Environmental Current Events & News

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Environmental Current Events & News is our page covering recent scientific findings about the environment and environmental science current events. It offers recent environmental articles and news about scientific discoveries relating to climate change, pollution, remediation technology, conservation biology, and other issues related to the status of the biosphere. This page sometimes links to interesting environmental news articles on other websites. Genetic study will help biofuel production A promising biofuel candidate gets a genetic map. Full article → New sanctuaries for dolphins The Government of Bangladesh recently declared three new wildlife sanctuaries for endangered freshwater dolphins. Full article → Dangerous exotics: An increasing concern in U.S. The film Elephant in the Living Room is a shocking commentary on what you may now encounter on the streets and in the woods of America — encounters that may put you in the hospital, or even the cemetery. Full article → New super-efficient power system Barry Bruce, a University of Tennessee biochemist, has found a way to collect electricity from chlorophyll. Full article → Kirtlands warbler: Assisted by NASA Satellite data shows Kirtland's warblers prefer forests after fire. Full article → Atrazine: An environmental blight A new study finds consistent patterns of reproductive dysfunction in amphibians, fish, reptiles and mammals exposed to the widely used herbicide atrazine. Full article → Ozone decreasing NASA satellite confirms sharp decline in pollution from U.S. coal power plants. Full article → Sewage and caffeine: A close correlation Researchers have discovered that traces of caffeine are a useful indicator of sewage contamination. Full article → A call for better world government An effective environmental governance system needs to be instituted soon, according to independent experts commissioned by organizers of the huge “Planet Under Pressure” conference in London March 26-29, 2012. Full article → Jellyfish gobbling carbon Massive jellyfish swarms are altering the marine carbon cycle, says a new study. Full article → Share/print this page: Giant dust storms in the Southwest Over the next couple of decades, researchers say, the American West will transition to an environment that may make the 1930s Dust Bowl seem mild and brief. Full article → US rivers and streams saturated with carbon According to Yale researchers, rivers and streams in the United States are releasing enough carbon into the atmosphere to fuel 3.4 million car trips to the moon. Full article → Sea level to go up Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute are part of a team that has calculated the long-term outlook for rising sea levels in relation to the levels of greenhouse gases and pollution in the atmosphere using climate models. Full article → Drastic sea-level changes ahead? New evidence of sea-level changes during a warm period that started about 125,000 years ago raises the possibility of a similar scenario if the planet continues its more recent warming trend, says a research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Full article → Environmental Current Events - © 2011, 2012 Macroevolution.net    Other news pages on Macroevolution.net: General biology — Recent general-interest biology news. Health current events — Medical news and current events. Animal News — Recent science articles about animals. Biotechnology current events — Recent advances in biotechnology. Molecular biology news — Recent developments in molecular biology. Current earth science articles — News about the Earth. Astrobiology — Astronomy news with a bearing biology. Fossil news — News about recent fossil finds. Marine science current events — New findings in marine biology. Ocean acidification: Things to come? Submarine springs offer preview of ocean acidification effects on coral reefs. Full article → Super bacteria A new study says they lurk in even the cleanest wastewater. Full article → Double acid whammy in northern Gulf A new study finds that high levels of fertilizer pollution from the Mississippi is combining with elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from fossil fuels to kill shell-forming organisms in the Gulf of Mexico. Full article → How will climate change impact leaf fall? USGS scientists are studying how autumn leaf fall may be impacted by climate change. Full article → White pox disease in coral caused by human pathogen According to a new study, sewage contamination is the cause of white pox, the disease responsible for putting elkhorn coral on the endangered species list. Full article → Oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea Oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea has never been greater than it is now. But it is not an effect of climate change but rather of increased inputs of nutrients and fertilizers. Full article → A global picture of air pollution NASA has created the first-ever map showing levels of air pollution worldwide. Full article → Chesapeake Bay: Coming back to life Efforts to control pollutants have reduced the size of the dead zones in the United States' largest estuiary. Full article → Barred Sand Bass, Kelp Bass endangered Stocks of both these fish have collapsed due to a combination of overfishing of their breeding areas and changes in oceanographic conditions. Full article → Study confirms Gulf oil spill's vastness First independent measure of Gulf oil spill employs new imaging method Full article → Environmental Current Events - © 2011, 2012 Macroevolution.net