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Researchers Link Autism With Rain

The American Medical Association journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has published a new study by researchers at Cornell University indicating evidence of an environmental trigger for autism among genetically vulnerable children

10 Nov 2008

Scientific Community Asked to Resolve Debate on Net Energy

Net energy is a metric by which some scientists attempt to assess the sustainability and ability of alternative fuels to displace fossil fuel but recent debate in Biofpr shows that scientists are undecided on its merits as a tool

9 Nov 2008

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

Climate Change Causing Long Lasting and Profound Changes to Fish

Fishermen believe that the fish caught today are no longer the same as before. New species living in warm or Southern waters, such as spirlin and the common bitterling, are gradually replacing the traditionally fished species

9 Nov 2008

Wine Industry Set to Embrace Sustainability

There is a unique opportunity in South Africa this week for the wine industry to engage with the conservation community and put sustainability on the global wine agenda

5 Nov 2008

Spruce Forest Mushrooms Slowing Climate Change in Northern Forests

The fight against climate warming has an unexpected ally in mushrooms growing in dry spruce forests covering Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and other northern regions, a new University of California, Irvine study finds

3 Nov 2008

Researcher Finds Boom and Bust Cycles in Ecology, Plants and Animal Populations

The natural world behaves a lot like the stock market, with periods of relative stability interspersed with dramatic swings in population size and competition between individuals and species

3 Nov 2008

African Nations Can Turn Resource Demand Driving Deforestation into Successful Sustainability

African nations could turn the demand for their natural resources currently driving deforestation and other destruction into a force for higher returns from sustainable development, WWF has said

2 Nov 2008

Living Fossil Tree Shows Scientists How Rain Forests Respond to Climate Change

A "living fossil" tree species is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the future

2 Nov 2008