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

Following UKIP's surge in the local elections, new survey data indicates that one possible explanation of their success - until now largely overlooked - is their emergence as the party with the strongest ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

May 06, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 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

A new national poll of America's 18- to 29- year-olds by Harvard's Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, finds a slight majority (52%) of Millennials overall continuing to approve of the ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

May 01, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 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

A mass Internet monitoring program touted by Britain's government as a terror-fighting tool is unworkable, the country's deputy leader said Thursday, vowing that it would not become law.

Technology - Internet

Apr 25, 2013 not rated yet 0

A top Senate Democrat says the advertising industry is ignoring consumers' requests not to be tracked online and that it's probably time for federal regulation.

Technology - Internet

Apr 24, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 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