Dam Construction To Reduce Greenhouse Gases Causes Ecosystem Disruption
Researchers conclude in a new report that a global push for small hydropower projects, supported by various nations and also the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, may cause unanticipated and potentially significant losses of habitat and biodiversity. An underlying assumption that small hydropower systems pose fewer…
Warm Ocean, Not Icebergs, Causing Most Of Antarctic Ice Shelves’ Mass Loss
Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent’s ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found. Scientists have studied the rates of basal melt, or the melting of the ice shelves from underneath, of…
Central Europe Underwater
By Ata Taha Kuveloğlu Historic, deadly floods have inundated Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, with water levels expected to rise even further. Across Europe more than 10 people have been reported dead and an additional five have been reported missing by police. Rescuers are using boats to…
Russian Bees Coming To Rescue Of US Hives
By Karin Zeitvogel Russian bees are the latest buzzword among American beekeepers who see the hardy honey-makers as…
NASA Flights Target How Pollution, Storms And Climate Mix
NASA aircraft will take to the skies over the southern United States this summer to investigate how air…
Researchers Document Acceleration Of Ocean Denitrification During Deglaciation
As ice sheets melted during the deglaciation of the last ice age and global oceans warmed, oceanic oxygen…
Global Warming Caused By CFCs, Not Carbon Dioxide – Study
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are to blame for global warming since the 1970s and not carbon dioxide, according to new…
Ethiopia: Work On Millennium Dam Begins, To Deviate Blue Nile
The work to deviate the course of the Blue Nile – one of the two main tributaries of…
Antarctic Polar Icecap Is 33.6 Million Years Old
Seasonal primary productivity of plankton communities appeared with the first ice. This phenomenon, still active today, influences global…
Bug And Weed Killers, Solvents May Increase Risk Of Parkinson’s Disease
A large analysis of more than 100 studies from around the world shows that exposure to pesticides, or…
New Rhythm Discovered For El Niño
El Niño wreaks havoc across the globe, shifting weather patterns that spawn droughts in some regions and floods…