Comedians have made good use of "road kill" in their routines, but a Clarkson University professor began focusing attention on the problem after finding roads in northern New York covered in green sheen from frogs who had been flattened by traffic.
Despite successes in reducing dolphin bycatch, fishing found to negatively affect reproduction.
Arizona State University Professor Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, director of the Jewish Studies program, will be one of 30 representatives of different major faith traditions discussing the world's climate issues at the Interfaith Summit on Climate Change in Uppsala, Sweden, Nov. 28-29.
New research shows that we should be looking to the ground, not the sky, to see where climate change could have its most perilous impact on life on Earth.
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry researchers are studying a plan that would pump water from deep in Lake Ontario into buildings 30 miles away in Syracuse, providing environmentally friendly cooling for city buildings.
Green technology now includes information technology infrastructure. The Buck Institute for Age Research has received LEED for Commercial Interiors Silver certification for a build out of new laboratory space, including an Innovation in Design Credit for Information Technology Infrastructure.
It's not the extra few feet of water that make sea level rise so dangerous. It's the extra few feet during a storm during El Niño during high tide, say researchers.
Three-wheel professional personal mobility vehicles are instantly recognizable to anyone who's seen a policeman on patrol or a security guard handling crowd control at big public events. A market exists, however, in the security, military, law enforcement, and public event space: addressing the need for alternative, all-electric "green" vehicles.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) invites you to a workshop for journalists focusing on health and the environment. The workshop will be held this coming December 4th and 5th 2008, at the Delta Vancouver Suites, 550 Hastings Street West in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Kansas State University researchers found that freshwater pollution by phosphorous and nitrogen costs government agencies, drinking water facilities and individual Americans at least $4.3 billion annually. Of that, they calculated that $44 million a year is spent just protecting aquatic species from nutrient pollution.
William K. Smith, professor and Charles H. Babcock Chair of Botany at Wake Forest University, leads the Coastal Barrier Island Network (CBIN), an international group of scientists studying the effective management of barrier island ecosystems.
A review of studies projecting the impact of climate change on air quality, including effects on morbidity and mortality, indicates that adverse health effects will likely rise with changes in pollutant creation, transport, dispersion, and deposition. However, reducing greenhouse gas emissions could go far in mitigating adverse effects. These findings appear in the November 2008 issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP).
Earthwatch releases an update on 3 recent initiatives to fight climate change: its Beat the Heat Climate Change Campaign--highlighting first-ever local volunteering projects, Live from the Field teacher program--using technology to reach classrooms nationwide, and a new element to the HSBC Climate Partnership--designed to implement sustainable practices in businesses and local communities.
Want to understand why switching to renewable fuels is going to be so hard? This overview of alternative energy, fossil fuels and the climate challenge puts it all in perspective. Pay special attention to the chart.
Through a NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)-funded expedition, 17 researchers are studying high-altitude lakes in Chile and Bolivia hoping to find conditions relative to what was on Mars 3.5 billion years ago.
Engineers at UC San Diego's Center for Energy Research (CER) are working on some of the tough problems that stand in the way of efficient, economical, and environmentally friendly energy sources.
As California's population continues to grow in the coming decades, freshwater supplies to farms, homes and businesses are expected to decline. To help reduce the vast amount of water used for agriculture-which consumes about four times the fresh water of homes and businesses-researchers at UC San Diego's Jacobs School are using sensor technologies to devise new strategies for irrigating farmland more efficiently.
More than 28,500 students who came back to UC San Diego this year found a campus that is getting greener every day, as the university solidifies its position as a leader in sustainability among the nation's higher education institutions.
Faculty experts in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin are available to discuss topics ranging from sustainable building and design to urban planning and energy performance of buildings.
The industrial revolution was inherently flawed from a supply chain perspective" says Patrick Penfield, assistant professor of supply chain practice in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. "The U.S. supply chain processes in business have been developed on the basis of an inexhaustible supply of resources and a total disregard of waste products. We in essence have created a "˜disposable society.'
A new report from National Wildlife Federation offers the latest scientific research on global warming and water supplies, competition for resources, demographic factors, and how to better prepare for managing the region's water availability challenges.
Two University of Vermont research groups are asking: why do leaves go red? The ecology and mechanisms are still unknown. The question has economic urgency since climate change may make New England's bright leaf season go dull, drying up the flow of tourists and their wallets.
University of Iowa students developed a hand-held water sanitizing device that could save lives. A creative cafeteria worker developed a compost project to divert food waste from dumpsters. And a surprising substance is the source of one-fifth of the fuel consumed in the UI's Main Power Plant: oat hulls. These and other intriguing story ideas are detailed in a sustainability tip sheet for reporters.
Forests that evolved without native earthworms now face the invasion of European earthworms from agriculture and fishing. Ripple effects could include carbon sequestration & climate change.
College students notoriously shun early morning, evening and Friday classes, but what if a change in schedules reduced a university's carbon footprint?
