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Amazon conjures rights to borrow Harry Potter ebooks

Amazon said Thursday it has signed a deal for the electronic books rights to all seven Harry Potter titles English, French, Italian, German and Spanish for its Kindle lending library.

Technology / Business

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US appeals court allows wolf hunts

A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit from conservation groups that want to block wolf hunting and trapping that have killed more than 500 of the predators across the Northern Rockies in ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 26

Australian birds status declining faster than elsewhere in world

A newly published study shows Australians must work with international partners if they are to save all of Australia's birds.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Most Michiganders like having wolves in their home state

The overwhelming majority of Michigan residents place value on having wolves in their home state while a small minority would buy a license to hunt them, according to a Michigan State University study.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Aquatic ecologist studies silent killer of bald eagles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Something is killing American bald eagles, and Susan Wilde is determined to find out what. An assistant professor in the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Virginia Tech unveils HokieSpeed, a new powerful supercomputer for the masses

Virginia Tech crashed the supercomputing arena in 2003 with System X, a machine that placed the university among the world's top computational research facilities. Now comes HokieSpeed, a new supercomputer ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Hundreds of threatened species not on official US list

Many of the animal species at risk of extinction in the United States have not made it onto the country's official Endangered Species Act (ESA) list, according to new research from the University of Adelaide.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Biologists monitor crocodiles at nuclear plant

(AP) -- An unexpected but fruitful relationship has blossomed between two potent forces in the swamps of South Florida: the American crocodile, and a nuclear power plant.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Grizzly bears still need protecting, US court rules

Conservationists welcomed a US appeals court ruling that grizzly bears still need protecting, after federal authorities sought to have them taken off an endangered species list.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Apply public trust doctrine to 'rescue' wildlife from politics, researchers say

When a species recovers enough to be removed from the federal endangered species list, the public trust doctrine – the principle that government must conserve natural resources for the public good – should guide ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

No place for crocodiles in Philippines: official

Efforts to save the Philippine crocodile, a "critically endangered" reptile, could go in vain as bureaucrats oppose their release into the wild, a top Philippine environment official said Wednesday.

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study helps assess global status of tuna and billfish stocks

A global study by an international team including professor John Graves of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science has found that several species of tunas and billfishes are threatened and in need of further ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers study threats to white sturgeon

University of Georgia researchers are working to understand why the nation's largest freshwater fish, the white sturgeon, is struggling in northern California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta, an environmentally endangered ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Is hunting wolves key to their conservation?

Hunters have been credited with being strong conservation advocates for numerous game species in multiple countries. Would initiating a wolf hunt invoke the same advocacy for the carnivores?

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Obama 2012 campaign to go beyond email, text

(AP) -- Call him the Digital Candidate: President Barack Obama is asking supporters to use Facebook to declare "I'm In!" for his re-election campaign and is using Twitter to personally blast out messages ...

Technology / Internet

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1