Environment back issues from September 2007:
The retreat from the coast.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2007; ... According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group on Impacts and Adaptation, the recent National Summit on Coping with Climate Change, and the insightful article by Susan L. Cutter and colleagues in this issue ("The U.S. Hurricane Coasts: Increasingly ...
Environment on film.(BYTES OF NOTE)
Sep 01, 2007; ... To a generation of environmental leaders raised on National Geographic specials (http://www.davidlwolper.com/shows/details.cfm?showID=210), Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (http://www.wildkingdom.com/nostalgia/history.html), and The Undersea World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau ...
Carbon dioxide and plant vulnerability.(SPECTRUM)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]) may have negative effects on the relationship between some plants and herbivorous insects, according to researchers from the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Researchers exposed ...
A new look at urban soil.(SPECTRUM)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The soil beneath urbanites' feet might not be as sterile as expected and is so varied in composition that there is no single "urban soil," according to a new study in Baltimore, MD. The research team, composed of scientists from the USDA Forest Service and the University of Maryland, ...
Common chemicals affect reproduction.(SPECTRUM)
Sep 01, 2007 ... When exposed to low doses of common environmental chemicals through the diet of its mother, a female sheep fetus develops fewer eggs than normal sheep and displays a number of protein anomalies that may be precursors to cancer, according to researchers at the University of Aberdeen in ...
The forests of Greenland.(SPECTRUM)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The southern Greenland ice sheet may be more resilient to rising temperatures than previously thought. Ice cores from 2 kilometers (km) below the surface in southern Greenland contained what is likely to be the oldest authenticated DNA obtained to date. The DNA shows a wide variety of ...
Southern forests and carbon absorption.(SPECTRUM)
Sep 01, 2007 ... New findings are proving contrary to the long-held belief that forests in northern locations absorb more carbon dioxide than their more southerly counterparts. An international team of researchers investigated the commonly held belief that of the nearly 8 billion tons of carbon emitted ...
Heat kills more people than all other weather-related disasters combined, leading to a reported 3,442 deaths from 1999 to 2003.(In Brief)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Heat kills more people than all other weather-related disasters combined, leading to a reported 3,442 deaths from 1999 to 2003. An Environmental Protection Agency--funded study in 4 North American cities ...
The largest known population of an endangered monkey was discovered in the remote Quang Nam province of south-central Vietnam, say conservation biologists with Conservation International and the World Wide Fund for Nature.(In Brief)(grey-shanked doucs)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The largest known population of an endangered monkey was discovered in the remote Quang Nam province of south-central Vietnam, say conservation biologists with Conservation International and the World Wide Fund for Nature. The scientists observed at least 116 grey-shanked doucs (Pygathrix ...
A lake that until recently covered 10 to 12 acres (20,000 square meters) in the mountains in southern Chile has disappeared, say geologists.(In Brief)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... A lake that until recently covered 10 to 12 acres (20,000 square meters) in the mountains in southern Chile has disappeared, say geologists. The unnamed lake, previously fed by meltwater from glaciers in Chile's Bernar-do O'Higgins National Park in Patagonia, ...
The U.S. hurricane coasts: increasingly vulnerable?
Sep 01, 2007; ... The devastating images of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina linger in the American consciousness, fueled by mass media images of the death and destruction. Two years post-event, recovery in many places along the affected Gulf Coast is ...
Shade coffee & tree cover loss: lessons from El Salvador.(Table)
Sep 01, 2007; ... IN CENTRAL AMERICA, shade coffee has often helped to preserve tree cover, along with the ecological services it provides, in areas that are under pressure from ranchers, farmers, loggers, and developers. Over the past two decades, however, declining international coffee prices, rapid ...
California's climate change policy: raising the bar.
Sep 01, 2007; ... LAST YEAR, California's legislature passed one of the most sweeping laws on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, requiring California to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Due to the size of its economy and the amount of GHG emissions it produces, the ...