News: Earth & Climate — Environmental Policy

20160505_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20160402_rev01 · ARCHIVE SNAPSHOT, DATE APPROXIMATE

Full text changes — 20160402_rev01 to 20160505_rev01

1### [Survey Gives Clearer View of Risky Leaks from Gas Mains](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160328133733.htm)
1### [Innovative Clothing Companies More Capable in Implementing Sustainability Throughout Their Supply Networks](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160502082826.htm)
22
3Mar. 28, 2016 - Precise measurements of leaks from natural gas pipelines across metropolitan Boston have demonstrated that almost a sixth of the leaks qualified as potentially explosive, and that a handful of leaks ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160328133733.htm)
3May 2, 2016 - Companies with a great capacity for innovation turn out to be more dedicated to improving social sustainability aspects. Researchers have investigated the sustainability strategies of clothing ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160502082826.htm)
44
55- * *
66
7### [Insurance for an Uncertain Climate](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160324082824.htm)
7Apr. 28, 2016 - Over 300 million people worldwide use groundwater contaminated with arsenic or fluoride as a source of drinking water. Now a research team has developed a method whereby the risk of contamination in ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160428094707.htm)
88
9Mar. 24, 2016 - The application of insurance as a mechanism to help vulnerable people adapt to the impacts of climate change is gaining international support. Experts support the idea but warn of potential ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160324082824.htm)
10
119- * *
1210
13### [Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential from Livestock Sector Revealed](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160322110417.htm)
11### [Home Movers More Likely to Be Green Commuters, Study Finds](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160427151202.htm)
1412
15Mar. 22, 2016 - Scientists have found that the global livestock sector can maintain the economic and social benefits it delivers while significantly reducing emissions, and in doing so help meet the global ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160322110417.htm)
13Apr. 27, 2016 - People who have just moved house are significantly less likely to travel to work by car, opting for a greener mode of transport instead, a study of 18,000 UK residents has ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160427151202.htm)
1614
1715- * *
1816
19### [Monitoring Greenhouse Gas Emissions Independently](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160322082038.htm)
17### [Landscape Ecology Must Play a Role in Policymaking](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160427150339.htm)
2018
21Mar. 22, 2016 - Mistakes can happen when estimating emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. Researchers have developed a method to independently validate national ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160322082038.htm)
19Apr. 27, 2016 - Landscape ecology considers the influence of time and space on environmental patterns. Because of this focus, it is uniquely positioned to inform crucial policy decisions -- in particular, those ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160427150339.htm)
2220
2321- * *
2422
25Mar. 21, 2016 - Heatwaves from Europe to China are likely to be more intense and result in maximum temperatures that are 3 degrees Celsius to 5 degrees Celsius warmer than previously estimated by the middle of the ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160321200327.htm)
23### [Framing Discourse Around Conservative Values Shifts Climate Change Attitudes](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160425143307.htm)
2624
25Apr. 25, 2016 - Conservatives' attitudes toward climate change and other environmental concerns shift when the issues are reframed in terms more closely aligned with their values, a new study ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160425143307.htm)
26
2727- * *
2828
29Mar. 21, 2016 - Pioneering new research shows that existing studies have massively under-valued the risk that ongoing carbon dioxide emissions pose of triggering damaging tipping ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160321123553.htm)
29Apr. 25, 2016 - While environmental issues are often cited as a major factor in cities and towns in pursuing sustainability, a new study shows that economic concerns can be just as important to local governments in ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160425143304.htm)
3030
3131- * *
3232
33### [Protecting 30 Percent of the Ocean Has Many Benefits, Study Suggests](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160321110448.htm)
33### [Environmental Impacts of Demand-Side Technologies, Strategies for Carbon Mitigation](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160425143112.htm)
3434
35Mar. 21, 2016 - Protecting large stretches of the ocean from human influence may well be good for conservation. But a new study suggests that setting aside at least 30 percent of it would also benefit fishermen and ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160321110448.htm)
35Apr. 25, 2016 - A new article aims to advance our understanding of life cycle environmental and natural resource implications of energy efficiency ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160425143112.htm)
3636
3737- * *
3838
39Mar. 18, 2016 - China's sweeping program to restore forests across the country is working. The vast destruction of China's forests, leveled after decades of logging, floods and conversion to farmland, has ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160318181617.htm)
39### [Changing Climate Conditions in Michigan Pose an Emerging Public Health Threat](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160425100427.htm)
4040
41- * *
41Apr. 25, 2016 - Changing climate conditions-including warmer temperatures and an increased frequency of heavy rainstorms-represent "an emerging threat to public health in Michigan," according to a new ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160425100427.htm)
4242
43Mar. 18, 2016 - Using a new approach scientists have found that China's "climate responsibility", is not as significant as initially estimated. However, rather paradoxically, the latter country's ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160318090438.htm)
44
4543- * *
4644
47### [Expanding Use of Recycled Water Would Benefit the Environment, Human Health](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160318091012.htm)
45Apr. 22, 2016 - Staghorns, the very corals responsible for establishing today's reefs, are now some of the most threatened coral species due to climate change and other human-made ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160422163142.htm)
4846
49Mar. 18, 2016 - Expanding the use of recycled water would reduce water and energy use, cut greenhouse gas emissions and benefit public health in California - which is in the midst of a severe drought - and ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160318091012.htm)
50
5147- * *
5248
53Mar. 17, 2016 - A recent article provides the first comprehensive inventory of the world's biological field stations. Its authors report 1,268 stations are operating in 120 countries -- from the tropics to the ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160317185223.htm)
