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How California's Drought Could Spur Ecological Rebirth
2015-06-22 14:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Jennifer and Lawrence Kesteloot like to begin the day with breakfast in their San Francisco backyard garden. For the last several months, theyve had guests: iridescent green-and-red Annas hummingbirds, drawn by wildflowers planted to replace what had been dead brown turf grass and concrete. The Kesteloots hadnt considered hummingbirds when imagining their garden. Mostly they were concerned about not using much water amidst the deprivations and uncertainties of Californias drought. Related:...
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France now heralds ecological revolution: All plastic bags to be banned
2015-05-30 11:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: In month of May in 1789, the simmering debate between the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy on the proposed royal reforms sparked the French revolution. It quickly spilled all over the country. The 'commons' or so called 'Third Estate' started holding their own assembly. Within a space of six months, by December, prison of Bastille and palace of Versailles were stormed and the debate on new structures that included, inter alia, principles of legal equality, began to set in. This week, on May 26,...
Beached iceberg helps reveal ecological impact of sea-ice changes
2015-05-18 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] The grounding of a giant iceberg in Antarctica has provided a unique real-life experiment that has revealed the vulnerability of marine ecosystems to sudden changes in sea-ice cover. UNSW Australia scientists have found that within just three years of the iceberg becoming stuck in Commonwealth Bay - an event which dramatically increased sea-ice cover in the bay - almost all of the seaweed on the sea floor had decomposed, or become discoloured or bleached due to lack of lig…
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Mt Cook Alpine Salmon Honored As World's Best In Ecological Sustainability By Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch
2015-03-18 08:02:16| foodingredientsonline News Articles
Mt Cook Alpine Salmon, farmed in freshwater channels connecting glacial melt water lakes in the Mackenzie Basin of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, is a product in a category of its own after Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch organization announced that its rating for both Freshwater and Marine Farms in New Zealand was that of Green or “BEST CHOICE”
An ecological rule for animals applies to flowers
2015-01-08 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] When, in 1833, Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger published his key observation that warm-blooded animals tend to be more heavily pigmented or darker the closer they live to the equator, he probably didn't realize the degree to which the climate would change in the next 200 years or so. This week, University of Pittsburgh researchers Matthew Koski and Tia-Lynn Ashman proved that the same phenomenon described by Gloger, a German zoologist, exists among flowers. Their paper, “Floral pigmenta…
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