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Satellite Imaging of Light Pollution Being Used to Identify Threatened Coral Reefs

Researchers are using satellite images of lights at night to identify the most threatened and most pristine coral reefs in an objective and easily repeatable way

24 Nov 2008

Lead Levels in Christmas Lights Found to be Dangerously High

New Research shows that Christmas light sets contain such high levels of lead that they exceed limits set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

24 Nov 2008

Understanding Why Maple Leaves Change Colour May Give Tourism Protection Against Climate Change

Two University of Vermont research groups are asking: why do leaves go red? The ecology and mechanisms are still unknown. The question has economic urgency since climate change may make New England's bright leaf season go dull, drying up the flow of tourists and their wallets

23 Nov 2008

Alien Worms Threaten to Destroy Forests

Forests that evolved without native earthworms now face the invasion of European earthworms from agriculture and fishing. Ripple effects could include carbon sequestration and climate change

23 Nov 2008

Earthwatch Ramps up Climate Change Efforts

Earthwatch has released updates to 3 recent initiatives to fight climate change, its Beat the Heat Climate Change Campaign, Live from the Field teacher program and a new element to the HSBC Climate Partnership - designed to implement sustainable practices in businesses and local communities

23 Nov 2008

NASA Studies Lakes as Global Warming Hot Spots

Through a NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)-funded expedition, 17 researchers are studying high-altitude lakes in Chile and Bolivia hoping to find conditions relative to what was on Mars 3.5 billion years ago

23 Nov 2008

Students Return to a Greener UC San Diego

More than 28,500 students who came back to UC San Diego this year found a campus that is getting greener every day, as the university solidifies its position as a leader in sustainability among the nation’s higher education institutions

23 Nov 2008

Scientists Discover Life Where it Was Not Known Before, Under the Antarctic and in Salt Lakes

At a 'Frontiers of Science' meeting, scientists described apparently productive ecosystems in two places where life was not known before, under the Antarctic ice sheet, and above concentrated salt lakes beneath the Mediterranean

17 Nov 2008

Urban Biodiversity Promoted by Small Patches of Habitat

Sets of small and seemingly insignificant habitat patches that are within reach for mobile species may under certain circumstances, as a group, provide an acceptable alternative to larger and contiguous habitats

16 Nov 2008

Wetland Ecosystems Being Conserved With the Help of Satellite Observations

ESA carried out the GlobWetland project from 2003 to 2008 in order to demonstrate how employing satellite data can support the inventorying, monitoring and assessing of wetland ecosystems

16 Nov 2008