Environment

American Classification System Proposed For Green Roofs- Let's Not Overthink It

Green roofs, well-established in Europe, are becoming a growing trend in North America. Some benefits are tangible, like conserving energy and managing storm water runoff, while others are more speculative, such as improving air quality or having a positi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2013 - 12:35pm

Citizens Produce Forest And Emissions Data Equal In Quality To Government Employees

Protecting carbon-storing forests in the developing world may be easier than mobilizing government bureaucracies; a recent paper finds that local communities, using simple tools like ropes and sticks, can produce forest carbon data on par with results by ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2013 - 5:30am

Trees Sleep Longer During A Warmer Winter

People who live in regions where there is a real change of seasons know that plants go 'dormant' in the winter and then spring to life again as the weather warms. But a new study found a counter-intuitive effect; instead of a colder winter causi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2013 - 9:31am

Outwit Destructive Beetles Using Pheromone Science

The mountain pine beetle is killing lodgepole pine and jack pine forests in the Western United States, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Alberta and could spread east to the Maritimes. Yes, beetles are natural, but before you start waving Sierr ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2014 - 6:33pm

Environmental Toxins During Pregnancy Linked To Child Heart Defects

Children's congenital heart defects may be associated with their mothers' exposure to specific mixtures of environmental toxins during pregnancy, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2013. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2013 - 1:35pm

War On Meat: Climate Change 'Hoofprint' Varies Dramatically

Almost every study of food production over the last decade has claimed it has implications for global warming, but in reality the resources required to grow food and raise livestock and grains vary dramatically depending on the animal, the type of food it ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2013 - 11:40am

A Modern Explorer's Journey- Mobilizing Resources For Water Cycle Research And Earth Observations

New series of webinars on Earth observations and the water cycle – Check details at the end of this article. ...

Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Dec 17 2013 - 12:46am

Modern Caterpillars Adapted To Climate Change Decades Ago

Caterpillars of two species of butterflies in Colorado and California aren't waiting for China and India to stop belching out so much CO2- according to a paper in the journal Functional Ecology, they have already evolved to feed rapidly at higher and ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2013 - 4:50pm

Mercury In The Arctic Overestimated

The assumption has long been that if mercury is increasing in fish in the North American and European Arctic, the same is true of fish elsewhere in the Arctic. Not so, according to conservation scientists from the U.S., Russia, and Canada.  Atmospheric mer ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 26 2013 - 11:45am

Fewer Killing Frosts Are Good For Mangrove Forests, Bad For Salt Marshes

While the number of killing frosts in southern Florida has remained unchanged since 1984, the number a short distance away declined enough that researchers are implicating global warming, and noted that the expansion of cold-sensitive mangrove forests alo ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2013 - 7:05pm