Environment

The Difficult Task Of Saving The Iberian Lynx – A New Proposal

The Iberian Lynx is now the most endangered cat in the world with only about 160 animals remaining in the wild and, despite extensive research and millions of Euros spent in decades of protection, nothing seems capable to stop this decline. ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Dec 14 2008 - 7:16pm

Climate Change- Where A Goose Egg Can Be A Good Thing

It's a bad thing in sports, but a goose egg in a warming Arctic could be a good thing- for polar bears.   New calculations show that changes in the timing of sea-ice breakup and of snow goose nesting near the western Hudson Bay could provide at least ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2008 - 10:52am

Ski Resorts Sound The Alarm Over Climate Change And Celebrity Jets

Rocky Mountain ski areas face dramatic changes this century as the climate warms, says a new Colorado study. The study indicates snowlines-- elevations below which seasonal snowpack will not develop-- will continue to rise through this century, moving up m ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2008 - 11:18pm

Climate Change Implicated In Ecosystem Changes Of Temperate Lakes

Unparalleled warming over the last few decades has triggered widespread ecosystem changes in many temperate North American and Western European lakes, say researchers at Queen's University and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. The team reports ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2008 - 3:15pm

Cosmic Rays Not The Source Of Global Warming- Study

It is sometimes claimed that changes in radiation from space, so-called galactic cosmic rays, can be one of the causes of global warming. A new study, investigating the effect of cosmic rays on clouds, says that the likelihood of this is very small.  The s ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2008 - 10:32am

Marine Microecosystem: Shedding Light On The Base Of The Food Chain

Effects of climate change and global warming, although currently shrouded in mystery may soon be more clearly explained thanks to a new microbial ecosystem model built by researchers at MIT. The study is based on microscopic ‘planktonic’ marine organisms, ...

Article - Erin Richards - Dec 23 2008 - 4:10pm

Reforestation Due To Climate Change Started Little Ice Age- Study

When most people think of climate change, they think of it as another term for global warming.  But climate change replaced global warming as a term because the warming has never been global and  it wasn't just warming that impacted human civilization ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2008 - 10:34am

Evolution And Conservation In Mexican Dry Forests

Bursera simaruba has always been one of my favourite tree species. It’s a dry-season deciduous tree with compound leaves and a coppery peeling outer bark and a green (presumably photosynthetic) inner bark.  It’s a conspicuous element of tropical dry fores ...

Article - Ian Ramjohn - Dec 20 2008 - 12:18am

Climate Shifts May Occur Faster Than Projections

We haven't always been warming.  The circle of climate change has made 90% of the planet's history ice ages and many of those swings were sudden and dramatic.  And it could happen that way again, within decades, says a new government report. It c ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 20 2008 - 12:55am

Firelogs Vs. Wood Fires- What's The Right Choice For A Cozy Winter Fire?

The winter chill is upon us, and holiday songs put us all in the mood to snuggle by a warm fire with our loved ones... but in this new "environmental age", what should we be using to fuel our roaring fires?  Tradition generates images in our mind ...

Article - Kimberly Crandell - Dec 24 2008 - 2:36pm