by Admin | Apr 21, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Trees have a much more social existence than we thought, according to new research by scientists from the University of Basel in Switzerland. It turns out that trees trade stored carbon between themselves, through the use of symbiotic fungi in the soil. Not only do...
by Admin | Mar 24, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Predicting climate change, and the effects thereof, has never been easy. Generally, when scientists need to figure out how something like that will play out, they look to the past to see how things have gone before. That’s precisely what a team from the University of...
by Admin | Jan 27, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
One of the many side effects of global climate change is something called hypercapnia. It’s a phenomenon in which fish and other marine creatures become “intoxicated” due to an overabundance of carbon dioxide in the water. While the idea of intoxicated fish might seem...
by Admin | Dec 11, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change, Conservation
Forests help to offset carbon emissions by trapping carbon within trees, and when scientists and policy makers discuss emissions goals, they take this fact into consideration, hedging on forests to help offset what we produce. Unfortunately, according to a new study...
by Admin | Dec 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
You don’t have to be a hard-core vegetarian or animal rights activist to find meatless Monday appealing, in fact, many people are incorporating meatless Mondays into their weekly routines for an endless number of reasons such as helping the environment or as part of a...
