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NASA Website Shows the Impact of Fires and Smoke on Earth's Climate and Ecosystems

NASA satellites, aircraft, and research know-how have created a wealth of cutting-edge tools to help firefighters battle wildfires. These tools also have helped scientists understand the impact of fires and smoke on Earth's climate and ecosystems. Now, a new NASA Web site brings to the public and journalists the latest information about this ongoing effort

22 Jul 2008

Ecologists Call for Natural Forests and Biodiversity to be Preserved in Growth of Biofuel Demands

Rising demand for palm oil will decimate biodiversity unless producers and politicians can work together to preserve as much remaining natural forest as possible, ecologists have warned

9 Jul 2008

Penguin Populations Being Effected by Global Warming, Fishing and Petroleum Pollution Causing Lower Breeding Success

The ecology of penguins makes these iconic swimming and diving seabirds of the Southern Hemisphere unusually susceptible to environmental changes. Pronounced warming in the Antarctic, as well as commercial fishing, mining, and oil and gas development at lower latitudes, has led to declines in many species

1 Jul 2008

MIT and Bosch For Energy Research Collaboration to Explore New Materials and Energy Efficient Conversion and Storage

As part of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), MIT and Bosch, a leading global supplier of technology and services, are forming an energy research collaboration aimed at exploring new materials and concepts for efficient energy-conversion and energy-storage systems

24 Jun 2008

Government Report Says Climate Change Is Behind Extreme Weather Events

Climate change is altering the frequency and severity of many extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts and hurricanes, according to a government report

24 Jun 2008

Researcher Makes Climate Change Discovery

A team of researchers led by a first-year UC Davis faculty member has resolved a longstanding paradox in the plant world, which should lead to far more accurate predictions of global climate change

18 Jun 2008

Environmental Nitrogen Cycles May Determine how Ecosystems Respond to Global Warming

Trees capable of extracting nitrogen directly from the atmosphere often thrive where it is readily available in the soil, but not where it is in short supply. Now scientists from the Carnegie Institution have explained the paradox by recognizing the role of two other factors: temperature and the abundance of another key element, phosphorous

18 Jun 2008