Cassava has huge potential and could turn from "a poor people's food into a 21st century crop" if grown according to a new environmentally-friendly farming model, the UN food agency said on Tuesday.

Biology - Ecology

May 28, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

Serengeti National Park in Tanzania may be the most iconic national park in the world. Here, lions, leopards, elephants, hippos and giraffes wander free. Rivers of wildebeests, zebra and Thompson's gazelles ...

Biology - Ecology

May 23, 2013 not rated yet 0

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite detected hundreds of fires burning in the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola on May 01, 2013. The fires ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

May 02, 2013 not rated yet 0

Poaching on an "industrial" scale has slashed the elephant population in the countries of central Africa by nearly two-thirds, a group of international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) said on Friday.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 26, 2013 3.8 / 5 (6) 0

In the face of unprecedented deforestation and biodiversity loss, policy makers are increasingly using financial incentives to encourage conservation.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 16, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

Kenya plans to bolster current lenient sentences for convicted wildlife poachers or ivory smugglers in a bid to stamp out a spike in elephant killings, the government said on Saturday.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 06, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

African forest elephants are being poached out of existence. A study just published in the online journal PLOS ONE and supported in part by San Diego Zoo Global shows that a staggering 62% of all forest elephants have been k ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 29, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

By the end of this century, sea levels could rise worldwide by three feet or more, inundating coastal cities and spurring catastrophic storms roughly every three years.

Technology - Engineering

Mar 20, 2013 not rated yet 0

Claudine Andre, a 67-year-old Belgian living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has spent the last 20 years dedicated to the protection of the bonobo, an extraordinary species of ape threatened by trafficking ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 17, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Ruthless and heavily armed "criminal syndicates" linked to drug smugglers and militias are running the global wildlife trade and turning their guns on the park rangers tasked with protecting endangered species.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 09, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

African forest elephants are being poached out of existence. A study just published in the online journal PLOS ONE shows that across their range in central Africa, a staggering 62 percent of all forest elepha ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 04, 2013 3 / 5 (3) 1

The Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) largest remaining forest elephant population, located in the Okapi Faunal Reserve (OFR), has declined by 37 percent in the last five years, with only 1,700 elephants ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 28, 2013 not rated yet 0

Surrounded by sculptures carved from the white tusks of African elephants—which are being slaughtered in their tens of thousands—Beijing saleswoman Chen Yu says the ivory trade is thriving.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 28, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Conservationists on Thursday called for sanctions against the world's top offender nations in the illegal ivory trade to tackle a surge in poaching of African elephants.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 21, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Comforting a friend or relative in distress may be a more hard-wired behavior than previously thought, according to a new study of bonobos, which are great apes known for their empathy and close relation to ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 30, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 10 |