by Admin | Jun 23, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change, Conservation
As humans have known for millennia, and as many authors have reminded us, city life is hard–but it has some advantages. The same turns out to be true for bees, who suffer from a higher rate of parasites in urban environments, but pollinate more plants than they...
by Admin | Jun 21, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Scottish researchers have been looking at ancient rocks to learn more about reducing climate change. Throughout the world, there are underground pockets of CO2, which are securely and safely held without the gases escaping to the atmosphere. While this is something...
by Admin | Jun 13, 2016 | Articles, Conservation
Bees evolve to specialize in different kinds of pollen for a variety of reasons. Some specializations arise from the availability of plants within a species’ range, while it turns out that some may develop as a response to parasitic activity. Sunflowers, which include...
by Admin | Jun 8, 2016 | Articles, Environmental hazards
Ethane is an air pollutant and greenhouse gas, which tends to break down low in the atmosphere and can lead to an increase in ground-based pollution, posing both health and environmental risks. Back in the 1970s, a number of systems were put into place, which...
by Admin | Jun 6, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
A recent study from Purdue University has found that bees collect the vast majority of their pollen from uncultivated crops, but that they still come into contact with a lot of pesticides and herbicides which pose a threat to them. While bees do collect pollen from...
by Admin | Jun 3, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Some new research from the University of Washington and MIT has some bad news for climate deniers, but good news for the climate. For some time, we’ve known that warming is a lot faster in the Arctic than in Antarctica, but we didn’t know why. Climate deniers, of...