49Apr. 22, 2016 - Climate change is likely to worsen the situation of the largely drought-stricken hypersaline Urmia Lake in Iran. Even in the most optimistic climate change scenario and without any further human ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160422075421.htm)
5450
5551- * *
5652
57### [Adaptation to Increasing Flood Risk in Europe Should Aim to Reduce Impact](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160317151136.htm)
53### [Better Data Needed to Stop Sixth Mass Extinction](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160421145750.htm)
5854
59Mar. 17, 2016 - Scientists investigated the benefits of four adaptation measures to reduce the increasing flood risk in Europe under state-of-the-art global warming projections under a high-end climate scenario. ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160317151136.htm)
55Apr. 21, 2016 - To prevent a new mass extinction of the world's animal and plant life, we need to understand the threats to biodiversity, where they occur and how quickly change is happening. For this to ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160421145750.htm)
6056
6157- * *
6258
63Mar. 17, 2016 - Following President Obama's plans to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a conservation biologist and a professor of law are proposing to transform the naval base into a marine ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160317145903.htm)
59### [1.5 C Vs 2 C Global Warming: New Study Shows Why Half a Degree Matters](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160421085218.htm)
6460
61Apr. 21, 2016 - Researchers have found substantially different climate change impacts for a global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C by 2100, the two temperature limits included in the Paris climate agreement. The ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160421085218.htm)
62
6563- * *
6664
67### [Water Flow in Mediterranean Rivers to Fall by 34 Percent by the End of the Century, Study Predicts](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160317110137.htm)
65### [City, Corporate Actions Are Crucial to Global Climate Response, Researchers Say](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160420162945.htm)
6866
69Mar. 17, 2016 - The rising global average temperature induced by climate change will cause regions such as the Mediterranean Basin to become drier and more arid, in turn directly affecting the availability of water, ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160317110137.htm)
67Apr. 20, 2016 - When envoys from more than 130 nations, including 60 world leaders, convened to sign the Paris Climate Change Agreement, this historic deal was bolstered by contributions from hundreds of city mayors ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160420162945.htm)
7068
7169- * *
7270
73### [Can Improved Agricultural Practices Help Combat Climate Change?](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160317095118.htm)
71### [New Tool Calculates Economic Costs of Methane Leak Detection](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160420162705.htm)
7472
75Mar. 17, 2016 - Did you know that over half of global non-carbon dioxide (non-CO2) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are accountable to agriculture? According to new a research study, this figure is set to rise ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160317095118.htm)
73Apr. 20, 2016 - The 'virtual gas field simulator' calculates the economic costs of different technologies for plugging and repairing leaky natural gas wells. In recent years, there has been a growing ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160420162705.htm)
7674
7775- * *
7876
79Mar. 17, 2016 - Life in the twilight zone constitutes a huge potential source of fishmeal and Omega 3 fatty acids needed to feed the world population. However, it exists in a kind of "no man's water", ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160317095015.htm)
77Apr. 20, 2016 - Much of the world may cringe as lemurs are hunted and killed or when entire forests are burnt and harvested for charcoal. However, if local residents don't perceive the actions as crimes or they ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160420104155.htm)
8078
8179- * *
8280
83### [Plants' Ability to Adapt Could Change Conventional Wisdom on Climate Change](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160317094740.htm)
81### [Improving Carbon Dioxide Storage Using Hospital Scanner](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160420090052.htm)
8482
85Mar. 17, 2016 - Plants speed up their respiratory metabolism as temperatures rise, leading to a long-held concern that as climate warms the elevated carbon release from a ramped-up metabolism could flip global ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160317094740.htm)
83Apr. 20, 2016 - PET scanning is an effective tool for improved oil production and carbon dioxide storage, new research shows. PET scans are well known from the health service and the researchers were investigating ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160420090052.htm)
8684
8785- * *
8886
89Mar. 16, 2016 - Hype followed by disappointment: That's been the general pattern over the past few decades when an alternative fuel is presented to the public. It's a fuel du jour phenomenon, from methanol ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160316151526.htm)
87Apr. 14, 2016 - More than 700 million people worldwide have no running water. A new study shows that a tax on carbon dioxide could help remedy this situation while contributing considerably to climate ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160414214812.htm)
9088
9189- * *
9290
93### [How More Research and Development Funding Can Hasten Green Revolution](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160315153327.htm)
91Apr. 14, 2016 - A series of seismic surveys for oil and gas planned for the mid- and southeastern Atlantic coastal areas of the United States pose a substantial threat to one of the world's most endangered whale ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160414145645.htm)
9492
95Mar. 15, 2016 - A uniquely detailed model of the dynamics of innovation in the energy industry has been explained in a new article. In so doing, researchers indicate how supporting clean energy R&D, not just a ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160315153327.htm)
93- * *
9694
95### [Using Data to Protect Coral Reefs from Climate Change](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160413140116.htm)
96
97Apr. 13, 2016 - Coral reefs are early casualties of climate change, but not every coral reacts the same way to the stress of ocean warming. Researchers have developed the first-ever quantitative 'global ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160413140116.htm)
98
9799- * *
98100
99Mar. 15, 2016 - The expansion of protected areas into US federal waters would safeguard 100 percent of core home range areas used by three species of sharks tracked in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, new research ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160315132134.htm)
101Apr. 12, 2016 - Global carbon dioxide emissions are triggering permanent changes to ocean chemistry along the North American West Coast that require immediate, decisive action to combat. That action includes ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160412211612.htm)
100102
101103- * *