http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. UK wildlife is already feeling the effects of climate change, scientists say. According to a report out on Thursday, with input from many of the UK's top environmental scientists, many species are now found further north and at higher altitudes than in previous decades. http://phys.org/news287298142.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 May 2013 06:02:30 EST news287298142 (Phys.org) —Most emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) that affect humans originated in animals. However, epidemiologists have been unable to identify the sources of zoonotic diseases until after they have already infected humans. Using network science, Jose M. Gomez and his colleagues at the University of Granada, the University of Valencia and Harvard University have developed a method for predicting which species are most likely to transmit EIDs to humans. Their research appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://phys.org/news285934918.html Biology Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:26:25 EST news285934918 Four leading environmental scientists today urged the international community to install a legal trade in rhino horn – in a last ditch effort to save the imperilled animals from extinction. http://phys.org/news281280973.html Biology Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:00:04 EST news281280973 Jennifer Pournelle is continuing to build the case that natural wetlands, rather than irrigated fields, are the fertile ground from which cities initially emerged in Mesopotamia. And her conclusions about the importance of wetlands to a sustainable urban environment – or, in fact, any environment – have particular resonance in southern Iraq. That area is both the site of her studies and the region where Saddam Hussein forcibly drained marshes to drive out the local populace after the first Gulf war. http://phys.org/news268644750.html Space & Earth Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:32:36 EST news268644750 Leading Australian environmental scientists have helped to establish the first global list of threatened ecosystems at an international conservation summit. http://phys.org/news267088621.html Biology Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:17:12 EST news267088621 (Phys.org)—After being virtually wiped out during a flood in 2005 in Wolf Point Creek, Alaska, salmon, meiofauna and most macroinvertebrates all re-colonized within two years, according to research published by University of Birmingham environmental scientists in the journal Nature Climate Change today. http://phys.org/news265877142.html Space & Earth Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:46:20 EST news265877142 Sunscreens, lotions, and cosmetics contain tiny metal nanoparticles that wash down the drain at the end of the day, or are discharged after manufacturing. Those nanoparticles eventually end up in agricultural soil, which is a cause for concern, according to a group of environmental scientists that recently carried out the first major study of soybeans grown in soil contaminated by two manufactured nanomaterials (MNMs). http://phys.org/news264694962.html Space & Earth Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:22:56 EST news264694962 (Phys.org) -- With up to a billion hectares of wilderness likely to be cleared to feed the world in the coming half century and an area the size of China devoured by cities, leading environmental scientists are urging caution over the extent to which lost ecosystems can be replaced or restored. http://phys.org/news263027729.html Biology Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:15:51 EST news263027729 Establishing protection over a swath of land seems like a good way to conserve its species and its ecosystems. But in a new study, University of Pennsylvania biologist Daniel Janzen joins more than 200 colleagues to report that protected areas are still vulnerable to damaging encroachment, and many are suffering from biodiversity loss. http://phys.org/news262439141.html Biology Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:00:09 EST news262439141 Nuclear weapons testing may at first glance appear to have little connection with climate change research. But key Cold War research laboratories and the science used to track radioactivity and model nuclear bomb blasts have today been repurposed by climate scientists. The full story appears in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. http://phys.org/news261392385.html Technology Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:01:06 EST news261392385 (Phys.org) -- Environmental scientists at Harvard have discovered that the Arctic accumulation of mercury, a toxic element, is caused by both atmospheric forces and the flow of circumpolar rivers that carry the element north into the Arctic Ocean. http://phys.org/news256800283.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 May 2012 06:25:12 EST news256800283 Climate scientists, environmental scientists, governmental officials, shipping companies, business owners, farmers—all need access to accurate information about the weather. http://phys.org/news254131202.html Space & Earth Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:00:36 EST news254131202 A group of environmental scientists say a problem-ridden economic model designed to slow deforestation can be improved by applying key concepts from the insurance industry. http://phys.org/news253966687.html Space & Earth Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:18:13 EST news253966687 Recent cuts to the scientific workforce of Environment Canada, a government agency responsible for meteorological services and environmental research, threaten scientific research related to the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere and pollution in the lower atmosphere, according to environmental scientists in the U.S. These reductions in personnel and projected budget cuts also threaten existing international agreements. http://phys.org/news248353578.html Space & Earth Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:06:23 EST news248353578 One hundred years ago, two teams of explorers raced to be the first to reach the South Pole. Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911. http://phys.org/news241793575.html Space & Earth Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:53:07 EST news241793575 (PhysOrg.com) -- Under better conditions coastal ecosystems might be the ace in the hole to mitigate climate change, but human activity is significantly weakening their ability to naturally dampen the impacts of rising CO2 levels according to a new study by Sydney environmental scientists. http://phys.org/news240657522.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:18:51 EST news240657522 Over the past 50 years, 60 percent of all ecosystem services have declined as a direct result of the conversion of land to the production of foods, fuels and fibers. http://phys.org/news239549102.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:20:01 EST news239549102 A Kansas State University geographer is part of a research team out to prove what environmental scientists have suspected for years: Increasing the production of soybean and biofuel crops in Brazil increases deforestation in the Amazon. http://phys.org/news229860419.html Space & Earth Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:07:12 EST news229860419 A new paper appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggests that people, governments, and institutions that shape the way people interact may be just as important for determining environmental conditions as the environmental processes themselves. http://phys.org/news222097238.html Space & Earth Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:41:01 EST news222097238