Environment

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

Sustainable Fertilizers From Green Energy Waste

Researchers are searching for a sustainable, environmentally-friendlier source of soil conditioner and crop fertilizer that could reduce costs to farmers-  all from renewable energy waste. A collaborative project between Stopford Energy and Environment Lim ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2014 - 5:55pm

There Is No Magic Bullet For Climate Change

Climate change has happened throughout history, there are abandoned cities in places we would consider inhospitable, but they weren't at the times. As the climate changed, it has altered habitats not just for birds and bees and everything in between, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 18 2014 - 6:30pm