Environment

Super Reefs To The Climate Change Rescue

The Wildlife Conservation Society announced at the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), which is meeting this week in Phuket, Thailand, results showing that some coral reefs off East Africa are unusually resilient to climate change due to improved f ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2009 - 11:10am

Abscisic Acid- Gene That Helps Plants Resist Drought Discovered

A team of scientists from Canada, Spain and the United States has identified a key gene that allows plants to defend themselves against environmental stresses like drought, freezing and heat.  "Plants have stress hormones that they produce naturally a ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2009 - 6:20pm

Concrete Better Than Wood For The Environment? In Railroads, It Is

Wood or concrete for a cleaner environment? Wood seems like the obvious answer because it is natural, biodegradeable and renewable but  in the railway industry it isn't so simple.   Railroads around the world face environmental decisions as they repla ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2009 - 12:39am

Biomass And Bio-Oil Would Be A Lot More Environmentally Efficient If They Were Easily Converted To...

Bio-oil is an aqueous, acidic, highly oxidized mixture. However, its high oxygen content and instability turn out to have a negative impact: bio-oil cannot be used directly as a liquid fuel. It would, however, be highly interesting as a source of basic raw ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2009 - 9:36am

Smokers Relieved- Obesity Is Getting Blamed For Everything Now

We already have a war on drugs, a war on terror, and war against everything French (freedom fries anyone?) but our capacity for war is seemingly unlimited and the newest vendetta has targeted high BMIs. That's right, we're fighting a war on fat p ...

Article - Erin Richards - May 12 2009 - 4:33pm

Anoplophora glabrienpennis: Beetles from China

The Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) with their distinct white and black coloring are natives of China, but these hardwood tree killers have been around New York since 1996.  ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Jun 24 2009 - 1:02pm

Update from Demeter Design

We have just finished the second version of our environmental database. This database includes not only our own published work but hundreds of publications regarding Salmon, Habitat, Climate Change, Invasive Weeds, and more.  We also have loads of GIS data ...

Blog Post - Demeter Design - May 13 2009 - 1:49pm

Scientists On Track For A 'Green' Refrigerator Using Magnets

Let's be honest, the one thing you worry about most when driving your Hummer and sipping corporate-farmed coffee is how much damage that Union Oyster House ("oldest restaurant in America!") refrigerator magnet in your house is doing to the e ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2009 - 10:44am

Return To The Land- Not With These Numbers

It is often envisioned that humans could return to a simpler, more rural way of life and thereby live a more environmentally friendly existence. This is not only unrealistic, but in examining the numbers it becomes clear just what a predicament our human p ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Jul 14 2011 - 9:10pm

Missing Historical Climate Data- A New Formula Says It Can Fill In The Gaps

Studies of climate evolution and the ecology of past-times are often hampered by missing information – lost variables needed to complete the picture and thought untraceable have made too many assumptions necessary.   Scientists writing in in the June issue ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2009 - 11:34pm