In measuring gas exchange between water and air, size matters
The variability in gas exchange rates in small ponds increases with lake size -- an important finding since gas exchange variability is not well...
Solar on former strip mines? It’s not as simple as it sounds.
Developers of a solar farm atop a former Kentucky coal mining site hope their work will inspire similar projects – putting abandoned land to...
Environmentalists are playing defense in Raleigh.
Environmentalists say they are fighting a defensive battle this session of the North Carolina General Assembly, hoping to fend off changes in state law...
EPA just scrubbed even more mentions of climate from its website.
U.S. EPA is continuing to quietly alter climate change information from the sub-pages of its website following the agency’s widely criticized decision more than...
Greenpeace warns about Chinese projects.
Environmental group forecasts that coal-to-chemicals plants will account for a significant portion of CO2 emissions by 2020
Coal-to-chemicals projects that come on-line in China between...
Global warming kills gut bacteria in lizards
Climate change could threaten reptiles by reducing the number of bacteria living in their guts, new research suggests.
Installing solar to combat national security risks in the power grid
Power grid vulnerabilities are one of the most prevalent national security threats. The technical community calls for building up grid resiliency using distributed energy...
Poor overall environmental quality linked to elevated cancer rates
Nationwide, counties with the poorest quality across five domains -- air, water, land, the built environment and sociodemographic -- had the highest incidence of...
Tillage farming damaging earthworm populations
The digging, stirring and overturning of soil by conventional ploughing in tillage farming is severely damaging earthworm populations around the world, say scientists. The...
Scottish badgers highlight the complexity of species responses to environmental change
In a new study researchers have found that although warmer weather should benefit badger populations, the predicted human population increase in the Scottish highlands...
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