News tagged with conservation project
Clash of the crayfish: Why the Americans are winning
Aggressive American signal crayfish are threatening Britain's native white-clawed crayfish populations because they have better resistance to parasites and are less fussy about what they eat.
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Mitsui to pay record fine for Gulf oil spill
Japanese conglomerate Mitsui will pay $90 million for its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the worst oil spill in US history, authorities said Friday.
Feb 17, 2012 |
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Rescued killer whale starts new life in Spain
A female killer whale captured in the North Sea began a new life in the Canary Islands on Wednesday after being flown over from The Netherlands, a Spanish zoo said.
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Report IDs nation's 101 top conservation projects
(AP) -- An Interior Department report released Thursday identifies 101 high-priority conservation projects across the nation as part of President Barack Obama's initiative to protect public lands, but it ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Following the trail of conservation successes
A paper by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), James Cook University and Mongabay.com, which was published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution in early August, showed that although large-scale biodiv ...
Sep 27, 2011 |
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Ancient sewer excavation sheds light on the Roman diet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists working in a system of connected sewers and drains under the ancient town of Herculaneum in the Bay of Naples area of Italy have analyzed the human excrement found there and ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Scientists find deadly amphibian disease in the last disease-free region of central America
Smithsonian scientists have confirmed that chytridiomycosis, a rapidly spreading amphibian disease, has reached a site near Panama's Darien region. This was the last area in the entire mountainous neotropics ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Vets' expertise in endoscopic surgery benefits unique conservation project in the Galapagos Islands
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists, including several from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, used their expertise in endoscopic surgery to benefit a unique conservation project in the Galapagos ...
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Shipping industry sends help as project in Panama tackles amphibian crisis
As a disease known as amphibian chytrid fungus continues to wipe out amphibian species worldwide, frogs in Panama are finding a safe haven in a seemingly unlikely spot—between the metal walls of shipping containers once used ...
Apr 23, 2010 |
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UK botanists bank 10% of world's plant species
Botanists at Britain's Kew Gardens have collected seeds from 10 percent of the world's wild plants, their first goal in a long-term project to protect all endangered species, they said Thursday.
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Feinstein seeks block solar power from desert land
(AP) -- California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what several proposed projects might do to the aesthetics of the region and its tortoise population ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 21, 2009 |
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Scientists Bring 2000 year old painted warrior to virtual live
A 2000-year-old painted statue is being restored to her original glory by scientists from WMG at the University of Warwick, the University of Southampton, and the Herculaneum Conservation Project.
Jan 12, 2009 |
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