Retaining a network of wildlife conservation areas is vital in helping to save up to 90 per cent of bird species in Africa affected by climate change, according to scientists.

Biology - Ecology

Jun 01, 2009 4.6 / 5 (11) 0

The 40-year anniversary of Earth Day is sparking a renewed commitment to protecting natural resources. Across the country people recognize there are successes to laud, but also new challenges to confront.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 22, 2010 3.2 / 5 (13) 8 |

Years of combing tropical mountain forests, shining flashlights under rocks and listening for croaks in the night have paid off for a team of Indian scientists which has discovered 12 new frog species plus ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 17, 2011 4.4 / 5 (9) 0

Wildlife Conservation Society scientists have documented a thriving population of lowland tapirs – the strange forest and grassland-dwelling herbivore with the trunk-like snout – living in a network of ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 22, 2013 5 / 5 (6) 1

(AP) -- A budget proposal from the Obama administration would spend $475 million on beach cleanups, wetlands restoration and removal of toxic sediments from river bottoms around the Great Lakes.

Space & Earth - Environment

May 15, 2009 3.5 / 5 (8) 6

(AP) -- Fish caught near wastewater treatment plants serving five major U.S. cities had residues of pharmaceuticals in them, including medicines used to treat high cholesterol, allergies, high blood pressure, bipolar disorder ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 25, 2009 4.2 / 5 (6) 0

A forest may look like a forest, have many of the same trees that used to live there, but still lose the ecological, economic or cultural values that once made it what it was, researchers suggest this week in articles in ...

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Oct 03, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant and animal extinctions are detrimental to your health. That's the conclusion of a paper published in this week's issue of the journal Nature by scientists who studied the link betwee ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 01, 2010 4.8 / 5 (4) 0 |

In the search for sustainability of the ocean's fisheries, solutions can be found in a surprising place: the ancient past.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 23, 2012 4.8 / 5 (4) 4 |

Sweden's controversial wolf hunt, which has sparked widespread criticism from environmentalists and legal action from the European Commission, ended with hunters failing to cull one of the 20 animals in the ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 16, 2011 4.5 / 5 (4) 2

Marine protected areas (MPAs) may turn out to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. As a result of changing conditions, marine species have been on the move with observed shifts of as much as three kilometres per year ...

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Feb 16, 2012 4.3 / 5 (4) 0

(AP) -- A pet Burmese python broke out of a glass cage last week and killed a 2-year-old girl in her Florida bedroom. The tragedy became the latest and most graphic example of a problem that has plagued the ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 08, 2009 5 / 5 (3) 0

(AP) -- Dozens of foreign insects and plant diseases slipped undetected into the United States in the years after 9/11, when authorities were so focused on preventing another attack that they overlooked a ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 10, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 0

A new study led by scientists at the University of York has shown how birds, butterflies, other insects and spiders have colonised nature reserves and areas protected for wildlife, as they move north in response ...

Biology - Ecology

Aug 13, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

The small fragments of tropical forests left behind after deforestation are suffering extensive species extinction, according to new research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 14, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0