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Global Warming Could be Similar Across Ecosystems
The impact of global warming could be similar across ecosystems, regardless of local environmental conditions and species.
A team from Queen Mary’s School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, which went to Iceland to study a set of geothermally-heated...
Recycling CFLs Keeps Mercury from Environment
In response to Horatio Couture’s letter, “Mercury hazards of CFLs, the green energy bulbs,” published Jan. 12, the Natural Resources Council of Maine has worked for decades to prevent toxic pollution. This includes mercury...
Soil Decontamination to Cost NIS 9b
“The cost of decontaminating soil over one or two decades is NIS 9 billion. Our goal is not to undermine the Israeli production market and economy, and it never will be. We think that a sustainable industry operates with social and environmental...
Our Impact on Environment Hotly Debated
The average Canadian spews about 20 tonnes of greenhouse gases annually compared to about four tonnes from China, one tonne from India, and 0.1 tonnes from an African.
The sustainable level of emissions for a stable climate is about one tonne...
Biodiversity Conservation Information
Biodiversity is a modern term which simply means ” the variety of life on earth”. This variety can be measured on several different levels.
Genetic – variation between individuals of the same species. This includes genetic...
Glacial Melting May Release Pollutants Into The Environment
Those pristine-looking Alpine glaciers now melting as global warming sets in may explain the mysterious increase in persistent organic pollutants in sediment from certain lakes since the 1990s, despite decreased use of those compounds in pesticides,...
Tropical Regions To Be Hardest Hit By Fisheries Shifts Caused By Climate Change
Major shifts in fisheries distribution due to climate change will affect food security in tropical regions most adversely, according to a study led by the Sea Around Us Project at The University of British Columbia.
In the first major study...
Saving Forests Five Times Better Than Carbon Capture for Climate Action
WWF Sweden is urging its government – holding the current EU Presidency – to get behind an effective international agreement on halting forest loss as a key and highly cost effective measure on climate change.
“Sweden should follow...
Mobiles Could Be Harming Crops Too
Mobile phones have grabbed the headlines for a number of unpleasant reasons, from allegations of causing brain tumours to blowing up petrol bunks.
Now a study by the Punjab University says mobile phones can cause crop damage too.
A recent study...
Tree Cheers For Our Environment?
Nature can be the biggest ally in our fight against climate change, that’s the simple idea behind the UN programme for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD). Between 2000-07, natural sinks...