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Receding fog may leave redwoods in the lurch

RECEDING coastal fogs may threaten the next generation of California’s . A new analysis of cloud cover over California reveals that fogs are 30 per cent less frequent today than 50 years ago. “The large trees intercept …

Ocean Conservationist Calls for Sea Change

New Non-fiction “Deserted Ocean” Sheds Light on Our Depleting Ocean Resources BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ — According to an official United Nations report, all of the world’s oceans are projected to be overf…

Harpenden scientists help Chinese environment

SCIENTISTS at Harpenden’s Rothamsted Research are working with colleagues in China to cut use of nitrogen-based fertilisers that harm the environment. Crop fertilisers based on nitrogen damage soil in the long term by m…

Big Polluters Walk Out On Enviroment Group

The U.S. Climate Action Partnership, which has been working to help the progress of federal legislation which covers carbon emissions and green house gases, lost three of its most prominent members–all of them major poll…

Soil Erosion, Conservation and Bioengineering

This module will demonstrate how vegetation and inert structures, such as geotextiles, can be used to restore, reclaim, remediate and protect land from degradation processes such as soil erosion and mass movements, so en…

2009- Global Warming Causes Foggy Days in San Francisco… 2010- Global Warming Causes Fog-less Days in San Francisco

You just can’t make this stuff up. Global warming blamed on foggier days in San Francisco: SFGate reported this seven months ago: The Bay Area just had its foggiest May in 50 years. And thanks to global warming, it’s abo…

First-Ever ‘State Of The Carbon Cycle Report’ Finds Troubling Imbalance

(Nov. 17, 2007) — The first “State of the Carbon Cycle Report” for North America finds the continent’s carbon budget increasingly overwhelmed by human-caused emissions. North American sources release nearly 2 billion ……

Lasers From Space Show Thinning Of Greenland And Antarctic Ice Sheets

(Sep. 24, 2009) — The most comprehensive picture of the rapidly thinning glaciers along the coastline of both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has been created using satellite lasers. The findings are an …  >  (…

Lasers From Space Show Thinning Of Greenland And Antarctic Ice Sheets

(Sep. 24, 2009) — The most comprehensive picture of the rapidly thinning glaciers along the coastline of both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has been created using satellite lasers. The findings are an …  >  (…

THE IMPORTANCE OF clean water….

THE IMPORTANCE OF clean water.