Science

Much of the time we focus primarily on the climate and how it is affecting our ecosystems. However, in doing so, we manage to overlook issues that we have brought with us as we’ve conquered other lands for centuries; invasive plants. A new study to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of

These days we are bombarded with countless reports of climate models predicting every side of the coin. Warmer waters will both increase and decrease the chance of hurricanes making landfall in the US, according to whatever model you want to base your opinion on. But these are all smooth projections, and do not allow for

Every now and then what we know and thought we knew about science gets turned on its head. And while this particular story isn’t necessary as head-turning as some, it is definitely throwing the academic world in to a spin. According to new research to be published on the 23rd in Geophysical Research Letters, the

I vaguely remember mentioning recently my love affair with New England. The postcard shots of the streets strewn with autumn leaves make me happy. One day hope I to live there, but according to new research, the northern forests may be losing their autumn coloring earlier. Published in a recent issue of the journal Global

The social news aggregator Digg is my friend, in so many ways. It provides me with a good 25% of the stories that I write here, and almost triple that for the other sites at which I am employed. So when I saw the heading “Nobel Winner Speech Canceled Over Global Warming Controversy” I hoped

I remember as a young boy my mother took me and my brother on a mystery tour. We weren’t a well off single parent family, as you could imagine, and so we didn’t go more than 2 hours outside of Melbourne city proper. We went to visit, amongst other things, the coal-fired power station in

As mentioned elsewhere (I think) I’m an aspiring author; that’s why I write professionally, so that I have money to write my own stuff. 2006 saw me write and complete my first and currently unpublished novel, set in New England. Why did I set it in New England, a place I’d never been? Because the

New studies will continue to pop up as long as we’re alive, I can guarantee you that. There is always something new for us to find, especially on a planet that changes as much as ours does, and already has. So sometimes it’s a little hard to give all our attention to every new study

Over the past 6 or 8 months the idea of ocean fertilization has been raised many times as a possible scenario to help end – or at least provide assistance to the end – of global warming. However according to a new study conducted by researchers at Stanford and Oregon State Universities such a scheme

It won’t come as a surprise that global warming as a result of man-made global emissions is up for debate. The controversy is really just beginning, and we all know someone who believes something different to us, whether that be in favor of or against man-made global warming. Sadly, the debates that springs from such

I have commented a lot in the past on the dead zones that infiltrate our oceans, advertising yet another misuse of the planet God, Mother Nature, or whomever you believe granted us the use of this planet. It is an even further trajesty (a mix of travesty and tragedy) that though we have what is

2007 is hardly a memory in our minds but already British forecasters are predicting that 2008 will be another member of the Top 10 hottest years since 1850 club. Thus, they say, there is no indication that global warming is on the wane; much is the pity! The Met Office and experts at the University

The title says it all, but not all of us necessarily realize what it is saying. I sure had to do a quick bit of Googling to decipher what terrestrial ecosystems were. But it wasn’t a hard find, once I realized it was simply a nice broad term for much of what grows in the

Never let it be said that we at the Green Options network only focus on promoting the idea of 100% man-made global warming. As a recent study has shown, man may not be the only one to blame, although without a doubt we haven’t helped matters all that much. We all saw what happened to

One might ask, by looking at this title, just what good there can be that comes from methane. Not only is it the smelly export product of the world’s beef population, but it is also a more potent warmer of the planet’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Well, there isn’t much good to say about methane.

The warming of an entire planet has dire consequences for everyone. Symptoms begin to appear all across a planet, from an extension of the tropical belt to increasing ocean levels. But the areas most likely to be hit hardest are the frozen poles. This is indeed the case for us here on Earth, and given