http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/ B-files -- Lepidoptera related stories provided by Lepidopterology.com en-gb Copyright 2007, Lepidopterology.com info@lepidopterology.com Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:04:00 GMT Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:04:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ http://www.lepidopterology.com/images/leps_logo_news.gif http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/ http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07120701.htm Over 100,000 signatures have been forwarded to the Polish government, calling for the protection of Europe's last remaining stands of natural forests. The signature drive is part of a WWF campaign to safeguard ancient woodlands in Poland's Bialowieza Primaeval Forest from logging and other unsustainable forest activities... Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:04:00 GMT http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07120402.htm We can disguise environmentally harmful practices and dress them up in words to help ease our consciences, argues Albert Bandura of the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, but such practices will have a negative impact on the planet and the quality of life of future generations, no matter how we label them... Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:11:00 GMT http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07120401.htm The past year has seen more weather records smashed as extreme events take a firmer hold of the planet, says WWF at the start of the UN climate change conference... Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:11:00 GMT http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07120303.htm The 6th International Association of Hydrological Sciences Groundwater Quality Conference 2007 (GQ07) features a program of over 300 international scientists working in the field of groundwater quality, meeting for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere, giving local scientists unprecedented access to a wealth of international learning... Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:19:00 GMT http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07120302.htm Around 20 million euros, almost 14 million GBP, of research money is up for grabs in a new partnership programme that tackles the alarming decline of plant and animal species on our planet... Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:19:00 GMT http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07120301.htm Researchers at Wageningen University, Netherlands, have shown that a drop in atmospheric nitrogen deposition will slow down forest growth. At the same time they expect that a lower tree growth implies less carbon sequestration and thus a decrease in the sequestration of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide... Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:19:00 GMT http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07120202.htm Indigenous water frogs can be crowded out by immigrant or imported species. This is the finding of a French-German study. The scientists investigated water frog populations in France and Northern Spain and noticed that the marsh frog (Rana ridibunda), which normally occurs only in Eastern Europe, has the potential to crowd out indigenous species like Graf's hybrid frog (Rana grafi) and the Iberian water frog (Rana perezi)... Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:09:00 GMT http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07120201.htm Leicester writer Siobhan Logan is collaborating with the Radio and Space Plasma Physics Group of the University of Leicester, to visit Tromso in Northern Norway in December... Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:09:00 GMT http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07112802.htm Much of the discussion at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, will focus on monitoring tropical deforestation and the critical role that remote sensing systems will play in the development of REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) mechanisms... Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:12:00 GMT http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07112801.htm The devastating impact of global warming is already evident in Indonesia and will likely worsen due to further human-induced climate change, warns WWF. The review from the global conservation organisation, Climate Change in Indonesia -- Implications for Humans and Nature, highlights that annual rainfall in the world's fourth most populous nation is already down by 2 to 3 per cent, and the seasons are changing... Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:12:00 GMT http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07112605.htm Climate change may be one of the most significant threats facing humankind. A new study shows that long-term climate change may ultimately lead to wars and population decline. The study, published 19 November in the early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), revealed that as temperatures decreased centuries ago during a period called the Little Ice Age, the number of wars increased, famine occurred and the population declined... Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:30:00 GMT http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07112604.htm When moths fly at night, their eyes need to capture all the light available. To do this, certain species have evolved nanoscopic structures on the surface of their eyes which allow almost no light to reflect off the surface and hence to escape... Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:30:00 GMT http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07112603.htm Kyoto was a valiant first attempt to tackle global carbon emissions, and support for the Kyoto Protocol is still needed in the international community, but it will not be enough to make a breakthrough with climate change... Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:30:00 GMT http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07112602.htm Reading the newspaper 30 minutes a day on e-paper instead of a regular newspaper is environmentally preferable. If you read a Web-based newspaper instead, you can only read for ten minutes to produce the same load on the environment. This has been calculated in a study at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden... Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:30:00 GMT http://www.lepidopterology.com/news/07112601.htm Scientists in Australia have discovered that the older the water filter the better when it comes to reducing the off-putting earthy taste of some tap water. Writing in the Inderscience publication International Journal of Environment and Waste Management, the team explains how bacteria that grow on particles in a sand filter effectively extract the compounds that produce the taste... Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:30:00 GMT