'Red List' for ecosystems highlights global conservation needs
Leading Australian environmental scientists have helped to establish the first global list of threatened ecosystems at an international conservation summit.
Ecology
Sep 17, 2012
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Conservationists clash over ways forward despite sharing 'core aims', study finds
The first large-scale study of the views held by those working to protect the natural world has found agreement on the goals of conservation—but substantial disagreement on how to move towards them.
Environment
Apr 9, 2019
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Use of glow sticks in traps greatly increases amphibian captures in study
With amphibian populations declining around the world and funds to find the causes scarce, a team of Penn State researchers has shown that an unorthodox tactic will make it easier and therefore less expensive to capture adult ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 7, 2017
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Cultural, belief system data can inform gray wolf recovery efforts in US
Humans regularly exert a powerful influence on the survival and persistence of species, yet social-science information is used only sporadically in conservation decisions.
Ecology
Jun 3, 2021
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Celebrity pandas and tigers hog the extinction limelight
(Phys.org) —Worldwide, around 20,000 endangered animal species are competing for scarce conservation funds – but just 80 'celebrity species' are hogging most of the attention.
Ecology
Jun 11, 2013
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Where there's smoke, there are lessons in demands of global sustainability
As the world struggles for sustainability in the face of climate change, wildfire smoke becomes a lesson in how people can become victims far from the root of a problem and far from their control.
Environment
Jun 12, 2023
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Study may improve strategies for reducing nutrient runoff into Mississippi River
Every summer, the Gulf of Mexico is flooded with excess nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater treatment plants and farm fields along the Mississippi River basin. And every summer, those nutrients create a "dead zone" in ...
Environment
Jan 22, 2018
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Coral scientists use new model to find where corals are most likely to survive climate change
Marine conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society working with other coral reef experts have identified heat-tolerant coral species living in locations with continuous background temperature variability as those ...
Environment
Aug 30, 2012
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Minimizing extinctions in a changing climate: New study
More species could be saved from extinction under climate change thanks to a new model scientists have developed to guide allocation of conservation funding.
Ecology
Sep 19, 2011
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A better way to evaluate conservation policies found
Protected forested areas in Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia and Thailand have prevented the release of more than 1,000 million additional tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, an economic service provided by nature worth ...
Environment
Jun 16, 2015
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