The United States department of agriculture or known as the (USAD) have given us a notice that California have recently lost an addition of thirty-six million trees across California since the last survey held back this May. But with only this year of 2016 alone we have lost seventy-two million of trees. The U.S. forest service have came up with a plan to help the public concern. They decided to reprioritizing forty-three million dollars in California to restore along roads, trials, and recreational areas. But with limited resource and the climate changing hampers the federal service ability to address the mortality in California.
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Polluted cities such as Belgium have now shown to have a possible means of transmission form of resistance bacteria. A recent researched that has been done in the University of Gothenburg, where they took some air samples from Belgium that contains DNA from genes that make bacteria resistance to even the powerful antibiotics we have available. In this study about 864 samples from humans, animals, and different environment were taken in. During the experiment they found that many of the ones they viewed showed a wide ranged of different DNA that have resistances genes. But what they do not know is if the bacteria are alive within the air and if they are they will become a threat to us.
Who would of thought that sharks can prevent climate change. Scientist from the University of New Bournemouth from the department of life and environmental sciences discovered that over fishing fish and sharks lead to more greenhouse gasses and increase climate change.Removing sharks from the ocean will lead to a massive prey which will lead to greater respiration levels that will eventually lead to higher co2 .Dr. Rick Stafford from the department of life and environment sciences stated in an interview that "we need to be more aware of the importance of mare ecosystem and how will they affect us". These days the market on fishing shark became a great job since the people are demanding more sharks to make shark-fin soup mostly in the far-east area. We must protect these sharks since they are an important part of a functioning ecosystem. But due to the social media painting a picture that sharks are evil along side not having enough knowledge on marine life/ecosystem it has limited the public support for marine conversation. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161107112632.htm
The Arctic sea melts have been the most direct to climate change. For the past forty years the ice cover have been melting more than half furthermore, scientists created climate models that predicts that there might be a chance that the remaining half of the ice will disappear by the mid-century unless we reduce the gas emissions quickly. However, theses climate models are not the very best for these predictions to quantify the future evolution of the sea ice. But how do we contribute to the melting of the sea arctic? well according to Dirk Notz " For each tonne of carbon dioxide that a person emits anywhere into this planet, three squares meters of the Arctic summer sea ice is lost" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161104145708.htm
There has been a proposal on creating a superhighway that will strect 162 miles in length with six paved lanes with a six mile buffer on both sides at Nigeria's cross river state. Due to this proposal it will affect the biodiversity such as the communities located there as well the animals. (WCS) or the wildlife conservatives society have encouraged the builder to chose alternatives options opposing the highway to protect all nearby communities, animals , and forest along the border of Cameroon. WCS created a petition against the superhighway collecting about 41,786 petitions since October 14 of 2016. The process of the superhighway has been temporary been stopped because of the petitions that were signed from local communities which has initiate an environmental impact assessment. Even though the highway was stopped it is not permanent the workers can start the construction site at any time. Since the construction work site can begin at any time WCS has teamed up with an award wining forest stewardship organization "Ekuri initiative. The Ekuri initiative have already sent the federal government 253,000 signatures asking for the president of Nigeria to help protect the forest. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161028090257.htm
Small robots were created to help today scientists Called, "Robomussels". They look exactly like Mussels but the only thing different is the blinking green light is that the Robomussels have as well as a miniature built in sensor that will track the temperature. They are then glued to a rock inside the mussel bed. There to observed the impacts from global climate change on the ecologically and economically important animals. These Robomussels were created by the Northeastern University scientist Brian Helmuth. For the past 18 years Helmuth, the school pubic policy ,urban affairs and a global research have been using robomussles to track internal body temperature of air and water.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161017150400.htm
Mount St. Helens may be a hot active volcano but it sits above a wedge of a rock known as "Cold Rock" of the North American plate tectonic.As geophysicist from the university of New Mexico Steven Hansen, was peeked only 40 kilometers under Mount St. Helens where the Juan de Faca tectonic plate melts during it sinks into the hot mantel beneath the North American plates fueling volcanoes all except Mount ST. Helens that stands about 50 kil. to the west. Hansen and his colleagues were expected to see a heat source under the mountain.Instead, using a thermal modeling revealed a type of rock called " serpentinite" . Serpentinite is a rock composed of one or more serpentinite group minerals which are from by serpentinization. This strange discovery shows how the local crust-mantel boundary looks like. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mount-st-helens-cold-hearted-volcano?mode=topic&context=60&tgt=nr
National academies of sciences are concern about the mammals living in the ocean. Even though the noise level has been increasing it is not as worse as the human-caused pollution such as climate change and prey-depletion by fishermen. Fishermen can cause them to make more noise because when they harm these poor creatures they let out a natural responses. Furthermore professor Peter of Marine Mammal biology of the University of Saint Andrew of Scotland conducted and study an experiment where they created a model that provides a way to examine them. Although chemical pollution or ocean climate can't be reduce other noises such as fishermen or shipping routes can be manage to reduce their impacts.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161007155101.htm
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