Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

Southern Fires Cause Airport Closures and Air Quality Alerts

Smoke from these fires has impacted major airports and interstates throughout both States, and statewide air quality advisories have been issued. Smoke…

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Prescribed Burning: A New Strategy to Reduce CO2 Emissions

The European Forest Institute recently made a study on the use of prescribed burning in Europe and found that it can make an important contribution to reducing…

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Many Strong Voices Unite for Climate Change Solutions

In a passionate and forthright address in which he supported the establishment of the Many Strong Voices alliance, Honourable John Briceno, Deputy Prime…

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Alternative fuel vehicles will be tough sell –But policy incentives will widen use

Among the barriers: Until many alternative fuel (AF) vehicles are on the road, people won't consider buying one-so there won't be many on the road. Catch-22.The researchers' conclusions are not all gloomy, though. If policy incentives are kept in place long enough, adoption will reach a level at which the market will begin to grow on its own. But “long enough” …

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Climate Change Signals Detected in Indian Ocean Measurements

“From ocean measurements and by analysing climate simulations we can see there are changes in features of the ocean that cannot be explained by natural…

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Review of pilot phase of European Union Emissions Trading Scheme finds it to be successful and …

Articles published today in the first issue of new journal, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy[1], describe the European Union’s Emissions Trading…

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World Environment Day: Addressing Poverty and Environmental Links

Traditionally large sections of the Labour party were suspicious of the environment movement and that suspicion still exists, states Jon Fairburn, Senior…

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Forest Birds Thrive in Farmland With Limited Habitat Care

The results, published in the April 2007 issue of the journal Conservation Biology, could influence the way countries approach endangered species protection in…

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Chinese space agency joins the International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’

China National Space Administration (CNSA) Administrator Prof. Dr Sun Laiyan signed the Charter on 24 May at ESA headquarters in Paris, France, in the presence…

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Hurricane Risks Surge Along US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts

Much of the nation’s Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines face substantially higher-than-normal risks for hurricanes in 2007, according to an analysis by a…

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Identifying Fecal Bacteria Sources in Nebraska Streams

Excessive levels of fecal bacteria were to blame for almost 60 percent of Nebraska streams deemed impaired by federal and state environmental laws in 2004. In…

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Identifying Fecal Bacteria Sources in Nebraska Streams

Excessive levels of fecal bacteria were to blame for almost 60 percent of Nebraska streams deemed impaired by federal and state environmental laws in 2004. In…

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Olive Stones: A Natural Solution for Industrial Sewage Depollution

A study carried out by Dr. Germán Tenorio Rivas, a member of the research group “Solids concentration and bioremediation” from the Department of Chemical…

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Pioneering Research in Northern Circumpolar Archaeology

Archaeology and geology researchers from the University of Tromsø will contribute to the project together with a national team of researchers from around the…

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Arctic Predators at Risk: Climate Change Threatens Survival

One of these project concerns the reduction in the population of several Arctic predators, including the Arctic fox, which is now classified as an endangered…

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Security Perspectives: Voices from the High North

“It is important to ask the people who live in the High North how they experience their own security,” says Gunhild Hoogensen, an Associate Professor in…

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