Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

Emphasizing Livestock’s Role in Curbing Climate Change

A reduction in non-CO2 greenhouse gases will be required to abate climate change, the researchers said. Cutting releases of methane and nitrous oxide, two…

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Big Data Insights: Top Carbon-Stocking Projects in Africa

One way to slow climate change is to increase the number of trees on Earth, as they, through photosynthesis, take up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide,…

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Catalina Island Bison Contraception Program: A Success Story

The wild bison roaming Catalina Island are a major attraction for the nearly 1 million tourists who visit the Channel Island's most popular destination every…

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Ancient Reptiles: Live Birth Origins of Snakes and Lizards

The ancestor of snakes and lizards likely gave birth to live young, rather than laid eggs, and over time species have switched back and forth in their…

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Study Reveals Climate Change Threatens Caribou Habitat

Reindeer, from Northern Europe or Asia, are often thought of as a domesticated animal, one that may pull Santa's sled. Caribou, similar in appearance but…

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Deep-Sea Corals Reveal Major Shift in Pacific Ecosystem

Long-lived deep-sea corals preserve evidence of a major shift in the open Pacific Ocean ecosystem since around 1850, according to a study by researchers at the…

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Global E-Waste Map: Insights on National Volumes and Flows

By 2017, all of the year's end-of-life refrigerators, TVs, mobile phones, computers, monitors, e-toys and other products with a battery or electrical cord…

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Innovative Solutions for Saving Great Plains Water Supply

In the current issue of Earth’s Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, Michigan State University scientists are proposing alternatives that will…

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Neue Akteure im Ökosystem der Arktis

Biologen des Alfred-Wegener-Institutes, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), haben zum ersten Mal nachgewiesen, dass sich in den arktischen…

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Unlocking Waste Heat: Siemens’ Multi-Modal Energy Innovations

In its latest issue the research magazine “Pictures of the Future” reports about the chances of this multi modal energy system. Scientists of Siemens' global…

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Turkestan Cockroach Displacing Oriental Cockroach in the SW US

In 1978, the Turkestan cockroach was first reported at Sharpe Army Depot in Lathrope, CA, and it is now widely distributed throughout California and urban…

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New Rearing Method Aids Western Bean Cutworm Control

However, in an article in the Journal of Economic Entomology called “Evaluation of Tolerance to Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins Among Laboratory-Reared Western…

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Industrial Age Helps Some Coastal Regions Capture Carbon Dioxide

Coastal portions of the world’s oceans, once believed to be a source of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere, are now thought to absorb as much as two-thirds…

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Ocean Acidification: Study Reveals Fish Anxiety Response

A new research study combining marine physiology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and behavioral psychology has revealed a surprising outcome from increases of…

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Transforming Wet Biomass Waste Into Valuable Products

A new research project supported by the European Union with the intention to find new applications for wet biomass waste materials has successfully been…

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Tracking Shipping Noise: A New Method for Dolphin Habitats

A biologist in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences has developed a system of techniques for tracking ships and monitoring underwater noise…

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