Global climate change will not only impact plants and animals but will also affect bacteria, fungi and other microbial populations that perform a myriad of functions important to life on earth. It is not entirely certain what those effects will be, but they could be significant and will probably not be good, say researchers today at a scientific meeting in Boston.
Ecosystems are constantly exchanging materials through the movement of air in the atmosphere and water in lakes and rivers. The effects of humans, however, are another major source of connections among ecosystems.
Lafarge today announced that its Aggregates SE business unit, based in Douglasville, Georgia, has been named one of only four winners nationwide of the 2008 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental Performance Track award for "environmental achievements above and beyond legal requirements," and the only winner in the Small Facility award category.
As consumers become increasingly mindful of their role in protecting the environment, the demand for new and innovative eco-friendly products and brands has never been stronger.
The researchers posit that the methane was released gradually at first and then in abundance from clathrates – methane ice that forms and stabilizes beneath ice sheets under specific temperatures and pressures. When the ice sheets became unstable, they collapsed, releasing pressure on the clathrates which began to degas.
An abrupt release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from ice sheets that extended to Earth's low latitudes some 635 million years ago caused a dramatic shift in climate, scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) report in this week's issue of the journal Nature.
Plant-eating animals in highly seasonal environments, such as the Arctic, are struggling to locate nutritious food as a result of climate change, according to research that will be published in the 21 May 2008 online edition of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
A new technique that mimics healing processes found in nature could enable damaged aircraft to mend themselves automatically, even during a flight.
From hybrid cars to organic clothing, consumers are greening their lifestyles in a variety of ways, starting right in their own backyard. Nature's Touch, a brand of natural, organic and organic-based fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides, has expanded its line of kid- and pet-friendly products to include organic-based fertilizers for vegetables, flowers and plants.
Five area environmental programs have been named as the winners of the 2008 Western Pennsylvania Environmental Awards, announced today by Dominion and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council.
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