October 31, 2008 – 1:37 am
ScienceDaily (Oct. 29, 2008) — Frogs and salamanders, those amphibious bellwethers of environmental danger, are being killed in Yellowstone National Park. The predator, Stanford researchers say, is global warming.
Biology graduate student Sarah McMenamin spent three summers in a remote area of the park searching for frogs and salamanders in ponds that had been surveyed 15 [...]
October 30, 2008 – 12:48 am
ScienceDaily (Oct. 29, 2008) — Current models of global climate change predict warmer temperatures will increase the rate that bacteria and other microbes decompose soil organic matter, a scenario that pumps even more heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere. But a new study led by a University of Georgia researcher shows that while the rate of [...]
October 28, 2008 – 12:01 am
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Many cancer-causing toxins from vinyl manufacturers remain unregulated
October 22, 2008
Washington, DC – Citizens in communities affected by cancer-causing air pollution from vinyl manufacturers went to court today to ask the federal government to regulate the host of toxins released from these plants.
The nonprofit public interest law firm Earthjustice filed the lawsuit today in federal district court in [...]
October 27, 2008 – 12:01 am
ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2008) — An international team of scientists has discovered microscopic, magnetic fossils resembling spears and spindles, unlike anything previously seen, among sediment layers deposited during an ancient global-warming event along the Atlantic coastal plain of the United States.
The researchers, led by geobiologists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and McGill University, [...]
October 26, 2008 – 12:03 am
ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2008) — A powerful greenhouse gas is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than previously estimated, according to a team of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
Using new analytical techniques, a team led by Scripps geochemistry professor Ray Weiss made the first atmospheric measurements of [...]
October 25, 2008 – 3:53 am
Lawsuit charges illegal delays in cleaning up parks’ haze pollution
October 21, 2008
Washington, DC — As autumn foliage season reaches its peak, clean air advocates are going to court to make sure visitors to national parks can enjoy scenic vistas free of the yellowish haze caused by industrial pollution. The nonprofit environmental law firm Earthjustice filed [...]
October 24, 2008 – 12:35 am
ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2008) — Scientists in Italy are reporting that a new process could eliminate key obstacles to expanded use of coal gasification to transform that abundant domestic energy resource into synthetic liquid fuels for cars and trucks.
In the study, Maria Sudiro and colleagues note that coal is the only conventional energy source with [...]
October 22, 2008 – 12:24 am
ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2008) — Diatoms, mighty microscopic algae, have profound influence on climate, producing 20 percent of the oxygen we breathe by capturing atmospheric carbon and in so doing, countering the greenhouse effect. Since their evolutionary origins these photosynthetic wonders have come to acquire advantageous genes from bacterial, animal and plant ancestors enabling them [...]
October 21, 2008 – 2:56 am
ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2008) — New varieties of sugarcane and other crops adapted to the U.S. Gulf Coast region are being developed for use in making ethanol as a cleaner-burning alternative to gasoline.Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, in cooperation with the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station (LAES) and the American Sugar Cane League, USA (ASCL), have [...]
October 20, 2008 – 12:05 am
ScienceDaily (Oct. 19, 2008) — Global warming is causing major shifts in the range of small mammals in Yosemite National Park, one of the nation’s treasures that was set aside as a public trust 144 years ago, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.
The study, published in the Oct. 10 issue [...]
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