Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

WMO Enhances Satellite Strategy for Climate Monitoring

The backing came during a two-day high-level meeting that ended 16 January, 2008, in New Orleans, USA. The annual WMO Consultative Meetings on High-level…

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Researcher's work on gender, temperature link in reptiles published in Nature

Nature is an international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal of science, and is the most-cited weekly science journal in the world.Dan Warner, a…

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Groundbreaking Genetic Study Reshapes Tree of Life Insights

The discovery by Norwegian and Swiss researchers has gained attention from biologists worldwide. The findings come from the largest ever genetic comparison of…

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Study Reveals Challenges for Releasing Captive Carnivores

Published online in the journal Biological Conservation, the research highlights the low survival rates of captive carnivores that are released into their…

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Economists Boost Climate Science Accuracy in Global Warming Forecasts

Although there is broad consensus that there will be a significant rise in average global temperature, there is great uncertainty over the extent of the…

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How Life Resurrected After the Permian Mass Extinction

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian, a major extinction event killed over 90 per cent of life on earth, including insects, plants, marine…

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Charity Presents Dolphin Decline Insights to EU Commission

Marinelife believe that the invitation to discuss the situation in Biscay highlights how seriously the EU views the charity’s research and hopes this will…

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'Nonlinear' ecosystem response points to environmental solutions

There may be much better ways to provide the majority of environmental protection needed while still maintaining natural resource-based jobs and sustainable…

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Balancing Environmental Protection and Development Efforts

However, ripping out a few mangroves and replacing them with shrimp farms, an important local industry, doesn’t necessarily have to reduce the plants’ power to…

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California flood risks are 'disaster waiting to happen

While flooding in California's Central Valley is “the next big disaster waiting to happen,” water-related infrastructure issues confront almost every community…

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Herons Thrive in Chicago Wetlands Amid Chemical Concerns

The findings appear in the current issue of the Journal of Great Lakes Research.University of Illinois veterinary biosciences scientist Jeff Levengood led the…

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Wood Floor Finishes Linked to PCB Exposure: New Research Insights

PCBs are persistent organic pollutants identified worldwide as human blood and breast milk contaminants. They were widely used in industry as cooling and…

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Rwanda’s Gishwati Forest selected as site for historic conservation project

The Rwandan government, Great Ape Trust of Iowa and Earthpark have announced that the Gishwati Forest Reserve is the future site of the Rwanda National…

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Starfish Strike at Coral Kingdom

That’s the finding of recent scientific surveys by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and the Wildlife Conservation Society based at the Bronx…

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Climate Impact on Deep Sea Populations: A Growing Concern

The progressive depletion of world fisheries is one of the key socio-economical issues of the forthcoming century. However, amid this worrying scenario,…

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Unlocking Biomass Production: Benefits Through Smart Planning

Better still, the growing plants could be used to help solve other environmental problems. In a review of current systems, Göran Berndes from the Department of…

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