Ecology
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Climate Change Implicated in Decline of Horseshoe Crabs - US News and World Report
www.usnews.com via @neptunecanada &bull YesterdayLEETOWN, W. Va.-A distinct decline in horseshoe crab numbers has occurred that parallels climate change associated with the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study that used genomics to assess historical trends in population sizes. The new research also indicates that horseshoe crabs numbers may continue to decline in the future because of predicted climate change, said Tim King, a scientist… Full Story »
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LLCC Green: Green Building: Jobs of the Future
llccgreencenter.blogspot.com via @LLCCgreencenter &bull YesterdayIf yesterday's post about green jobs still leaves you wondering how exactly "green" applies to the workforce, here's a great video that can help. It was produced by the Washington State Department of Ecology, but it applies just as much… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Green Building
- Ecology
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eScienceCommons: Insiders' guide to Georgia barrier islands
esciencecommons.blogspot.com via @EmoryUniversity &bull YesterdayEspecially in view of global sea level change, barrier islands are almost like the canaries in the coal mine," says Anthony Martin, a paleontologist in Emory's department of environmental studies. Martin researches trace fossils and ecology in the maritime forests,… Full Story »
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Russian government rethinks energy policies - Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk via @TWT_SAVE_ENERGY &bull YesterdayAs BP's share price collapses on the back of environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Russian companies are learning that going clean could bring in the green. Russia uses roughly twice the level of energy that China uses, and six times that of the United States, to produce the same value of goods,… Full Story »
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Green briefs (September 2, 2010)
bhamweekly.com via @MIDAS31 &bull YesterdayGREEN EXPO NOTEBOOK: Yo, Green Spacers. Last week, the BJCC exhibition hall was the site of the Green Building Focus Conference and Expo, one of the largest events of its type in the Southeast, which is hosted by Birmingham firm Green Building Focus. Sustainable building experts, entrepreneurs, academics and politicians gathered from Tuesday through Friday, August 24- 27, to share ideas, trends and technologies. Green building and sustainability have been hot topics in certain circles in the Magic City the last couple of years, driven in part by last year's Green Expo and by a belief among many greenies that… Full Story »
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Felix Whitton's Page - Biodiversity Media Alliance
biodiversitymedia.ning.com via @biodivmedia &bull YesterdayHi all, My organisation, Synchronicity Earth, wants to send me along to Nagoya for the COP10 (mainly to meet people and get a feel for such things). Please use this section to introduce yourself in more detail, adding any other… Full Story »
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MillionTreesNYC, Green infrastructure, and urban ecology: building a research agenda
nrs.fs.fed.us via @MHLUNGUOLUHLAZA &bull YesterdayAuthor: Lu, Jacqueline W.T.; Shane, Megan; Svendsen, Erika; Campbell, Lindsay; Fragola, Cristiana; Krasny, Marianne; Lovasl, Gina; Maddox, David; McDonnell, Simon; McPhearson, P. Timon; Montalto, Franco; Newman, Andrew; Pehek, Ellen; Rae, Ruth A.; Stedman, Richard; Tidball, Keith G.; Westphal, Lynne; Whitlow,… Full Story »
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Geneva talks aim to maintain climate finance momentum
UNFCCC: Climate Change Headlines &bull Yesterday
Environment ministers from over 30 countries will meet in Geneva tomorrow at an informal two-day meeting designed to lay the ground work for a breakthrough climate financing agreement at the up-coming UN summit in Mexico. The meeting is expected to focus on both short term climate financing commitments, such as the pledge to provide $30bn of funding for developing countries over the next three years, and longer term financing mechanisms, such as… Full Story »
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Students opt to study environmental economics
Mahalo &bull YesterdayThe Environmental Economics and Management degree combines courses in environmental economics, natural resource economics, environmental policy, ecology and environmental law. The EEM major was formerly an environmental and resource economics concentration under the umbrella degree Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics.… Full Story »
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The Guardian takes on biodiversity Wild Muse
sciencetrio.wordpress.com via @BoraZ &bull YesterdayMy friend Christine Ottery over at Open Minds and Parachutes asked me more than a week ago to put up an announcement about the Guardian's new international biodiversity campaign and then I got blind-sided by Life and I haven't posted… Full Story »
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Are wolves saving Yellowstone's aspen trees from elk?
