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Climate Change May Stop Invasive Ant Cold

2013-06-28 16:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: An aggressive ant species so vicious that in groups it can eat bird hatchlings alive may see its territory decline in the coming decades as climate change takes its toll on its habitats. Pheidole megacephala, more popularly known as the big-headed ant, has been classified as one of the world's 100 most invasive species, found in every continent except Antarctica. A recent model, however, predicts global warming will slow the ants' march significantly by 2080. "Ants, because they are a cold-blooded...

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Development of Invasive Plant Listings is Subject of Proposed New ASTM Sustainability Standard

2013-05-21 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Proposed standard STM WK40773, Practice for Invasive Plant Listing, will describe criteria and procedures by which to develop invasive plant list for specific geographic region and as foundation for creating such lists to support building codes and related applications. Being developed by Subcommittee E60.01 on Buildings and Construction, standard takes "an important step forward" in preventing the spread of invasive plants" according to E60.01 member Susan Gitlin. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:

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Invasive crazy ants have a taste for technology

2013-05-20 19:54:58| CNET News.com

Tawny crazy ants, which have an attraction to nesting in electronics, are displacing fire ants in parts of the United States. [Read more]

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Climate Change Drives Spread of Invasive Plants in Cuba

2013-04-11 19:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: Botanist Ramona Oviedo has spent decades combing the countryside in Cuba to study and curb the spread of invasive plant species, a serious problem that has been aggravated by climate change. Global warming "can worsen the impact of invasive plant species, which are more resistant than Cuba`s native flora," Oviedo, a researcher at the Ecology and Systematics Institute (IES), said in an interview with IPS. The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity defines invasive alien species as...

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