A detailed analysis of black carbon -- the residue of burned organic matter -- in computer climate models suggests that those models may be overestimating global warming predictions.
College students and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service professionals are learning together this semester in a course on conservation and global climate change at Indiana University Bloomington. And, through the use of innovative technology, they are doing so in a way that doesn't contribute to climate change.
A new research center has been established at Indiana University Bloomington to explore issues related to energy and the environment, including the carbon cycle and its role in climate, the environmental consequences of energy production and use, and the potential for cleaner fossil fuels and renewable energy.
Students measuring the loss of sand on the barrier island of Grand Isle, La., are seeing coastal erosion happen before their eyes. Dean Moosavi takes students in his physical geology course to the spit of land on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico where they are observing rapid land loss in southern Louisiana.
In 1994, Kohl became concerned about high levels of mercury in the sediment and fish of the Pearl River, a popular fishing spot in Louisiana where people had little knowledge of mercury contamination. He took his concerns to the legislature.
The Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research has received a National Science Foundation award totaling $901,120 to enhance a program designed to increase the number of minority students pursuing doctoral programs in environmental research.
Although Americans are becoming increasingly aware of toxic chemical exposure from everyday household products like bisphenol A in some baby bottles and lead in some toys, women do not readily connect typical household products with personal chemical exposure and related adverse health effects, according to research from the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
The management of stormwater in urban areas is often focused on restoring the hydrologic cycle disrupted by extensive pavement and compacted urban soils, but now a group of researchers have been investigating innovative ways to maximize the potential of trees to address stormwater. The development of structural soil reservoirs may provide new opportunities for meeting engineering, environmental, and greenspace management needs in urban areas.
A detailed analysis of black carbon - the residue of burned organic matter - in computer climate models suggests that those models may be overestimating global warming predictions.
Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville use data gathered by microwave sounding units on NOAA and NASA satellites to get accurate temperature readings for almost all regions of the Earth.
Indiana University students and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service professionals are learning together this semester in an IU course on conservation and global climate change -- without contributing to further climate change. The class meets on the IU campus, and Fish and Wildlife Service personnel from eight states participate from their homes or offices, linked to the classroom by phone and computer.
Among steps the University of Mississippi is taking to become more eco-friendly is a new 18-hour academic minor in environmental studies. Responding to the incredible growth of environmental studies programs across the country, the university this fall began offering the new course ENVS 101, or Classics of Modern Environmental Literature.
The GW School of Business' Institute for Corporate Responsibility and Sport Management program has launched a "Green Sports Score Card" research initiative that will help sports organizations globally assess their environmental friendliness.
While Earth has experienced numerous changes in climate over the past 65 million years, recent decades have experienced the most significant climate change since the beginning of human civilized societies about 5,000 years ago, says a new Cornell University study.
In February of last year, University of Wisconsin- Madison senior Ted Durkee teamed up with University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus Brandon Gador, who graduated last spring, to found Powered Green, a startup company promoting the use of renewable energy. They officially launched the company at the end of September.
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered and demonstrated a new method for overcoming two major hurdles facing solar energy. By developing a new antireflective coating that boosts the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allows those panels to absorb the entire solar spectrum from nearly any angle, the research team has moved academia and industry closer to realizing high-efficiency, cost-effective solar power.
An alarming new study to be published in November in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources finds that one-third of the world's marine fish catches are ground up and fed to farm-raised fish, pigs, and poultry, squandering a precious food resource for humans and disregarding the serious overfishing crisis in our oceans.
Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College announced today the completion of a $12 million renovation of the John B. Shepherd Central Utility Plant located on the campus of CAU. The Central Utility Plant services 23 buildings at Spelman, 14 at CAU, and 14 at Morehouse.
From the ants in your back yard to apes in Africa's forests, UC San Diego biologists are looking at genetics, behavior and how organisms interact with their environments. They will share their insights of how modern ecology provides a scientific basis for conservation in a series of public talks presented by UCSD's Division of Biological Sciences called Nature Matters.
Compound used in manufacture of flat panel televisions, computer displays, microcircuits, solar panels is 17,000 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Maryland officials can reduce electricity use in the state significantly by investing revenues from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative cap-and-trade auctions in energy efficiency programs, says a new study from a University of Maryland-led research team. It adds that neighboring states might benefit as well.
Climate change in the Northwest is the focus of two federal grants totaling $3.2 million awarded to two University of Oregon researchers. They will work together on a pair of multi-site projects designed to help enhance biodiversity while protecting people and property from wildfires in the face of a changing climate.
Contrary to popular belief, moderate increases in temperature and increased nitrogen from acid rain actually improves forest productivity, providing there is sufficient moisture.
Michigan's forest industry produces thousands of jobs and hundreds of thousands of tons of unused residues each year. Why not use that woody material to help generate clean electric power?
New York City College of Technology intends to make inroads in the prediction of natural disasters with support from a three-year, $459K grant from the National Science Foundation. The funds are targeted for faculty-supervised student research in state-of-the-art satellite and ground-based remote sensing.
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