www.sciencedaily.com via @Morningglorycof &bull YesterdayBut apparently elk hungry for winter food had a different idea. They did not know they were supposed to be responding to a "landscape of fear." According to a study set to be published in Ecology, a journal of the Ecological Society of America, the fear of wolf predation may not be discouraging elk from eating aspen trees after all. Previous thinking went like this: Aspen are not regenerating well in Yellowstone National Park. Elk eat young aspen. But wolves eat elk. Elk will learn to avoid high-risk areas that wolves frequent. Plants in those areas -- such as aspen… Full Story »
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Five Ways To Keep On Trucking Foley Services Blog
foleyservicesblog.com via @FoleyDOTHelp &bull YesterdayWith the economy still stuttering and the price of fuel unstable at best, these are hard times for the independent truck driver. Across the nation, owner-operators and small family firms are finding their operations are making less money. In an effort to help, here are five great tips for saving money during the tough economic times. Many owner-operators do not realize how much of their expenditure can be claimed as a tax deduction. The Trucker's Report offers a list of items used by truckers that can… Full Story »
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Commercialising Kenya's Biodiversity: Legal Challenges
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Sep 2, 2010Could Kenya generate non-tourism revenues from its biodiversity? In the 1990s, a US-based multinational used extremophile bacteria discovered in Kenya's Lake Bogoria to create an ingredient for the production of a detergent. But even though this detergent went to on make multi-billion dollar sales, Kenya saw no financial or even research benefits from this. Effectively a case of bio-piracy, this highlighted the complex relationship between, and the importance of knowledge, science, intellectual property, technology and industry in bringing products from nature into the market. At the same time, this case also demonstrated the difficulties involved in safeguarding biological material, and… Full Story »
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Learning from American Renewable Energy Day (AREDAY) in Aspen
www.solarenergy.org via @solarenergyintl &bull Sep 1, 2010August marked a strange and chilling event - even the glaciers in Greenland were moving faster on climate change than the United States government. But with innovative energy policy taking a backseat to mid-term Washington elections, one thing is clear:… Full Story »
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Climate change hitting closer and closer to home? - Secrets of the City - Minneapolis + St. Paul
www.secretsofthecity.com via @SecretsCity &bull Sep 1, 2010Some tree species will largely die out in Minnesota, [U of M Center for Hardwood Ecology director Lee] Frelich said. Jack pine, black spruce, balsam fir and aspen already are at the southern edge of their growing range in the… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Climate Change
- Ecology
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Organic strawberries tops in taste, nutrition
Mahalo &bull Sep 1, 2010The most comprehensive study of its kind into the quality of organic food and soil has concluded organically grown strawberries are more flavourful and nutritious. Organic strawberries were found to be tastier by anonymous testers who worked under special lighting… Full Story »
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The Green Register Blog
www.greenregister.org.uk via @greenregister &bull Sep 1, 2010Are You in the Building Trade? The Green Register trains people in the construction industry like you. We would like your views on what training builders need to understand green building issues and what customers want. I am a carpenter/general contractor who frequently works with Architects on small scale domestic and commercial refurbishment jobs. Last year I looked into… Full Story »
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IngentaConnect Blister rust and western forest biodiversity: ecology, values and...
www.ingentaconnect.com via @apmnicimod &bull Sep 1, 2010Abstract: Summary Eight white pine species are widely distributed among the forests of western Canada and the United States. The different forest communities with these species contribute biodiversity to the western landscape. The trees themselves provide various ecosystem services, including… Full Story »
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RESEARCH PAPER: Using biodiversity deconstruction to disentangle assembly and diversity dynamics of understorey plants along post-fire succession in boreal forest - Azeria - 2010 - Global Ecology and Biogeography - Wiley Online Library
onlinelibrary.wiley.com via @apmnicimod &bull Sep 1, 2010Azeria, E. T., Bouchard, M., Pothier, D., Fortin, D. and Hebert, C. , RESEARCH PAPER: Using biodiversity deconstruction to disentangle assembly and diversity dynamics of understorey plants along post-fire succession in boreal forest. Global Ecology and Biogeography, no. Natural Resources… Full Story »
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Regional US Midwest water management, climate change conference
www.climatechangewater.org via @johoma &bull Sep 1, 2010The effect of climate change on community water resource management will be the focus of the Clean Water and Climate Adaptation Summit planned for September 16 and 17 at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Presented by the Arboretum, in collaboration with… Full Story »
