Environment

TBA Hormone Used In Beef Cattle Persists In The Environment, Says Model

A numerical model estimates the  potential impact of environmental processes on contaminant fate of growth-promoting hormones used in beef production and leads the authors to believe they may persist in the environment at higher concentrations and for lon ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2015 - 8:47am

Sustainable Pest Management Systems Help Butterflies Too

Grape vineyards experimenting with sustainable pest management systems are seeing an unexpected benefit: an increase in butterflies. This method of conservation is easier in Washington, since vineyards in this state already face fewer pests and use fewer ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2015 - 5:32pm

Cattle Ranchers And Policy Agreements In Brazil Lead To 10X Decline In Deforestation

Before 2009, nearly 4 in 10 cattle ranchers and slaughterhouse in Brazil reported recent deforestation but by 2013, this number dropped to 4 in 100, a 10-fold decrease. What changed? Policies that were not simply advocated by first world elites that told p ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2015 - 12:51pm

Climate Change Won't Be The Big Factor In Future Predicted Diversity Loss

A new simulation modeled the effects of land use changes on the species diversity in rivers and streams and estimates that the loss of biodiversity will caused by changes in land use practices far more than by climate change. Despite that, climate change g ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2015 - 2:01pm

Tanzania's Disappearing Serengeti

Serengeti  means means “endless plains” in the Maasai language, but Tanzania's Serengeti National Park, which extends into Kenya towards the Mau Forest, the largest virgin montane forests of Africa, faces huge pressures from population growth. It' ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2015 - 6:17pm

World Biodiversity Day: Wetlands, Biodiversity And The Role Of Earth Observations

It is somehow ingrained in my body, I think. The appreciation of biodiversity. I know I love wetlands, growing up by a lake (mostly in it as a child) as I did. It turns out that parts of that lake are so-called Ramsar wetlands of international importance. ...

Article - Bente Lilja Bye - May 22 2015 - 11:56am

Savannahs Slow Climate Change

Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth's lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a glo ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2015 - 8:16am

Southern Western Australia Wheat Belt Also Means Acid Saline Groundwaters

The "wheat belt" and "gold fields" of southern Western Australia are associated with a regional acid saline groundwater system. Groundwaters hosted in the Yilgarn Craton there have pH levels as low as 2.4 and salinities as high as 28%, ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2015 - 11:12am

Fish Declines Linked To Effects Of Excess Nutrients On Coastal Estuaries

A comprehensive study of a major California estuary has documented the links between nutrient runoff from coastal land use, the health of the estuary as a nursery for young fish, and the abundance of fish in an offshore commercial fishery. The study focus ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2015 - 9:30am

10 Reasons Health And Fitness Experts Are Thankful For GMOs

As the founder of Fitness Reloaded, a health and fitness company the most common questions I’ve received through the years is about food. Should we eat this or that? Vegetarian or Paleo? GMOs safe or not? And what about superfoods? I always dodged the eat ...

Article - Genetic Literacy ... - Jun 9 2015 - 8:00am