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Study Shows Climate Change Drives Ecological Shifts

While Earth has experienced numerous changes in climate over the past 65 million years, recent decades have experienced the most significant climate change since the beginning of human civilized societies about 5,000 years ago

9 Nov 2008

Forests, Biodiversity and the Intrusion of Humans

The forest is managed and used by humans to produce energy, build, regulate certain ecological processes (floods, erosion), provide recreational areas, etc. It is also an important reservoir for biological diversity, a key element in tomorrow's forest productivity

9 Nov 2008

Making Diesel Using a Rainforest Fungus

Making Diesel Using a Rainforest Fungus

A unique fungus that makes diesel compounds has been discovered living in trees in the rainforest

3 Nov 2008

Wild Caught Fish Being Wasted as Food for Pigs and Chickens

Wild Caught Fish Being Wasted as Food for Pigs and Chickens

An alarming new study to be published in November in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources finds that one-third of the world’s marine fish catches are ground up and fed to farm-raised fish, pigs, and poultry, squandering a precious food resource for humans and disregarding the serious overfishing crisis in our oceans

30 Oct 2008

Bacteria and Microbes in Soil Shown to Pump Carbon into the Atmosphere

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

28 Oct 2008

Amphibians Shown to be Good Indicators of Biodiversity and Climate Change

Amphibians Shown to be Good Indicators of Biodiversity and Climate Change

Biologists have long suspected that amphibians, whose moist permeable skins make them susceptible to slight changes in the environment, might be good bellwethers for impending alterations in biodiversity during rapid climate change

28 Oct 2008

Roads Mean Death to Endangered Forest Elephants

Roads Mean Death to Endangered Forest Elephants

A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Save the Elephants that says endangered forest elephants are avoiding roadways at all costs

28 Oct 2008

Earthworms Alter the Way Forests Hold Carbon

Earthworms Alter the Way Forests Hold Carbon

Earthworms can change the chemical nature of the carbon in North American forest litter and soils, potentially affecting the amount of carbon stored in forests, according to Purdue University researchers

27 Oct 2008

USDA Releases New Organic 'Pasture Rule' for Organic Milk Producing Dairy Farms

USDA Releases New Organic 'Pasture Rule' for Organic Milk Producing Dairy Farms

After eight years of intense scrutiny and criticism the USDA has published a proposed amendment to the federal organic regulations intended to address abuses by "factory farms," milking thousands of cows each, and masquerading as organic

27 Oct 2008

McDonald's Names Pork Supplier As Their First Ever Supplier Sustainability Award Winner

McDonald's Names Pork Supplier As Their First Ever Supplier Sustainability Award Winner

McDonald's USA recently recognized Smithfield Foods, Inc., a pork supplier for the McDonald's system, with the first-ever Sustainability Award during the McDonald's 2008 Supplier Summit

23 Oct 2008

MAX-iR FTIR Gas Analyzer for Ambient Air Monitoring

MAX-iR FTIR Gas Analyzer for Ambient Air Monitoring

This product profile summarizes the MAX-iR FTIR Gas Analyzer from Thermo Fisher Scientific.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific – Environmental and Process Monitoring Instruments

Geopyc 1365: Measuring the Envelope Density of Formed Pieces

Geopyc 1365: Measuring the Envelope Density of Formed Pieces

The GeoPyc 1365 measured the envelope density of formed pieces without the use of hazardous materials.

From Micromeritics Instrument Corporation

ElectroGreen™–Xylene Substitute for Electronics

ElectroGreen™–Xylene Substitute for Electronics

This product profile describes the features and applications of the ElectroGreen™–Xylene substitute for electronics.

From Merck KGaA

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