Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

On the way to phasing out emissions: More than 50% reductions needed by 2050 to respect 2°C climate target

The study has, for the first time, calculated how much greenhouse gas emissions we can pump into the atmosphere between now and 2050, to have a reasonable…

Environmental Conservation

‘Ayungin’ (Leiopotherapon plumbeus) target of conservation attempt by researchers

Ayungin (Leiopotherapon plumbeus), a freshwater fish species endemic in the Philippines, is thinning in population. It is a small silver-colored fish used to…

Environmental Conservation

Reattaching Large Sponges to Coral Reefs: A Conservation Breakthrough

20 specimens of the Caribbean giant barrel sponge were removed and reattached at Conch Reef off of Key Largo, Florida in 2004 and 2005 at depths of 15m and…

Environmental Conservation

'Super reefs' fend off climate change

The study, published in the online journal Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, provides additional evidence that globally important “super…

Environmental Conservation

Understanding Fire’s Role in Global Climate Change

The work is the culmination of a meeting supported by the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and…

Environmental Conservation

Sea Grant Report Synthesizes Recent Research on LI’s Clams

New York Sea Grant (NYSG) announces the release of The Hard Clam Research Initiative: Factors Controlling Mercenaria mercenaria Populations in South Shore Bays…

Environmental Conservation

Reef Recovery: Innovations Revive Coral in Keppel Islands

That year high sea temperatures caused massive and severe coral bleaching in the Keppel Islands, in the southern part of the GBR. The damaged reefs were…

Environmental Conservation

Fire’s Role in Global Warming: New Insights on Deforestation

“We've estimated that deforestation due to burning by humans is contributing about one-fifth of the human-caused greenhouse effect — and that percentage could…

Environmental Conservation

Bacteria-Based System for Treating Deadly Wastewater in Bulacan

With the increased awareness on the need to clean-up its rivers, Bulacan’s local government units have tapped UP Los Baños-BIOTECH to help in setting up…

Environmental Conservation

How Plants May Combat Climate Change’s Wildfire Impact

The increase in warmer and drier climates predicted to occur under climate change scenarios has led many scientists to also predict a global increase in the…

Environmental Conservation

Future of the Baltic Sea: Insights from Project AMBER 2100

Up to now, a simultaneous consideration of both influences and their interaction is still lacking. With the new European cooperative project AMBER (Assessment…

Environmental Conservation

Hydrogen Safeguards Nuclear Fuel in Final Storage Solutions

Even if all three barriers are damaged, the nuclear fuel will not dissolve into the groundwater, according to a new doctoral dissertation from Chalmers…

Environmental Conservation

Deep-Sea Animals Struggle as Oceans Face Oxygen Decline

Concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing rapidly in the Earth's atmosphere, primarily because of human activities. About one third of the carbon dioxide…

Environmental Conservation

Ancient Ecosystem Thrives Below Antarctic Glacier’s Ice

Described in the April 17 issue of Science, the ecosystem lives without light or oxygen in a pool of brine trapped below Taylor Glacier and next to frozen Lake…

Environmental Conservation

Unusual Antarctic Microbes Thrive in Hidden Briny Reservoir

An unmapped reservoir of briny liquid chemically similar to sea water, but buried under an inland Antarctic glacier, appears to support unusual microbial life…

Environmental Conservation

Greenhouse Gas Cuts: Protect Arctic Ice and Lower Sea Levels

While global temperatures would rise, the most dangerous potential aspects of climate change, including massive losses of Arctic sea ice and permafrost and…

Feedback