Environment

Carbon Credit Idea Being Unfairly Targeted, Says Advocacy Group

Take out carbon credit politics and misplaced technical concerns, says the World Agroforestry Center, and existing technology that could effectively monitor carbon storage in developing country landscapes could save more carbon than closing 1,400 coal-bur ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2008 - 12:16am

Snowball Earth Hypothesis Contradicted By CO2 Research

Earth's present day greenhouse scourge, carbon dioxide, may have played a vital role in helping ancient Earth to escape from complete glaciation, say scientists in a paper published online today. In their review for Nature Geoscience, UK scientists cl ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 1 2008 - 12:34pm

No Acorns? Apocalypse?

Squirrels are also facing an economic crisis.  Apparently, acorns are disappearing all over the country...or at least on the East Coast.  I know some fellow turkey hunters on the East Coast have reported a very spotty acorn crop.  Supposedly it's not ...

Article - Justin Gerke - Jan 17 2009 - 2:20am

Evading Tomato's Defenses, Bacteria Speck Disease Invades

How a bacterium overcomes a tomato plant's defenses and causes disease, by sneakily disabling the plant's intruder detection systems, is revealed in new research published in the December issue of Current Biology. The new study focuses on a patho ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2009 - 10:39pm

Laying Out Options For Forestation-Related Climate Change

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) today released a comprehensive analysis clarifying major challenges and offering an assortment of options that could help negotiators reach a global agreement on reducing carbon emissions tied to fore ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2008 - 9:32am

Climate Change Made (And Broke) Empires

The decline of the Roman and Byzantine Empires in the Eastern Mediterranean more than 1,400 years ago may have been driven by unfavorable climate changes. Based on chemical signatures in a piece of calcite from a cave near Jerusalem, a team of American and ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2008 - 5:19pm

Droughts In Asia Aggravating Global Warming

In the rainforests of equatorial Asia, a link between drought and deforestation is fueling global warming, finds an international study that includes a UC Irvine scientist. The study, analyzing six years of climate and fire observations from satellites, sh ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2008 - 5:43pm

Tree Carbon Calculator- Now Californians Can Measure The Carbon Storage Of Trees In Their Back Yard

U.S. Forest Service scientists at the Center for Urban Forest Research are providing online software that can show users how much carbon dioxide an urban tree in California has sequestered in its lifetime and the past year.   The Tree Carbon Calculator is ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2008 - 9:57pm

Ocean Calcium Cycle Is More Fragile Than Expected- And Climate Change Is Getting The Blame

Researchers have discovered that the ocean's chemical makeup is less stable and more greatly affected by climate change than previously believed. The researchers report in Science that during a time of climate change 13 million years ago the chemical ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2008 - 12:40am

Climate Change Hurting Acid Rain Recovery- Study

It's the age-old conundrum for potential Prius owners- emit CO2 and cause global warming using combustion engines or pollute the ground and water with acid rain due to batteries.   Climate scientists at Cardiff have found a way to stop having the envi ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2008 - 9:44am