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Cycling vs. Car Transportation
Swedish Study concludes Cars costs society EUR 0.15 per kilometre, whereas Cyling PAYS EUR 0.16 Originally Published on ENN What’s more expensive? Owning a car or a bicycle? Answer seems obvious...
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Valuable Mass. Ecosystems Shrinking , Doing More with Less
Originally Published on Harvard Forest By Clarisse Hart, Harvard Forest Outreach Manager All land is not created equal. Some ecosystems do triple duty in the benefits they provide to society....
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Massive Bird Invasions Linked To Climate Shifts
Teeter-tottering climate patterns are behind the boreal bird irruptions – when flocks move far beyond their normal range University of Utah News Center (via ENN) With puzzling variability, vast numbers...
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Future Climate Of The Midwest Hard To Predict
ENN via ScienceDaily Will climate change make the U.S. Midwest drier or wetter during the summer growing season? A new Dartmouth-led study finds that the answer remains uncertain. Critical To Food...
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Smoke From Canadian Wildfires Polluting the US
NASA Photograph Documents Smoke From Canadian Wildfires Polluting the US NASA via ENN By Lynn Jenner Canada has already had its share of wildfires this season, and the smoke from these wildfires is...
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What Israel Could Teach California About Droughts
Israel converted vast stretches of desert to productive farm lands & wrung water from miles of sand. What Israel Could Teach California About Droughts Triple Pundit via ENN By Jan Lee California is...
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Eating Spicy Food Could Lengthen Your Life
A new study shows that spicy food eaters are less likely to die from cancer, heart, or respiratory diseases. Eating spicy food could lengthen your life. Harvard School of Public Health via ENN People...
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EPA Proposes to Cut Landfill Emissions
18% of US methane emissions come from municipal solid waste landfills, this is the equivalent of 100 million metric tons of CO2. Now the EPA Proposes to Cut Landfill Emissions Press Release From the...
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Not Much Substance To Obama’s Plan
Climate change-denying Republicans hate it; Climate realists see it as a triumph. Its’ authority comes from this President and could end with the next, so there is not much substance to Obama’s Plan...
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60% Of Seabirds Have Plastic In Their Guts
If Seabirds are considered excellent indicators of ecosystem health, what are the implications of a study finds 60% of seabirds have plastic in their guts? The Ecologist via ENN By Chris Wilcox, Britta...
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The World’s First Solar-Powered Airport
Care2 via ENN By Tex Dworkin Aviation history has just been made. Earlier this summer I told you about the record breaking solar plane flight, and now the solar eagle has landed again—this time at an...
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Bird Feeders Can Make Birds Sick
A Virgina Tech study of a common avian eye disease found that Bird feeders can make birds sick and they can also enable a faster spread of epidemics through wild populations Virginia Tech via ENN Wild...
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US Will Cut Food Waste 50% by 2030
Methane emissions are far worse than C)2 and landfills are the nation’s third largest source of methane emissions. So the US Will Cut Food Waste 50% by 2030 Triple Pundit via ENN By Gina-Marie...
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French Lettuce Contains Traces Of Hormone disrupting chemicals
EurActiv via ENN By Romain Loury translated by Samuel White via EurActiv An investigation has found that the majority of French lettuce contains traces of hormone disrupting chemicals, some of which...
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Chernobyl considered unlikely nature reserve
Care2 via ENN By Steve Williams When you think of Chernobyl you probably think along the lines of “nuclear disaster” and a “no-go” area, but new research shows that with humans now absent from the...
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Methane Flows Through Abandoned Fracking Wells
A new University of Vermont study found that, roughly 0.03% to 3% of the time, methane flows through abandoned fracking wells ScienceDaily via ENN As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this...
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Our Waterfalls Are Threatened
Yosemite Falls was dry for 5 months last year. It is not alone. As a result of warming temperatures and disappearing snowpacks Our Waterfalls Are Threatened Care2 via ENN More than 100 years ago today,...
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Cleaner air makes us smarter!
Triple Pundit via ENN By Bill Roth A study just published by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has linked a building’s indoor air quality directly to its occupants’ cognitive function....
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Beavers Are Making A Comeback In Britain
Beavers were reintroduced to Scotland in a successful trial during 2008, The ECOreport reprints the story of how Beavers are making a comeback in Britain The Ecologist via ENN Beavers are Britain’s...
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How Climate Change Affects Agriculture
The ECOreport reposts a study of Brazil’s soybean production which illustrates how Climate Change affects agriculture Brown University via ENN One of the most critical questions surrounding climate...
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