Environment

Hope Or Hype? 'Green Collar' Job Growth

During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama suggested his economic plan would create 5 million jobs in environmental industries- easy enough to do when taxpayers are subsidizing even more federal workers but will these so-called "green collar" ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2008 - 11:20am

The Results Are In, Says The Wildlife Conservation Society, And You Love... Buffalo?

The American bison(buffalo) is in trouble, says a survey by the Wildlife Conservation Society, though there are many more of them now than there were a hundred years ago, and we love them- as a symbol of the old West and occasionally to eat, so something ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2008 - 9:58pm

Sometimes A Lack Of Radioactivity Is A Bad Thing

When Ohio State glaciologists failed to find the expected radioactive signals in the latest core they drilled from a Himalayan ice field, they knew it meant trouble for their research.   Those missing markers of radiation, remnants from atomic bomb tests a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2008 - 3:37pm

Global Warming Projections Overestimated, Says Black Carbon Study

A detailed analysis of black carbon, the residue of burned organic matter,  in computer climate models suggests they may be overestimating global warming predictions.  A new Cornell study in Nature Geosciences quantified the amount of black carbon in Austr ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2008 - 11:38am

Urban Trees Enhance Hydrologic Cycle And Water Infiltration

Global land use patterns and increasing pressures on water resources demand creative urban stormwater management. Traditional stormwater management focuses on regulating the flow of runoff to waterways, but generally does little to restore the hydrologic c ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2008 - 12:15pm

What Goes Into Making An Herbicide?

Imagine you have two plants- one is a plant you'd like to keep around, like a crop, and the other is a pest of some kind that interferes with the growth of your crop. Now, imagine synthesizing 30,000 different candidates for an herbicide and spraying ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Nov 20 2008 - 5:03pm

Soil More At Risk From Climate Change Than Air Is

New research says that we should be looking to the ground, not the sky, to see where climate change could have its most perilous impact on life on Earth.  Scientists at the University of Toronto Scarborough have published research findings in Nature Geosci ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2008 - 3:42pm

A 'Green' Great Wall Of China Could Reduce Environmental Disasters There

A study published in Journal of the American Water Resources Association states that the "Green Great Wall," a forest shelterbelt project in northern China running nearly parallel to the Great Wall, is likely to improve climatic and hydrological ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2008 - 5:05pm

Seymour Aquifer Nitrogen May Be A Real Boost For Farmers

Drs. John Sij, Cristine Morgan and Paul DeLaune have studied nitrate levels in irrigation water from the Seymour Aquifer for the past three years, and have found nitrates can be as high as 40 parts per million. Though unacceptable for drinking, the water w ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2008 - 5:11pm

Prehistoric Global Warming May Predict The Future Too

A reconstruction of an extreme warm period shows the sensitivity of the climate system to changes in carbon dioxide (CO 2) levels as well as the strong influence of ocean temperatures, heat transport from equatorial regions, and greenhouse gases on Earth& ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2008 - 5:18pm