Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

African Nations Commit to Saving Chimps

The nations of East and Central Africa have developed a 10-year action plan to save one of humankind’s closest relatives—the eastern chimpanzee—from hunting,…

Environmental Conservation

Initial Fibertect Field Test a Success

Seshadri Ramkumar, an associate professor of nonwoven technologies, said the Texas Tech-created nonwoven cotton absorbent wipe with activated carbon core makes…

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Day 59: UD Site Shows Cities Whose 115,000 Cars Could Have Been Fueled by Spill

The UD website calculates daily the number and kinds of transportation vehicles the spilled oil could have supplied. It also now includes a map showing the…

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Coral Reef Protection Efforts in the Caribbean Fall Short

That's the take-home message of a paper published in this week's issue of the journal Science by researchers Ann Budd of the University of Iowa and John…

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New Strategy for Enhanced Polar Ocean Observation

In a report published in this week's issue of Science, a team of oceanographers, including MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory) Ecosystems Center director Hugh…

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EcoDogs Sniffing Out Endangered Species

The question is, how do you put dogs on the trail of unusual, elusive critters that few humans have seen? The dogs aren’t looking for animals per se, but are…

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Oil Spill Update: Enough Fuel to Power 68,000 Cars for a Year

That's based on the average estimated spill rate of 30,000 barrels of oil per day. On June 10, the science team analyzing the spill updated their estimates to…

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Green Growth: Achieving Sustainability Amid Rising Fossil Fuel Costs

Sterner’s research shows that it is indeed possible to achieve sustainable economic growth, reduced poverty and an improved climate – if we make fossil fuels…

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High tech tools, top-notch science and serendipity play part in finding 23-mile long plume off Florida’s Treasure Coast

The University of Miami’s 96-foot catamaran the RV/F.G. Walton Smith had just completed a two-week National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored cruise sampling…

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New online map shows network of protection for North America's marine ecosystems

The latest map from the North American Environmental Atlas—coordinated by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)—for the first time brings together…

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Fern's evolution gives arsenic tolerance that may clean toxic land

The fern Pteris vittata can tolerate 100 to 1,000 times more arsenic than other plants. Jody Banks, a professor of botany and plant pathology, and David Salt,…

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Fibertect Absorbent Can Clean Gulf Oil Spill’s Crude, Hold Toxic Oil and Mustard Vapors

Seshadri Ramkumar, an associate professor of nonwoven technologies, said the Texas Tech-created nonwoven cotton carbon absorbent wipe can clean up crude oil…

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Fish Health Remains Stable After December 2008 Fly Ash Spill

Oak Ridge National Laboratory in collaboration with TVA has found that while small amounts of some contaminants from the December 2008 fly ash spill have been…

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Oil Spill Could Fuel 38,000 Cars for a Year

Corbett, a professor of marine policy in UD's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, works on energy and environmental solutions for transportation. He has…

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Innovative Strategies for Sustainable Fishing in Coral Reefs

Stanford marine scientists and anthropologists are developing strategies for sustainable fishing by comparing two remote coral reef ecosystems – one inhabited,…

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Fire May Revive Eastern Forest Dogwood Trees

Dogwood trees act as a calcium pump, pulling the nutrient from deep in the soil and depositing it on the forest floor with their fallen leaves each autumn….

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