UAA Biologist At Center of Predation And Climate Change Management with His Caribou Research
Posted On Thursday, February 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ALASKA Tags: Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain, Climate change, INNOVATE Award money, Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, UAA biologist Don Spalinger
Two to three years ago there was a flurry of controversy over aerial wolf hunting on Unimak Island in Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain. Not the first controversy of predator management in Alaska (and it probably won't be the last), but this particular scenario ended in a decision to instead do ...
UF/IFAS Virus Study May Signal Trouble For Biological Populations Facing Climate Change
Posted On Saturday, February 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: Agricultural Sciences, Climate change, Florida Medical Entomology Lab, University of Florida, Yale University
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Aside from rising sea levels, many climate change models predict that in the future, the planet’s temperature and weather will become increasingly erratic with wild, unpredictable storms and fluctuating conditions.
A new study from researchers at the University of Florida and Yale University and published today by the ...
Climate Change To Profoundly Affect The Midwest
Posted On Monday, January 21, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MICHIGAN Tags: Agriculture, biodiversity, Climate change, ecosystems, Energy, flooded urban street, forests, human health, Transportation, Water
ANN ARBOR—Climate change will lead to more frequent and more intense Midwest heat waves while degrading air and water quality and threatening public health. Intense rainstorms and floods will become more common, and existing risks to the Great Lakes will be exacerbated.
Those are some of the conclusions contained in the ...
Environmental Attorney Says Regulatory Reform Needed In The Quest For Renewable Energy Alternatives
Posted On Friday, January 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MAINE Tags: Climate change, Environmental Law, Jeffrey Thaler, Thaler examines, University of Maine
Amid the economic and environmental realities of fossil fuel dependence in the United States, regulatory processes need immediate reform to allow renewable energy initiatives such as offshore wind to provide alternatives, according to the University of Maine’s first School of Economics Visiting Professor of Energy Law and Policy.
Indeed, argues Jeffrey ...
Study of Southern Ocean Critical to Understanding of Climate Change
Posted On Thursday, January 3, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW JERSEY Tags: Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Climate change, Geoscience, Jorge Sarmiento, Ocean critical, Princeton Environmental Institute
Whether it's the economics of clean energy, the politics of Washington or claims over the severity of the problem itself, the debate over climate change is loud and crowded. One aspect that often goes overlooked is the Southern Ocean ringing Antarctica at the bottom of the globe. But that, says ...
North Central Climate Science Center Hosts Ribbon Cutting For New CSU Research Facility
Posted On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 By USA Education News. Under COLORADO Tags: Climate change, Climate Science Center, Dennis Ojima, Matt Larsen, NCCSC
Monday, October 01, 2012
FORT COLLINS - Climate change has become one of the most important and contentiously debated global issues facing society today, and the North Central Climate Science Center (NC CSC) is hosting a ribbon-cutting event and reception to mark the construction and launch of its new facility at Colorado ...