Environment

Climate Change May Slow Down The Agriculture Boom

It's no secret that the last few decades have seen a whirlwind of improvements in agricultural science. Where the world once feared the future of Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren, with mass starvations and forced sterilization, we now have so much food ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2014 - 1:30pm

Prehistoric Dairy Farming At Extreme Latitudes

Before there was a war on wheat and a war on sugar, there was a war on dairy products. Nutritionists need science insight the most and are least likely to want it, they instead listen to Yogic flying instructors, actresses and Food Babes at conferences em ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2014 - 9:04pm

Northwest Territories Live Fire Map: Fires Not Slowing Around Yellowknife

Fires and the resultant smoke that comes from them are both just as widespread and heavy as they were in the month of July. Hundreds of fires dot the landscape and the Northwest Territories Live Fire map shows the extent of the wildfires and hot spots tha ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2014 - 9:32am

Perchlorate Epidemiologically Linked To IQ Of Unborn Children

In some women abnormally high levels of the common and pervasive chemical perchlorate may lead to adverse effects in their offspring. The study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology  &  Metabolism says is the first of its kind to shed light on the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2014 - 1:00pm

Pesticides: Arctic Mammals Metabolize Them And Even Limit Human Exposure

You aren't always what you eat – and that's a good thing. It's also why pesticides in reasonable usage haven't harmed arctic mammals such as caribou. Not only can caribou metabolize some current-use pesticides ingested in vegetation, t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2014 - 11:52pm

Linked Habitats Risk: Wildlife Corridors Help Invasive Species Spread

Miles of linked habitat sounds like a good thing- until the ants show up. Environmentalists who promote the notion of unintended consequences regarding genetic modification never considered that wildlife corridors might have risks also- but they do, as a ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2014 - 3:08pm

The History Of California Is A History Of Fire And Drought

Southern California is aghast that cities are now enforcing water usage cutbacks during the ongoing drought- it's because during the mandatory restrictions, while the farming regions of central California have met their targets, water usage in southe ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2014 - 9:29am

The Effect Of Habitat Fragmentation On The Forest Carbon Cycle

Drier conditions at the edges of forest patches slow down the decay of dead wood and significantly alter the cycling of carbon and nutrients in woodland ecosystems, according to a new study. Forests around the world have become increasingly fragmented, an ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2014 - 10:30am

10,000 Shots Of Scotch And Why I Don't Fear Pesticides

One of the biggest struggles in toxicology is creating the correct parameters so you are modeling the real world as closely as possible. It's an enormous task to model the environment with its millions of factors, so controlled studies are done using ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 6 2015 - 11:33am

Quantitative Genetics: Genomic Prediction Of Hybrid Rice Performance

In quantitative genetics,  genomic prediction is a statistical approach to predicting the value of an economically important trait in a plant, such as yield or disease resistance. The method works if the trait is heritable, as many traits tend to be, and ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2014 - 4:01pm