|
 
In forests, past disturbances obscure warming impactsMillbrook NY (SPX) Mar 08, 2012 Past disturbances, such as logging, can obscure the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems. So reports a study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper, exploring nitrogen dynamics, found that untangling climate impacts from other factors can be difficult, even when scientists have access to decades of data on a forest's environmental conditions. Co-author Dr. Gene E. Likens of the Cary Institute comments, "Understanding how climate change is shaping ... read more |
. |
  |
| Buy Advertising | Media Advertising Kit | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
|
Free Newsletters - Delivered Daily Via Email - Space - War - Terra - Energy |
| .. |
 Study shows earthworms to blame for decline of ovenbirds in northern Midwest forests A recent decline in ovenbirds (Seiurus aurocapilla), a ground-nesting migratory songbird, in forests in the northern Midwest United States is being linked by scientists to a seemingly unlikely culpr ... more | .. |
  GIS siting of emergency vehicles improves response time In an emergency, minutes matter. With this knowledge, University of Georgia researchers developed a new method for determining where emergency vehicle stations should be located. The results of thei ... more | .. |
 Protecting living fossil trees Scientists are working to protect living fossil trees in Fiji from the impact of climate change with cutting-edge DNA sequencing technology. Dr Peter Prentis, from QUT's Science and Engineering Facu ... more | .. |
 |
|
| .. |
  Lockheed Martin and ZyGEM To Offer Rapid DNA Analysis Platform for Human Identity Testing Lockheed Martin and ZyGEM announced plans to release a version of their rapid DNA analysis platform that is designed to simplify and speed DNA analysis for human identity testing. Pre-producti ... more | .. |
 Oldest fossilized forest revealed An international team, including a Cardiff University researcher, who previously found evidence of the Earth's earliest tree, has gone one step further. The research team has now unearthed and inves ... more | .. |
 Researchers harness Kraken to model explosions via transport First, the bad news: all across America, trucks and tractor-trailers are transporting industrial explosives on nearly every artery of the country's interstate and highway system. That's right, volat ... more | .. |
 First Evidence of Hunting by Prehistoric Ohioans Cut marks found on Ice Age bones indicate that humans in Ohio hunted or scavenged animal meat earlier than previously known. Dr. Brian Redmond, curator of archaeology at The Cleveland Museum of Natu ... more |
|
Free Newsletters - Delivered Daily Via Email - Space - War - Terra - Energy |
| . | . | . | . |
  
Trump signs orders to boost US nuclear energy
Anthropic's Claude AI gets smarter -- and mischievious
Suriname president vows oil bonanza won't hit carbon-negative status | .. |
 Sturdy Scandinavian conifers survived Ice Age Until now, it was presumed that the last glacial period denuded the Scandinavian landscape of trees until a gradual return of milder weather began and melted away the ice cover some 9000 years ago. ... more | .. |
 One Year after Fukushima The Fukushima disaster happened one year ago - the impacts are not over yet, neither in Japan nor in Germany. Immediately after the reactor accident became known, KIT established working groups that ... more | .. |
  Campaign to arrest Uganda rebel chief goes viral A campaign to bring accused war criminal Joseph Kony, the fugitive head of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels, to justice has gone viral on the Internet. ... more | .. |
  Water shortage a global threat without urgent reform: OECD Urgent reforms to raise efficiency in the way water is used around the world are needed to avert serious shortages in the next decades, and markets in water can help, the OECD said on Wednesday. ... more |
| .. |
 Brazil's Rousseff urged to veto new forestry code Environmentalists and small farmers marched outside the National Congress Wednesday to urge President Dilma Rousseff to veto changes to the country's forestry code they fear will accelerate deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. ... more | .. |
  Niger rare giraffe population makes a comeback The last West African giraffes, now living in the wild only in southwestern Niger, are making a comeback with numbers standing at 310 last year, the environment ministry said here Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Small US trial looks at body's ability to fight HIV A new approach to coaxing the body to fight HIV without antiretroviral drugs has shown some success in almost half the patients enrolled in a small study, US researchers said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Poland to nix EU's 2050 climate targets: report Poland is threatening to veto European Union 2050 targets for emissions reductions at a Friday meeting of the bloc's environment ministers in Brussels, a Polish media report said Wednesday. ... more |
| . | . | . | . |
| Buy Advertising | Media Advertising Kit | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
|
Free Newsletters - Delivered Daily Via Email - Space - War - Terra - Energy |
 
