Indigenous and traditional communities say the plantations in their midst are polluting their water, poisoning their soil, and driving away fish and ga...