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Lack of Plant Diversity Spurs Cankerworm Damage in Cities

By Guest PostAugust 10, 2014Environmentcaterpillars, cities, climate change, entomology, francesco panerai, harold barnard, lack, north Carolina, onditions on mars, plant diversity, state university, test drive spacecraft, urban environments, wasserqualitaet von fluessen

Research from North Carolina State University finds that a lack of plant diversity is a key contributor to the widespread defoliation caused by cankerworms in cities, and highlights the role that increasing diversity can play in limiting future damage.

Fall cankerworms (Alsophila pometaria) are caterpillars that are native to the eastern United States and hatch in early spring. The cankerworms defoliate trees and other plants, eating new leaves as they emerge – which is both unsightly and can ultimately kill the plants. (more…)

No way around it: Reducing emissions will be the primary way to fight climate change, UCLA-led study finds

By Guest PostJuly 14, 2014Environmentamount of carbon, atmosphere, carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, CCS, climate change, corn plants, deforestation, eiweiss quelle, fight, fleischersatz, global warming, greenhouse gases, mikroklima, nahrung, NASA, pet imaging, release, richard ferrieri, robert hafner, soja agrobusiness, sojaanbau in Salta, sojaproduzent, ucla

Climate engineering won’t sufficiently stem global warming

orget about positioning giant mirrors in space to reduce the amount of sunlight being trapped in the earth’s atmosphere or seeding clouds to reduce the amount of light entering earth’s atmosphere. Those approaches to climate engineering aren’t likely to be effective or practical in slowing global warming. (more…)

Corals and climate

By Guest PostJuly 11, 2014Environmentandrea grottoli, antarctic fossil, ausgestorbene riesenschildkroete, cdte solar cells, chaco schildkroete, chelonoidis alburyorum, climate, climate change, coral, coral reefs, cortana intelligence suite, era of ai, era of innovation, fossilized syrinxes, galapagos schildkroete, harry shum, heat stress, mark warner, michael hofreiter, myanalytics, ocean floor, ohio state university, oldest squawk box, plankton, university of delaware, vocal organ

For corals adjusting to climate change, it’s survival of fattest and most flexible

The future health of the world’s coral reefs and the animals that depend on them relies in part on the ability of one tiny symbiotic sea creature to get fat — and to be flexible about the type of algae with which it cooperates. (more…)

If global warming is real, why was it so cold and snowy last winter?

By Guest PostJuly 6, 2014Environmentclimate change, global warming, public opinion, scientific evidence, survey

ANN ARBOR — More Americans view global warming by what they see outside their windows and not scientific evidence, according to a University of Michigan survey. (more…)

A plan to share the carbon budget burden

By Guest PostJune 28, 2014Environmentbrown university, carbon budget, China, climate change, European Union, fruchtfressender voegel, greenhouse gas emissions, j timmons roberts, karen jubanyik, narcan, rachel solnick, tropenwaelder, united states, willpower

For 20 years, the international community has been unable to agree on a coordinated way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. J. Timmons Roberts, the Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology, has co-authored a four-step compromise toward emissions reduction that offers “effectiveness, feasibility, and fairness.”

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Climate change is an issue of urgent international importance, but for 20 years, the international community has been unable to agree on a coordinated way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In a “Perspective” piece published in the June issue of Nature Climate Change, J. Timmons Roberts, the Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology, proposes a four-step compromise toward emissions reduction that offers “effectiveness, feasibility, and fairness.” (more…)

Amphibians in a vise: Climate change robs frogs, salamanders of refuge

By Guest PostJune 1, 2014Environmentamphibians, aquatic species, climate change, dona sarkar, frogs, hackathon event, itast, refuge, salamanders, simon fraser university, tcells, university of washington, warming climate

By hightailing it to nearby ponds and shallow waterways, frogs and salamanders have – until now – had a way to evade exotic trout introduced to the West’s high-mountain lakes for recreational fishing.

A warming climate, however, will dry up some of the places where amphibians and their young have found refuge. Researchers in the May 1 issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment write about this challenge and a novel combination of tools that could help land managers, biologists, fishing enthusiasts and other citizens weigh where amphibians are in the most need of help and guide plans for possible fish removals from selected lakes. (more…)

Wie Wälder zur Wolkenbildung beitragen? CLOUD-Experiment am CERN klärt erste Phase der Wolkenentstehung

By Guest PostMay 21, 2014Sciencealexander vogler, anush khachatrian, cagan sekercioglu, carrion, CERN, climate change, complex concepts, dna doppelstrangbrueche, druck, egyptian vulture, evan buechley, genetische information, intergovernmental panel, ipcc, jonathan ellman, marlene jagut, max perutz, parameter, process of discovery, structured illumination microscopy, temperatur

Inwiefern Wolken das Klima tatsächlich beeinflussen, steht nach wie vor nicht fest. Vielleicht auch deshalb, weil viele Details der Wolkenbildung noch ungeklärt sind. Seit Jahren beteiligen sich AerosolphysikerInnen der Universität Wien an dem internationalen CLOUD-Experiment am CERN in Genf, um den Wolkenentstehungsprozess zu analysieren. Die WissenschafterInnen haben jetzt herausgefunden, dass die Emissionen von Kiefernwäldern eine Art “Klebstoff” für die Bildung von Wolkenkondensationskernen liefern und dass Ionen zur Stabilisierung beitragen. Die neuen Ergebnisse erscheinen aktuell in der renommierten Fachzeitschrift Science.

Im letzten Bericht des “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” (IPCC) wurde darauf hingewiesen, dass in heutigen Klimamodellen Wolken nach wie vor der größte Unsicherheitsfaktor sind. Voraussetzung, um die Auswirkungen von Wolken auf das Klima besser modellieren zu können, ist es, die Komplexität der Wolkenbildung zu verstehen. Die neue Studie im Rahmen des CLOUD-Experiments (Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets) am CERN gibt nun Aufschluss über den ersten Schritt der Wolkenbildung und trägt damit zu einem besseren Verständnis der Wolken-Klima-Verbindung bei. Mit der CLOUD-Kammer können Wolkenbildungs-Experimente präzise durchgeführt und die Zugabe von Chemikalien genau gemessen werden. Auch Parameter wie Temperatur, Druck und Feuchtigkeit können leicht verändert werden. Eine solche Steuerung der Umgebungsbedingungen ist im Feldeinsatz unmöglich. (more…)

Berkeley Lab Scientists See Urgent Need for Reducing Emissions

By Guest PostMay 18, 2014EnvironmentAl Gore, ashok gadgil, asia, auswandern, berkeley lab scientists, china energy group, climate change, co2 concentration, intergovernmental panel, ipcc, jayant sathaye, lynn price, need, nobel peace prize

Lab experts are leading contributors to the IPCC Working Group III’s Fifth Assessment Report on climate change mitigation.

The bad news: a major transformation of our current energy supply system is needed in order to avoid a dangerous increase in global temperatures. The good news: the technologies needed to get there are mostly readily available. These are some of the main conclusions reached by experts from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and their Working Group III co-authors on the Fifth Assessment Report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (more…)

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