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What We Do in Our Yards Often Affects Our Neighbors and the Environment

Lush beautiful lawns are a part of summer, but they require time and money. The average lawn requires up to 40 hours of work and costs about $700 each year to maintain. But did you know that your yard and how you take care of it can help the environment?

15 Aug 2008

Threats to Marine Ecosystems from Climate Change Must be Addressed to Halt Downward Trends

Human activities are cumulatively driving the health of the world's oceans down a rapid spiral, and only prompt and wholesale changes will slow or perhaps ultimately reverse the catastrophic problems they are facing.

14 Aug 2008

Scientists Rethinking Soot's Role in Shaping Earth's Climate

Tons of soot are released into the air annually as forest fires rage from California to the Amazon to Siberia and Indonesia. Climate scientists have generally assumed that the main effect of smoke on climate is cooling, as the floating particles can reflect some solar energy back to space as well as increasing cloud size and lifespan. But new research by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science; the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC); and NASA may cause them to rethink soot's role in shaping the Earth's climate.

14 Aug 2008

Beat The Heat Climate Change Campaign Kicked off by Earthwatch Institute

Earthwatch Institute is kicking off a two-month regional campaign to support global climate change research at Boston’s Museum of Science this Thursday evening. The Climate Change Campaign - a “first” for Earthwatch—runs from August 14-October 14, 2008

14 Aug 2008

Climate Change Alters Growing Conditions in Many Regions of the World

One in five of Germany's plant species could lose parts of its current range, a study by scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the French Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine reveals.

13 Aug 2008

New Results Suggests Global Warming will do Little to Change Hurricane Activity

In a study published in the July 2008 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, Drs. David S. Nolan and Eric D. Rappin from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science describe a new method for evaluating the frequency of hurricane formation in present and future tropical climates.

12 Aug 2008

Birds in the US Moving Breeding Grounds North, Climate Change May Be to Blame

Birds in the Northeastern United States are moving their breeding ranges north, adding to concerns about the planet's changing climate

10 Aug 2008

Researchers Make Breakthrough in Understanding Climate Change and Forecasting Global Warming

Arizona State University researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the effect on climate change of a key component of urban pollution. The discovery could lead to more accurate forecasting of possible global-warming activity

7 Aug 2008

Cleaner and Greener Chemicals to be Developed by New Partnership

A new research initiative, bringing together the UK's main public funder of bioscience research with 10 companies, has been launched today to accelerate development of technologies required for the sustainable production of chemicals through biorefining

6 Aug 2008