Monday, October 28, 2013

Incredible remote world discovered

Australia may be more untaimed then most of us realize. The Dewy rainforest of Austrlias cape Melville has been completely isolated from human touch, that is until a scientist and his team was able to use the power of satellites and expensive helicopter involvement to locate a small group of scientist on the very fringe of this mountainous wilderness. The rainforest is entirely surrounded by a large of house sized boulders that make access to the Melville rainforest impossible. Upon their first voyage to the area they successfully identified more than 20 times of previously unknown species and those previously thought to be extinct.

http://gizmodo.com/incredible-remote-lost-world-discovered-with-never-befo-1453492704

Sunday, October 20, 2013

30 Year-Old Dream Comes True With The Construction Of Israel’s Biggest Solar Power Plant

Perhaps one of the finest examples of renewable energy being utilized on a large scale is the Brightsource Heliostat. Breaking ground within the next 12 months, this large scale solar energy project is set to power more than 40,000 israeli homes from its location in the Negev desert of southern Israel. The the company was originally founded in Israel more than 15 years ago and after a multi-million-dollar buyout by a smaller American company, rightsource was formed. Brightsource is currently in the process of undertaking similar smaller scale project in the desert of California, however; the Israeli project crown jewel the company that you can likely that the path for other future solar endeavors.

http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/46559

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Without Plants, Earth Would Cook Under Billions of Tons of Additional Carbon

Scientists and botanists alike agree that plants, but more specifically trees, are single handily responsible for helping to keep our planet from growing hot due to build up of carbon in our atmosphere. Starting again in the mid-twentieth century, americans in particular began to concern themselves with conservation and began major initiatives to grow our forests. The growth in forests over the last 70 years has been estimated to have cut down close to 192 billion tons of carbon in our atmosphere that would otherwise be threatening to our global temperatures.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131016145646.htm

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Nitrogen Fixation

Need nitrogen fixing bacteria in places such as panama have begun to decline in their productivity and even existence for as deforestation begins to become more rampant in places such as Panama, the amount of bacteria that is coexisting with the vast root systems of trees native to the regions are beginning to decrease. Without the needed root nitrogen being dissolved the soil will become less furtle  and may become to infertile to support the needs of local vegetation that relies heavily on such abiotic factors.

http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/46522

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

No more Superstorm Sandys expected for a long time

Global warming and major superstorms might well be working against one another. With the climate changing scientists have begun to change their predictions for how hurricanes and tropical storms might affect the northeast United States in coming years. With conditions changing due to atmospheric and oceanic elevated temperatures throughout the region, storms like the infamous "Superstorm Sandy" likely will become even more of a rarity than it was to begin with. Ironically scientists that claim such a theory also account for the storms that will occur as being far more powerful than in the past, but will likely be deflected off into the mid-atlantic rather than make landfall again.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/352923/description/No_more_Superstorm_Sandys_expected_for_a_long_time