Russia strikes Kyiv after first stage of major prisoner swap
Growing Arctic military presence worries Finland's reindeer herders
South Korea says concerned by China's 'no-sail zone' in overlapping waters | .. |
 Thai PM in Japan vows no more flood chaos Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday pledged floods would never again disrupt business in the kingdom as she sought to reassure investors during a trip to Japan. ... more | .. |
  Moon to blame for sinking of Titanic? While no one denies an iceberg sank the liner Titanic 100 year ago, there may have been another culprit that put it there, U.S. scientists say - the moon. ... more | .. |
  Chinese governor lauds clamp down on birth agents China has fulfilled a promise to curb the number of pregnant mainlanders entering Hong Kong to give birth, the governor of southern Guangdong province said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Santorum stirs love and loathing on US campaign trail Of the handful of candidates left in the rollercoaster Republican presidential race, Rick Santorum seems to stir more emotions than most with his radical views on religion, women and marriage. ... more |
| .. |
 Rebel China village revolution unlikely to spread Residents of a Chinese village who voted for new leaders in weekend elections after rising up against corrupt officials are hoping they will become a model of democracy in the one-party state. ... more | .. |
  Hundreds more evacuated in Australia floods Hundreds more people were evacuated Wednesday in Australia's flood-hit southeast, as residents of the city of Wagga Wagga breathed a sigh of relief after a levee on the Murrumbidgee River held firm. ... more | .. |
  Doctor looks to China for spinal injury 'cure' One of the world's leading researchers into spinal cord injuries says China could hold the key to a cure that he has been searching for since he met late actor Christopher Reeve in the 1990s. ... more | .. |
  Canadian farmers trust regulated dairy industry Canada's response to the "milk wars" in the United States in the 1970s was to establish a supply management system that both protects and restricts the income of its dairy farmers. A University of I ... more |
| . | . | . | . |
| Buy Advertising | Media Advertising Kit | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
|
Free Newsletters - Delivered Daily Via Email - Space - War - Terra - Energy |
 
After two setbacks, SpaceX could try to launch massive Starship next week
Doubt cast on claim of 'hints' of life on faraway planet
S.Africa moves to ease black empowerment law under Starlink pressure | .. |
 A Vegetarian Cutlet It looks like a cutlet, it's juicy and fibrous like a cutlet, and it even chews with the consistency of a real cutlet - but the ingredients are 100 percent vegetable. Researchers are using a new met ... more | .. |
 How to improve pesticide efficiency In 2007, a controversial pesticide was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use on fruit and vegetable crops, mainly in California and Florida. Farm workers and scientists protested the ... more | .. |
 Should we play hide-and-go-seek with our children's vegetables? Pass the peas please! How often do we hear our children say this? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey of adolescents, only 21 ... more | .. |
 Indigenous Peoples Offer Lessons On Conserving And Managing Plant Biodiversity Humans are frequently blamed for deforestation and the destruction of environments, yet there are also examples of peoples and cultures around the world that have learned to manage and conserve the ... more |
| .. |
 Heavy metal pollution causes severe declines in wild bees Wild bees are important pollinators and numerous studies dealing with pollination of wild plants and crops underline their vital role in ecosystems functioning. While honey bees can be easily ... more | .. |
 Algerian Islamists set to score in polls Newly legalized Islamic parties in Algeria, which fought a savage war with Muslim fundamentalists throughout the 1990s, are likely to score heavily in parliamentary elections scheduled for May. ... more | .. |
 Finland: Refugees face spying threats Foreign governments and groups are carrying out more spying on refugees and dissidents living in Finland, the country's security intelligence service says. ... more | .. |
 Shortcuts costly when buying conservation from farmers Farmers in the U.S. and the European Union receive billions of dollars in government subsidies each year to make changes in their operations that will improve the environment. However, a new study b ... more |
| Previous Issues | Mar 07 | Mar 06 | Mar 05 | Mar 04 | Mar 03 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2012 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement |
|
Free Newsletters - Delivered Daily Via Email - Space - War - Terra - Energy |
| Buy Advertising | Media Advertising Kit | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
