2,654 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 27 of 27.
“The spill began after an explosion that destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off Louisiana in April.”
“CO2 G/KM: 119g/km”
“the 2,000 UN-appointed scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)”
“beginning this year, 27 states and the District of Columbia have been required, under the Federal Clean Air Act, to begin tougher automobile emissions testing.”
“The Ushahidi map was set up by the environmental monitoring group Louisiana Bucket Brigade to track the effects of the spill.”
“MPG Combined: 31.0”
“up to a 6oC rise in average global temperatures by the end of the current century”
“more than ten quintillion insects that inhabit the earth at any given moment”
“"The point is to produce a collective visual where we can all see the magnitude of the problem," Anne Rolfes, director of the group, told BBC News”
“a mere half-metre rise in sea levels would submerge countries such as Holland”
“After Hurricane Katrina, she said, there were lots of anecdotes about people's experience but they were not all recorded in one place.”
“over the past 50 years”
“It had originally been designed to monitor pollution from oil refineries in the area but had not been used.”
“cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of at least 60 per cent below 1990 levels”
“He, working with neuroscientist Professor Clive Coen, from King's College London, and zoologist Professor Nigel Bennett, from the University of Pretoria”
“global average temperatures have risen by 0.7oC”
“More than 100 scientists will be involved in the study, which will continue until the middle of June.”
“Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Ethiopia, each of which has suffered severe drought over the past two years”
“The researchers will not have a fixed base, spending the entire six weeks on the road following outbreaks of severe weather.”
“a global average 5.2 per cent reduction in emissions over the next 12 years”
“The project will build on the findings from the original Vortex study, which was conducted in 1994-95 and gathered data on supercells - long-lived thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes.”
“nearly a quarter of all emissions (but with only 5 per cent of the world’s population)”
“It has about 20,000 genes - about the same as a human - and scientists say it sheds new light on genetic evolution.”
“average plate of food has travelled more than 1,000 miles”
“Forty-eight scientists from 20 institutions collaborated on the study, led from the US Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in Walnut Creek, California.”
“The Department of the Environment has been unable to find much credible evidence that eight years of continuous real rises in the tax on fuel have done anything to reduce vehicle use.”
“For this project, X tropicalis was preferred because it reproduces much faster than its more famous cousin. The chytrid fungus is devastating amphibians numbers around the world. Its genome is also roughly half the size.”
“220 square kilometres”
“the fact that their lineages diverged some 360 million years ago”
“The 90-day shoot, which had the set designer Andrew McAlpine reconstructing the novel’s fictional community on Ko Phi Phi Leh, a protected, unspoilt National Park, had environmental activists up in arms.”
“Xenopus is the genus from which chytrid was first recorded, in [a museum specimen from] 1938”
“She speaks of reducing air pollution by 62 per cent in five years”
“It is spreading across the world and has caused mass deaths in many species. It is implicated as the major factor in several species extinctions.”
“a modest 10,000 acres of fields and forests”
“The oil, which has formed a slick measuring 45 miles by 105 miles, is currently about 50 miles (80km) off Louisiana's coast.”
“A team of researchers will spend a month at sea, studying a region of water in the North Atlantic.”
“The 26-strong team of researchers and technicians will return to the UK at the end of May, and plan to release its findings soon after.”
“will spend a month at sea”
“The 26-strong team of researchers and technicians will return to the UK at the end of May”
“Professor Achterberg said that the research cruise was originally planned about three or four years ago, and it was by chance that the study coincided with the eruption.”
“This means that we can calculate what is falling into the oceans.”
“We will also measure the chemicals in the ocean, and we're particularly interested in elements like iron, but also nitrogen, phosphorous and silicon.”
“The team will use the measurements to link them to the rate of growth of phytoplankton - microscopic plants.”
“The 26-strong team of researchers and technicians will return to the UK at the end of May.”
“and plan to release its findings soon after.”
“Although AOD has been confirmed in 55 cases, the number of trees displaying symptoms was steadily increasing, delegates at the Royal Forestry Society's (RFS) annual conference were told.”
“The incidence of AOD in Britain is unquantified at this stage, but estimates put the figure at a few thousand affected trees.”
“Information from Forest Research, the scientific department of the UK Forestry Commission, says the new disease affects oaks more than 50 years old.”
“They said extra funds for more research into the disease were urgently needed. Although AOD has been confirmed in 55 cases, the number of trees displaying symptoms was steadily increasing, delegates at the Royal Forestry Society's (RFS) an…”
“Acute Oak Decline can kill an infected tree in just a few years”
“Its spread over the last two years has been quite alarming.”
“The researchers sequenced the genome of the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pathovar aesuli (Pae) from three samples collected from different locations within the UK.”
“They compared them with samples from the only other recorded case, taken from an Indian horse chestnut in India in the 1960s.”
“Since Pae was first recorded in 2002, it has become present throughout the UK and more than 70% of horse chestnuts in some areas are showing symptoms of being infected.”
