Environment

It is time Scientists participate in green house gas mitigation negotiations

Different countries participate in annual negotiations. Countries are represented by the Heads of state, or ministers of environment, or ministers of forests. They make commitments. NGOs look for enhanced funding. The commitments to reduce green house gas ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 17 2011 - 7:58am

Green Routing: The Path Of Least Emissions?

Green solutions have made lofty claims in the last few decades but they have been optimistic hope more than reality. S imulations from the University at Buffalo may change that; they say it's possible for drivers to cut their tailpipe emissions withou ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2011 - 10:23pm

Fat-Busting Bugs

From a Press Release by Yorkshire Water: Trillions Of Fat-Busting Bugs To Be Deployed To Help Fight Sewer Fat Trillions of fat busting bugs are being deployed from today (Thursday 22 December) by Yorkshire Water over the festive period as it bids to rid it ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 27 2011 - 12:14pm

Mammals And Ancient Climate Change: A Quantitative Discovery

The last 65 million years of natural history in North America may be broken into six distinct, consecutive waves of mammal species diversity, or evolutionary faunas', according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 27 2011 - 9:30pm

Brown Planthoppers And Ecological Resilience In Rice: The Pesticide Concern

One of the most effective arguments for science solutions to agriculture issues is the misuse of pesticides.  It's one area where activists and scientists agree. Brown planthoppers are one of a rice farmer's worst fears.  Considered a major scour ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2012 - 11:40am

Salinity is a global problem especially in arid and semi-arid regions

Salinity is a global problem. The continuous loss of arable land due to irrigation in arid and semi-arid regions of the world, over-exploitation and mismanagement contribute to global change in a way which currently appears to draw much less concern in th ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jan 15 2012 - 5:54pm

Discovered: Floor Of The World's Oldest Forest

Scientists have reported the discovery of the floor of the world's oldest forest. They  are now piecing together a view of this ancient site, dating back about 385 million years and- because virtually all studies have to reference global warming these ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2012 - 2:48pm

Biofuels: Jatropha curcas in retrospect and prospect

• Climate change is any long-term significant change in average temperature, precipitation and wind patterns. Climate change takes place due to emissions of greenhouse gases which causes environmental damage to any given area..Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 7 2012 - 8:06pm

Japanese Nuclear Reactor Future: Another High Tech Sarcophagus?

Even one year after the disaster at the Daiichi nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan, it is still unfolding. It was locally surpassing the severity of Chernobyl relatively soon in the first few weeks. Four out of the six facilities were already no more than a ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 13 2012 - 11:26am

Irrigation- The Big Carbon Elephant In The Global Warming Room

Rice and wheat take a lot of water to grow and no one eats more than China.  That also means no one contributes more to global warming from irrigation than China- a whopping 30 million tons of CO2 per year just from the pumping systems China uses. Like eve ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2012 - 1:00pm