Environment
- California Government Is The Big Water Management Problem
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It is raining in California as I write this but most of it will do little good. The rain is going to go to a gutter and the gutter will go to a stream and that will go to an ocean. Yes, much of the fresh water that California has runs into the Pacific Ocea ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 7 2015 - 10:45pm
- Climate Change May Accelerate Carbon Loss From Soils
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Soil is considered e a semi-permanent storehouse for ancient carbon but it may instead be releasing carbon dioxide to the atmosphere faster than thought, which means that the carbon bomb not happening in one study could be happening in this other one publ ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2015 - 9:28am
- Big 6? Capitanian Extinction Gets New Evidence
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Since the Cambrian Explosion, ecosystems have suffered repeated mass extinctions, 5 of which wiped out half of all species: The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction, the Triassic–Jurassic extinction, the Permian–Triassic extinction, the Late Devonian extinction ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2015 - 8:30am
- Soil Can Limit Ability Of Plants To Slow Climate Change
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Many scientists assume that the growing level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will accelerate plant growth but a new study suggests much of this growth will be curtailed by limited soil nutrients so that by the end of the century, there may be more 10 ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2015 - 7:30am
- Diabetes Drug Metformin Linked To Intersex Fish
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Metformin, a medication commonly taken for Type II diabetes, is being found in freshwater systems worldwide, and a new study says that it causes physical changes in male fish exposed to doses similar to the amount in wastewater effluent. It causes interse ...
Article - News Staff - May 1 2015 - 8:50am
- Cold Case Tibet: Climate Change Implicated In Collapse 4,000 Years Ago
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Climate change may have been be responsible for the abrupt collapse of civilization on the fringes of the Tibetan Plateau around 2,000 B.C.- but it wasn't the modern political connotation of climate change, with man-made carbon dioxide causing warming ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2015 - 7:28am
- Create A Carbon Sink From Your Organic Farm
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Agriculture is a breathtaking achievement of modern science. We are on the path to being able to feed the world for the first time in history and the upward trend in obesity is due to the fact that more food has been produced at lower cost with less envir ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2015 - 11:55am
- Airplane De-Icing Agents Linked To Reduced Oxygen In Groundwater
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Spring is here and that means fewer airplanes need to be de-iced. That may be good, according to a new study which finds that de-icing agents accumulated during the winter, which end up on unpaved areas and infiltrate into the soils during snowmelt, could ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2015 - 7:50am
- Chlorophyll Fluorescence: Forest Glow Of Photosynthesis Activity Can Be Tracked From Space
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A research team has provided ground-truth for a method of measuring plant photosynthesis on a global scale: from low-Earth orbit. ...
Article - News Staff - May 2 2015 - 8:33am
- How To Responsibly Increase Edamame Acreage In The Midwest
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Edamame- vegetable soybean- is not widely grown in the United States, but it is growing in popularity. Part of the reason only about 85 million acres of grain-type soybean were grown in the U.S. in 2014 is because Asia can do it cheaply and there has been ...
Article - News Staff - May 9 2015 - 8:30am
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