Climate change and permafrost thaw alter greenhouse gas emissions in northern wetlands
...ife, found that permafrost degradation has complex impacts on greenhouse gas fluxes from northern wetlands. Their study focused on peatlands, a common type of wetland in boreal regions that slowly accumulates peat, which is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation. Today, peatlands represent a mass......er for Atmospheric Research) talk will discuss the impacts of recommended space missions from this Decadal Survey. These new missions will revolutionize ecology from space, but will also challenge the theory, algorithms and models the community now uses to analyze space-based data, says Schimel....Lost forest yields several new species
...imits to conservationists until recently. Human impacts to the region are currently low, with gold mining on a minor level being the most substantial threat. Further, survey members who met with the leaders of local villages have found that most are supportive of turning the region into a protected area. ...Link between sunspots, rain helps predict disease in east Africa
...edicting future environmental conditions and their impacts on society," said Dave Verardo, director of the National Science Foundation's paleoclimate program, which funded the research. "It's especially important in a region [East Africa] perennially on the knife-edge of sustainability." Sunspots indicate ......iversity of Massachusetts) will focus on potential impacts on Indias Monsoon Belt, home to a large part of the globes population. India has the largest irrigated agricultural area in the world, with more than 90 percent of the countrys water supporting irrigated agriculture. Vapor fluxes in Indias wet seas...Genetic factors strongly shape how peers are chosen
...luencing our own social environment, which in turn impacts on our risk for a whole host of deviant behaviors. Our results demonstrate clearly that a complete understanding of the pathway from genes to antisocial behaviors, including drug abuse, has to take into account self-selection into deviant versus be...UC experts detail new standard for cleaner transportation fuels
...of emissions targets); study of the sustainability impacts and lifecycle emissions of existing and new fuels; and a cost analysis of the LCFS following the cost-effectiveness approach used in evaluating the U.S. Clean Air Act. Environmentalists: In addition to climate change, the report recommends tha...Forecasting system provides flood warnings to vulnerable residents of Bangladesh
... floods could help them ward off some of the worst impacts of rising waters. If they had sufficient warning, they could harvest at least a portion of their ripening crops, move some livestock to safety, encircle fish ponds with nets to prevent fish from escaping, and stock food and other supplies. "The goa...Chickadee, nutchatch presence in conifers increases tree growth, says CU-Boulder study
...nts, or both, since ants also can have significant impacts on other arthropods, he said. "The study indicates that pine canopies are very complex systems with an unexpected level of biodiversity," said Mooney. "Forest managers really need to look at the big picture of ecosystems and not just focus on tre...FDA sees nanotech challenges in every product category it regulates
...s the Task Force report highlights, nanotechnology impacts every area of FDA responsibilitydrugs, drug delivery systems, cosmetics, medical devices, and food products. Overall, the agency regulates products that are worth nearly $1.5 trillion annually and that account for almost 25 percent of US consumer spe...Save our reef, save our heritage
Protecting the Great Barrier Reef from the impacts of climate change, natural disasters and rising hu...er they are gone it will be too late. The global impacts of natural disasters, climate change, globalisation and conflict are recognised as real risks by gov...Assessing levies for by-catch could fund conservation measures
...rn a profit from common-pool resources pay for the impacts they have on the system. At the same time, they argue, if levy money were given to conservationists to address other threats to seabird or turtle populations, then these conservationists would in turn be made more accountable for producing and quanti...Philadelphia ecologist receives top Mongolia honor
...y grant implemented by the World Bank to study the impacts of nomadic pastoralism and climate change on the Hvsgl Watershed. He has worked with UNESCO Mongolia to designate Lake Hvsgl National Park as a World Heritage site, and is trying to encourage eco-tourism around the lake. He has been honored as an Ho...Changing climate will challenge Northeast agriculture, CU expert warns
...cal Garden. Choices made today could have profound impacts on tomorrow's agriculture and natural landscapes, he said. In simultaneous press conferences in seven northeastern cities, the team of independent experts, in collaboration with the Union of Concerned Scientists, presented analyses of the impact of c...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
... Synapses on shafts are predicted to have distinct impacts on cell excitability based on differences in synaptic size and the electrotonic properties of dendrites. This week, Aoto et al. show that the formation of shaft synapses in cultured hippocampal pyramidal cells depends on so-called reverse ephrinB3 si...'Sundried tide' -- silent, natural disaster
...hermal bleaching." Since studying the cause and impacts of these major events, Dr Anthony hopes that their predictable nature will lead to improved warning systems and better models for predicting stress and mortality in corals. Although predictable and natural, "sundried tides" were unavoidable and co...SNM initiatives supported by inclusions in NAS Report on competitiveness of US chemistry research
...bility studies and strategies to overcome them and impacts of shortages of isotopes and highly trained radiochemists on nuclear medicine research; and short- and long-term strategies to alleviate such shortages. ...Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
...n of abatement: An environmental crisis with major impacts UNU says the main barrier to expanding isolated successes at combating desertification is the lack of effective management policies. In some countries where policies are deemed conducive to addressing desertification, enactment and implementation...World Wildlife Fund warns against iron dumping experiment near the Galapagos Islands
...ffect through the food chain. Potential negative impacts of the Planktos experiment include: Shifts in the composition of species that make up plankton, the base of the marine food chain, would cause changes in all the species that depend on it. The impact of gases released by both the larg...Damon Runyon names new class of rising stars in cancer research
...in which the organization of the cellular scaffold impacts cancer cell spread or metastasis. Melissa R. Junttila, PhD, with her sponsor Gerard I. Evan, PhD, at the University of California, San Francisco, California, is designing new mouse models to challenge long standing dogma about how p53, the most comm...