As a part of larger efforts to address climate change and curb greenhouse gas emissions, Australia first put categorical energy efficiency labels on residential appliances in the mid-1980s. The first Minimum Energy ...

Projections of future Sea Ice Concentration (SIC) were prepared using a 13-member ensemble of climate model output from the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project (CMIP5). Three climate change scenarios (RCP 2.6, RCP 6.0, ...

For the first time since 1982, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is in the process of updating the Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Plan. In order to provide comprehensive recommendations regarding the conservation ...

In 1954 New Zealand's government passed the Tasman Pulp and Paper Enabling Act, which gave the Tasman company carte blanche to do everything necessary to create the Pulp and Paper Mill's waste disposal site on Maori Trust ...

Anguilla is a small island in the Caribbean with recovering nesting populations of hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) and green (Chelonia mydas) turtles. While there is currently a ...

The goal of this paper is to gain a better understanding of long-term interactions between natural processes and human activities, and how protective measures produce long-term, unintended consequences. Protective measures ...

The 2.5 percent annual decline of the Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) over the past 39 years has concerned staff from various wildlife agencies and conservation organizations, prompting increased research ...

Modeling the effects of land use and land cover changes on water quality is important for watershed managers to better understand how human modifications to land surfaces may alter stream nutrient loads. One model available ...

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas emitted from soils through the microbial processes of denitrification/nitrification. In agricultural soils these natural processes and thus N2O emission are significantly ...

This paper describes one method of modeling current and future market penetration of advanced lighting controls as a function of commercial floor space. We take advanced lighting controls to mean dimmers, photosensors, ...