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Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Scientists exploring the speed and scope of climate change have often looked at flora and fauna in a particular region as a major indicator. Many of these plant species will adjust their inner clock leading to earlier and earlier periods of bloom. However, not all biological life forms are able to adjust to a change in climate so quickly, according to a recent report published by the European Environmental Agency. It is for this...

As temperatures slowly rise melting the snow and releasing accumulated contaminants into the environment, Chesapeake Plumbing, Inc. is offering Maryland residents water analysis and water treatment services. Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) February 28, 2013 In an effort to help homeowners lead a healthier lifestyle and prolong the life of their plumbing systems, Chesapeake Plumbing, Inc. has expanded its services to include water analysis and water treatment. Joining the list of companies who...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The development of an increasingly integrated global economy, one that has seen the increase of free trade, free flow of capital, and which has tapped cheaper foreign labor markets has offered huge potential profits for businesses and even nations. But it could come at a significant cost. With the rise of a global economy, or globalization, comes the rise of the risk of global contamination. The World Health Organization (WHO) has...

ESA [ Watch The Video Sea-Surface Salinity and Currents ] ESA’s water mission is shedding new light on the meandering Gulf Stream, just one of the SMOS satellite’s numerous achievements. Launched in 2009, ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite has been helping us to understand the water cycle. Over the past three years it has been providing more accurate information on global soil moisture and ocean salinity. New results unveiled today in Spain show that SMOS...

Pensoft Publishers The tropics are home to an extraordinary diversity of insect species. How great is it, exactly? We do not know, but today, researchers at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History published a study on tropical beetles that can help us progress towards an answer to this question. The paper was published in the open access, peer-reviewed journal Zookeys. Entomologists Michael Caterino and Alexey Tishechkin have named 138 new species within the genus Operclipygus (the...

NEW YORK, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dimension Data, the $5.8 billion global IT services and solutions provider, has been commended by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for its approach to climate change disclosure in 2012. This is the fifth consecutive year that Dimension Data has submitted information about its sustainability strategy to the CDP. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120402/NE80686LOGO ) CDP is an international not-for-profit organization providing the...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously said “that which does kill us makes us stronger,” but apparently he didn’t understand the complexities of biodiversity. If he had, he might have noted that extinction could influence biodiversity as much as evolution. This is what researchers at the University of Melbourne and the University of Tasmania have discovered while examining plant diversity in South East Australia. Their...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Global climate has shifted countless times during the course of Earth’s history and a group of Canadian scientists has found the biodiversity patterns of today’s tropical mountain regions were present in British Columbia about 50 million years ago. According to the team’s report in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, their findings confirm a theory about modern species diversity across mountain ranges, and provide...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Abtech Holdings, Inc. (OTC QB: ABHD) ("AbTech" or the "Company"), a full-service environmental technologies and engineering firm dedicated to providing innovative solutions to communities, industry and governments addressing issues of water pollution and contamination, today announced that it has received notification of an award to upgrade an outflow pipe discharging into a beach located on the shores of the Great Lakes using...

Biodiversity statistics reveal mixed results in Court makeup Although the current Supreme Court has been criticized for its lack of diversity on the bench, the Court is actually more diverse overall today than ever in history, according to a new study that borrows statistical methods from ecology to reveal a more precise picture of diversity. The study, which appears in the online edition of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, examines seven categories of diversity for every Supreme...