• AEI commentary on Wisconsin Gov wind plan featured on Renewable Energy World

    Updated: 2011-01-31 21:06:22
    Jan 24 AEI commentary on Wisconsin Gov wind plan featured on Renewable Energy World Default Add comments Check out the Renewable Energy World front page today , and you’ll find a commentary I submitted over the weekend featured there . If it fades off the front page , here’s the direct link Leave a Reply Name Email not required and not published Website Subscribe to AEInews.org by Email Links Log in Science research programs Sound-related organizations AEI Special Reports AEInews on your website Categories Animal Communication 15 Arts 11 Bioacoustics 22 Default 20 Effects of Noise on Wildlife 35 Health 19 Human impacts 70 News 165 Ocean 77 Science 86 Science Conferences 2 Seismic Surveys 30 shipping 15 Sonar 65 Vehicles 15 Wildlands 18 Wind turbines 96 Archives January 2011 December 2010

  • Great SciAmer blog post on animals adapting to human noise

    Updated: 2011-01-31 21:06:22
    Jan 24 Great SciAmer blog post on animals adapting to human noise Animal Communication Bioacoustics Effects of Noise on Wildlife Add comments Jump on over to Scientific American to read this great overview of the many different ways that animals are using to adapt to increasing human noise in their habitats . The author is an NYU science reporting student , and she promises a new sound blog soon on Scienceline Can you hear me now Animals all over the world are finding interesting ways to get around the human din Leave a Reply Name Email not required and not published Website Subscribe to AEInews.org by Email Links Log in Science research programs Sound-related organizations AEI Special Reports AEInews on your website Categories Animal Communication 15 Arts 11 Bioacoustics 22 Default 20

  • 2010 Global Temperature Warmest on Record

    Updated: 2011-01-31 05:11:06
    Ties 2005 as the warmest year in recorded history. Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on record, according to researchers at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The temperatures between the two years differed less than 0.018 degrees Fahrenheit. The next warmest years are 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 [...]

  • Is Yellowstone Ready to Blow?

    Updated: 2011-01-29 03:11:07
    Supervolcano: So is the "swelling magma reservoir" ready to blow? Well, scientists say it will eventually--and when it does it could spew ash as high as 25 miles into the air, rendering an estimated two-thirds of the country uninhabitable....

  • Friday Night at the Movies | Frans Lanting’s Lyrical Nature Photos

    Updated: 2011-01-28 05:01:48
    “Nature’s my muse”, begins celebrated nature photographer Frans Lanting, as he introduces The LIFE Project, his poetic collection of photographs, from a personal journey to a remote lagoon in Australia, that reveals the story of life through time. The piece is accompanied by a haunting soundtrack by Philip Glass. About Frans Lanting

  • Call of the Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker

    Updated: 2011-01-27 13:47:27
    Dato’ Dr Amar-Singh HSS photographed the male Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum cruentatum) and recorded his call on 25th December 2010 at his Canning Garden home in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia – HERE. This is a common garden flowerpecker that Amar takes delight in observing and photographing. The bird is very approachable and at times even when approached [...]

  • Japanese White-eye eats Carmona retusa fruit

    Updated: 2011-01-26 09:25:47
    Jason Cho’s image of the Japanese White-eye (Zosterops japonica) shows the bird about to swallow a fruit of Carmona retusa (Boraginaceae). This is small shrub of the Old World tropics with clusters of small, simple and toothed leaves that are covered with short rigid hairs. Flowers are small and white and fruits roundish, 5-6 mm [...]

  • Environmentalism = Social Justice

    Updated: 2011-01-25 18:57:42
    Of course it does.  Is this news? An "ism" means whatever you want it to mean.  Or, at very least, whatever you have the means and wherewithal to promote....

  • Increasing demands threaten future food security

    Updated: 2011-01-24 11:23:25
    Today scientists warned that rising pressures on global resources threaten the future security of the planets food, after the results of the most comprehensive investigation into food security ever were published this morning. Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir John Beddington emphasised the need for urgent action in response to increasing demands for food today, as the current [...]

  • Will Melting Sea Ice Bring About Extinction for the Emperor Penguin, Or Will The Species Adapt?

    Updated: 2011-01-24 05:00:43
    Emperor penguins could be headed toward extinction in at least part of their range before the end of the century, according to a recent study by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). If climate change continues to melt sea ice at the rates published in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the median population size [...]

  • Leave it to beaver

    Updated: 2011-01-21 17:05:31
    Brother Stanley Petrowski links beavers to successful coho salmon habitats and, ultimately, happy forests (and people) in the Eugene Weekly....

  • The Most Earth-like Planet Ever Found

    Updated: 2011-01-21 05:00:55
    Imagine the very real possibility of life on another “earth,” with temperatures like our own planet, available water, oxygen and all the other right essentials to support life like ours.  Such a planet could very well have been discovered by astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile. It’s called Gliese 581-C found in the [...]

  • A Picture of How Small We Are

    Updated: 2011-01-20 05:00:35
    47 Billion Light Years! This is a very large number, and a distance practically incomprehensible.  It happens to be how far we have now seen into space where, still, billions and billions of stars exist and undoubtedly billions with planets orbiting them… just like our own planet orbiting around our own star. It is mind numbing [...]

  • Severe Global Water Shortages Seen Taking Root in Developing Nations

    Updated: 2011-01-18 05:00:57
    The near absence of fresh water for the human population is already beginning to impact many sectors of the world, notably with the current situation in India. By the year 2020, most major Indian cities are projected to run dry, according to data from the World Bank. Severe water shortage had already led to a [...]

  • Mega-Disasters

    Updated: 2011-01-18 02:05:50
    Superstorm Could Strike California Poison Space Clouds New Madrid Fault Waking Up? I tend to think more people should be worrying about these things than football or texting their friends that they are doing nothing of importance. -DD...

  • Friday Night at the Movies | TED Talk: Are Mushrooms the New Plastic?

    Updated: 2011-01-14 05:01:44
    Eben Bayer details how his company turns agricultural waste into fully biodegradable packing material, literally grown from a fungus. Bayer’s packing material could reduce the production and disposal of polystyrene. Eben Bayer’s Bio

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