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Greenhouse Gas Reduction Will Need Long Term Strategy

Carbon dioxide will continue to rise even if current national and international targets for reducing emissions are met, scientists warn

30 Oct 2008

Australian Researchers Show CO2 Emissions Will Increase Ocean Acidification and Damage Coral Reefs

Rising carbon dioxide levels in the world's oceans could deliver a disastrous blow to the ability of coral reefs to withstand climate change

29 Oct 2008

Bacteria and Microbes in Soil Shown to Pump Carbon into the Atmosphere

Current models of global climate change predict warmer temperatures will increase the rate that bacteria and other microbes decompose soil organic matter, a scenario that pumps even more heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere

28 Oct 2008

Amphibians Shown to be Good Indicators of Biodiversity and Climate Change

Biologists have long suspected that amphibians, whose moist permeable skins make them susceptible to slight changes in the environment, might be good bellwethers for impending alterations in biodiversity during rapid climate change

28 Oct 2008

Global Warming Causes Devastating Effect on Coral and Fish

Research work reported on recently by an international research team1, including an IRD scientist, brought out evidence of the impact on the fish communities of a mass bleaching event resulting from the 1997-1998 El Niño climatic episode

28 Oct 2008

PANalytical Thanked for Sponsoring Environmental Education Program

PANalytical is pleased to report that two students, Barbara Terlouw and Robin van der Bles, have completed a week-long expedition to Spitsbergen, Norway. The company sponsored this environmental program as part of its ongoing support of activities that stimulate interest in the sciences

28 Oct 2008

Earthworms Alter the Way Forests Hold Carbon

Earthworms can change the chemical nature of the carbon in North American forest litter and soils, potentially affecting the amount of carbon stored in forests, according to Purdue University researchers

27 Oct 2008

Green House Gas, Nitrogen Trifluoride, Much More Prevalent in Atmosphere Than Expected

Compound used in manufacture of flat panel televisions, computer displays, microcircuits, solar panels is 17,000 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide

23 Oct 2008

BLADE Improving Fuel Economy and Reducing Emissions at the Tailpipe

BLADE is a breakthrough emissions reduction technology soon to become a fixture on the tailpipe of every car and light duty truck

23 Oct 2008

High Schoolers Testing Water Quality in New York Area

Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries and Clarkson University have been awarded $1.4 million from the NSF to expand a program that will teach 9,000 New York high schoolers to design, build, test, deploy and interpret environmental sensors to monitor water quality in the Hudson and St. Lawrence

23 Oct 2008