Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

Significant Decline in Siberian Tigers

WCS says the report will help inform Russian officials of what needs to be done to protect remaining populations of the world’s biggest cat. The report was…

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Where the Wild Things Were: How Conservation Efforts Are Failing

Sanderson, who published an essay with a similarly dire assertion in 2002, concludes these seven years later: “There have been landmark foreign policy acts in…

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A Year After Discovery, Congo’s “Mother Lode” of Gorillas Remains Vulnerable

The study recommends protection of the swamp forests adjacent to the southwest border of Lac Télé Community Reserve after recent surveys confirmed that high…

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Fish Food Fight: Fish Don’t Eat Trees After All

But new research from the University of Washington shows this is not likely to be true. Algae provide a much richer diet for fish and other aquatic life,…

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Developing “Green” Tires That Boost Mileage and Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions

C&EN Senior Editor Alexander Tullo explains that rolling resistance — the friction that tires encounter when rolling — are a major factor in a vehicle’s fuel…

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Elevated Pollution Levels Near Regional Airports Uncovered

Those airports are becoming an increasingly important component of global air transport systems. The study, one of only a handful to examine airborne…

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Common Skate: First Fish Species Facing Extinction Risk

A species of common skate is to become the first marine fish species to be driven to extinction by commercial fishing, due to an error of species…

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CO2 Emissions Surge 29% Since 2000: Global Carbon Insights

An international team of researchers under the umbrella of the Global Carbon Project reports that over the last 50 years the average fraction of global CO2…

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Penguins and Sea Lions Help Produce New Atlas

The atlas contains the most accurate maps ever assembled for this ecosystem revealing key migratory corridors that span from coastlines to deep-sea feeding…

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Lake Kivu’s Gas Threat: A Freshwater Crisis in Rwanda

A dangerous level of carbon dioxide and methane gas haunts Lake Kivu, the freshwater lake system bordering Rwanda and the Republic of Congo.Scientists can’t…

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New Water Management Tool to Combat Drought Effects

A researcher from North Carolina State University has developed an innovative water management framework that would take advantage of these forecasts to plan…

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Amphibians as Environmental Indicators: New Research Insights

After a review of over 28,000 toxicological tests, researchers from the University of South Dakota, Yale University and Washington State University are…

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California's Ancient Kelp Forest

The kelp forest tripled in size from the peak of glaciation 20,000 years ago to about 7,500 years ago, then shrank by up to 70 percent to present day levels,…

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Greenhouse Gas Reduction Alone Won’t Slow Climate Change

According to Stone’s paper, as the international community meets in Copenhagen in December to develop a new framework for responding to climate change,…

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NOAA deploys new 'smart buoy' off Annapolis

NOAA deployed the seventh in a series of “smart buoys” to monitor weather conditions and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay today.The buoy, located at the…

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New Landscape Rating System to Transform The Industry, Complete Green Building Puzzle

The Sustainable Sites Initiative led by the partners developed the rating system out of four years of work by dozens of the country’s leading sustainability…

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