Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

Coastal Fish Communities Shift Due to Climate Change Insights

A detailed analysis of data from nearly 50 years of weekly fish-trawl surveys in Narragansett Bay and adjacent Rhode Island Sound has revealed a long-term…

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Ancient Oak Trees: Nature’s Ally in Combating Global Warming

The battle to reduce carbon emissions is at the heart of many eco-friendly efforts, and researchers from the University of Missouri have discovered that nature…

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Algae from the Ocean: A Sustainable Future Energy Source

K-State's Zhijian “Z.J.” Pei, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, and Wenqiao “Wayne” Yuan, assistant professor of…

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Oak Ridge Joins National Ecological Network Initiative

Walker Branch Watershed and other portions of the Department of Energy reservation will be part of the National Ecological Observatory Network, a multi-decade…

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Global Warming Shifts Coastal Fish Communities Worldwide

According to Jeremy Collie, professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, the fish community has shifted…

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New West Nile Virus Strain Spreads Due to Rising Temperatures

Higher temperatures helped a new strain of West Nile virus invade and spread across North America, according to a study published in the June 27 issue of the…

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50 Years of Marine Research in the Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is one of the best-investigated seas; data on the status of its marine environment have been recorded over several decades at numerous sites….

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Bioremediation Breakthrough for Crude Oil Sludge Cleanup

Awg Ahmad Sallehin Awg Hussaini, Kasing Apun,Mohd Hasnain Md Hussain, Micky VincentFaculty of Resource Science and TechnologyOne of the major challenges faced…

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Air Monitoring Insights: Anticipating Ecosystem Changes

Dr. Brent Auvermann, research engineer and Texas AgriLife Extension Service specialist in Amarillo, is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the…

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Climate Modeling Shows California’s Native Plant Species in Peril from Global Warming

Two-thirds of the plants native to the state of California could suffer more than an 80 percent reduction in geographic range by the end of the century,…

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Urgent Action Needed to Address Looming Tropical Disaster

Published online today in the Ecological Society of America’s journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, the review concludes we are “on a trajectory…

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Scientists Discover Greenhouse Gas Reduction Over Tropical Atlantic

Published today (26th June ’08) in the scientific journal, Nature, this startling discovery was made by a team of scientists from the UK's National Centre for…

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Acid Rain’s Impact on Adirondack Lake Microorganisms Revealed

Prior to the federal Clean Air Act, unhindered industrial emissions were released into the air throughout the Midwestern and Eastern United States for decades….

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Impact of Climate Change on Atlantic Trees in Iberian Peninsula

Now, researchers from the University of the Basque Country (Universidad del País Vasco) have studied the responses to the midsummer heat of the Mediterranean…

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Low Carbon Society: Insights from Global Modeling for 2050

The cornerstone of the project was an international modelling exercise, Low-Carbon Society Scenarios Towards 2050, undertaken by nine national teams, with a…

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Hydrogen Storage Powder: Quick Reaction Unlocks Sustainable Fuel

Hydrogen has significant benefits as a fuel of the future: potentially renewable and sustainable, and, as hydrogen fuel cells emit only water, a green…

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