Topic: Research
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. // Max Planck
Do You Like It Hotter
Sep 26, 2006
When global temperature rises 1°C next decades the 400,000 years old record from Holocene is outranged. During the Middle Pliocene about three million years ago Earth was only 23°C warmer than today and sea level was 2535m higher. Are we going ...>>
Population
Sep 21, 2006
A new report by the Center for Environment and Population (CEP) demonstrates the relationship between national population trends, resource consumption, and environmental degradation.
Quoted from Introduction:
Global environmental changes are occurring in ...>>
Sea Level
Sep 12, 2006
Giles Tremlett writes in The Guardian about vanishing sand beaches caused by rising sea levels in Spain.
In a report for the Ministry of Environment Professor Raúl Medina prospects some areas will loose up to 5o meters until 2050. Around spain the sea lev ...>>
Fruit Flies
Sep 2, 2006
Drosophila are small flies found all around the world. Most of them like warm conditions and others your fruit bowl.
The european specie Drosophila Subobscura invaded the Pacific Coast of Chile 1978 probably using fruit cargo ships. In North America they a ...>>
Phenology
Aug 26, 2006
A new research, led by Dr Annette Menzel from the Technical University Munich in Germany and Dr Tim Sparks of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire focused on phenology - the timing of natural events.
The analysis of 125,000 rec ...>>
Fuel Consumption
Nov 3, 2005
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
By using a coupled climate and carbon cycle model to look at global climate and carbon cycle changes, the scientists found that the earth would warm by 8 degrees Celsius (14.5 degrees Fahrenheit) if humans use the entir ...>>
