Plants will not save us from greenhouse gases
...nts (including agricultural species) as our use of fossil fuels increases and generates increased carbon dioxide levels.......er Jodi Vincent, while on a survey looking for new fossil localities in the Monument. WHY: The specimen holds a wealth of information about dinosaurs prior to their extinction. The find is extremely rare since dinosaurs of this genus are not typically found in this southern region (similar specimens ha...Alaska scientists find Arctic tundra yields surprising carbon loss
...ic carbon dioxide concentrations than is caused by fossil fuel burning. "The paradigm is that decomposers (microbes) are always limited by carbon availability and almost never limited by nitrogen availability, but this project suggests that we don't understand decomposition as well as we thought we did. Be...Pollutant causes delayed flowering in plants
...itric oxide emitted as air pollutants from burning fossil fuels could affect the critical process of plant flowering. Since the decision to flower is so critical to reproduction, a delay in flowering could have important impacts on ecosystems, both plant and animal, they said. The researchers, led by Duke U...New fossil sheds light on old mystery
CHICAGO--The well-preserved fossil of a newly discovered reptile species may explain ... Science paper and chair of geology and curator of fossil amphibians and reptiles at Chicago's Field Museum. "It allowed an almost perfect strike at prey, whi...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
...ng fish. While it's difficult to add muscles to a fossil when there is little or no evidence for muscles in the fossil record, and even tougher when the fossil has no living counterpart, Rieppel said their ideas are bas...Environmental decontamination, greenhouse gases, and the genome of a methane-loving bacterium
...people and they're apt to think of carbon dioxide, fossil fuels, and big cars. Though carbon dioxide emissions are the major source of greenhouse gases, methane is far more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere. Like increasing carbon dioxide levels, rising levels of atmospheric methane have been att...'Fossil genes' reveal how life sheds form and function
MADISON - Reading the fossil record, a paleontologist can peer into evolutionar...apanese yeast, scientists have found a trackway of fossil genes in the making, providing a rare look at how an organism, in response to the demands of its env...South Dakota Tech grad student finds rare whale
...y graduate student. Their work augments studies of fossil sea turtles found in South Dakota. Hart measured the 13-foot whale, photographed it and collected its skull for identification by Dr. James Mead at The Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History. He identified it as a Sowerby's beaked wha...New research shows air pollution can reduce children's lung function
...uggests that pollutants from vehicle emissions and fossil fuels hinder lung development and limit breathing capacity for a lifetime. The study was funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the National Institutes of Health, the California Air Resources Board and the H...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
...ast source of energy, greatly surpassing all known fossil fuel resources, but many questions and challenges remain before these deposits can be tapped. Clathrate hydrates, which consist of a gas molecule surrounded by a cage of water molecules to form an ice-like structure, could in theory also be used to s...Do genes respond to global warming?
...Cave, and compared genetic material extracted from fossil samples taken from different time points over the past 3,000 years to genetic data taken from contemporary animals. Studying these populations in space and time--an approach the authors call "phylochronology"--offers an opportunity to analyze the ge...Fossils reveal direct link between global warming and genetic diversity in wildlife
... of thousands of bones and represents a continuous fossil record dating back 3,000 years. This timescale all... That prediction was confirmed by an analysis of fossil abundance in Lamar Cave, which revealed a 40 percent drop in the vole population during the warmer p...Broken arms and collateral damage: clues to predator-driven evolution
...hat this has occurred are scattered throughout the fossil record, but not evenly, Baumiller said. During one...ller and his former graduate student Gahn, studied fossil crinoids, a group of marine animals related to starfish and sea urchins. Crinoids, also called sea l...Natural mineral locks up carbon dioxide
...tine so that it sequesters the carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning in hours, not eons. "Serpentine natur...ter all the carbon dioxide emissions produced from fossil fuels. "Previous researchers investigating serpentine for use in sequestering carbon dioxide have c...Environmental costs of home construction lower with wise choice, reuse of building materials
...e can farther reduce the greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels wherever lumber mills generate power and hea...esiduals, a renewable source of energy compared to fossil fuels. Two designs of typical houses were analyzed in the study by the Consortium for Research on R...Technology already exists to stabilize global warming
...ol expenses associated with burning coal and other fossil fuels. Carbon the culprit The study ...bon dioxide, which comes from burning carbon-based fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal. Throughout Earth's history, changes in carbon dioxide level...T. rex owes its giant size to the ultimate teenage growth spurt
...FMNH PR 2211). "Drawing on such a large number of fossil specimens provides the first evidence of its kind ...as 28 years old at the time of death, although the fossil is 67 million years old. For more information on Sue, visit http://www.fmnh.org/exhibits/exhibit_si...Computer imaging of Archeopteryx skull suggests this dinosaur-bird link could fly
AUSTIN, Texas Using computer imaging to model a fossil of an Archeopteryx animal, a scientific team led...e the bird-brain features of Archeopteryx from a fossil fragment brought to him by Angela Milner. The paleontologist at London's Natural History Museum is a...Ecologist calls for creation of an international panel to assess human behavior
...nd have the right to exploit global resources like fossil fuels, whose use has consequences for all, including future generations. It could examine how to reduce racial, religious, gender and economic inequities and whether any nations can ethically produce or store weapons of mass destruction.'' Ehrlich p...