Energy is getting more and more expensive, and experts are predicting record electricity and heating prices. A software platform promises to lighten the load for households and businesses by making it easier ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Mar 13, 2013 not rated yet 1

Countries making large seizures of illegal ivory will be required to conduct DNA tests to determine their origin under new anti-trafficking measures adopted on Wednesday.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 13, 2013 not rated yet 0

The Wildlife Conservation Society, Zoological Society of London, and Endangered Wildlife Trust have joined representatives from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 08, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 0

A new camera-trapping study in India has revealed that leopards can occur at high densities in densely-populated and heavily-modified agricultural environments.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 08, 2013 not rated yet 0

A new report from the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada (WCS Canada) creates a conservation strategy that will promote wildlife resiliency in the Southern Canadian Rockies to the future impacts of climate ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 07, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 0

A ban on the international trade of the Tasmanian tiger, the buff-nosed kangaroo rat and the pig-footed bandicoot was lifted Thursday—because the species have been extinct for decades.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 07, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Australia's desert-dwelling bilby is under threat after floods destroyed a predator fence which allowed feral cats to kill 150 of the newborn marsupials, conservationists said Thursday.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 07, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

(Phys.org) —A team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), revealed in a new study, for the first time, the presence of the pathogenic chytrid fungus ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 06, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Monitoring communities of climate sensitive species, such as insects, could enable scientists to develop indicators for climate change effects on biodiversity and help devise policies to protect it.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 06, 2013 4 / 5 (4) 1

Climate change, intensive farming and urban sprawl - are putting Europe's parkland and biological diversity under increasing pressure. The natural environment can only take so much pressure, before it becomes ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 06, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Homes in neighborhoods that incorporate protected open space command prices 20 to 29 percent higher than those without open space, according to a new study by a Colorado State University multidisciplinary ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 05, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

It was late at night at the Preto Velho ranch when the unsuspecting jaguar approached the trap, took the bait—and was downed by a tranquilizer dart.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 05, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 0

Fishers near marine protected areas end up traveling farther to catch fish but maintain their social and economic well-being, according to a study by fisheries scientists at Washington State University and in Hawaii.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 05, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 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

Poachers in northeast India have slaughtered 13 endangered one-horned rhinos in the last two months, officials said on Friday as another death added to worries about a recent surge in killings.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 01, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 0