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| Extinct bees return to Britain -- by way of New Zealand As the world's bee population continues to decline, a rare species of bumblebee that long-since went extinct in its native Britain may soon return to its native shores, thanks to the return of bees from New Zealand. [More] rss.sciam.com |
News Scan Briefs: Do Rain Forests Make Rain? A Lower High-Water MarkThe maximum global sea-level rise from the collapse of the rapidly warming West Antarctic ice sheet may be 3.2 meters--not five meters or more as predicted in the past. The revision comes from a new model suggesting that only parts of the ice sheet will collapse--namely, those that are grounded below sea level or sloping downward. Areas of the sheet grounded above sea level or on upward-sloping bedrock would remain in place. The results, in the May 15 Science, say nothing about disappearing ice sheets elsewhere, however. Greenland, for instance, holds enough ice to raise sea levels by seven meters. --David Biello [More] rss.sciam.com |
Lemur poaching on the rise due to unrest in Madagascar Endangered lemurs have become luxury items on the menus of some Madagascar restaurants, reports Conservation International (CI) and its local partner, the environmental nonprofit Fanamby . [More] rss.sciam.com |
Burying Climate Change: Carbon Gets Stuffed Underground Editor's note: The original online version of this story was previously posted. Over the next five years at least half a million tons of carbon dioxide will be injected into rock deep underneath the Mountaineer power plant near New Haven, W.Va. Although that is less than 0.00001 percent of global emissions of the greenhouse gas and less than 2 percent of the plant’s own CO 2 output, the sequestration, which began in September, marks the first commercial demonstration of the only available technological fix for the carbon problem of coal-fired power plants, one that many coal facilities around the world hope to emulate. [More] rss.sciam.com |
EPA Proposes Tougher Standards for Smog U.S. EPA today proposed significantly tougher smog standards after reconsidering the George W. Bush administration's controversial 2008 regulations.The draft rule released by EPA proposes to revise the two standards aimed at protecting public health and welfare to comply with recommendations made by the agency's science advisers. The Bush administration had rejected those suggestions when issuing the 2008 national air quality standards for ground-level ozone, or smog, drawing criticism and legal challenges from environmental and public health groups. [More] rss.sciam.com |