Speaking at the British Ecological Society's Annual Meeting in Glasgow next week, Dr Owen Nevin of the University of Cumbria will reveal that adult male…
CUBED GOES GREEN…Climate change looks likely to make the weather more difficult to predict but, with the rising interest in the environmental impact of human…
The British government and other European Union countries brought in a revised Bathing Waters Directive last year with more stringent standards for the quality…
The rare stone-curlew, one of England’s most elusive birds, has thrived on farmland called set-aside, which has also helped declining skylarks, yellowhammers,…
These anecdotes have increasingly been supported by quantitative data showing that wildlife outside national parks and game reserves has declined precipitously…
A biological scientist at the University of Alberta, Boyce analyzed 774 wolf-elk kill sites and concluded that spatial patterns of predation between wolves and…
A study of forest cover in El Salvador in the September issue of BioScience presents novel findings on how economic globalization, land policy changes, and…
The Chinese media reported that a local businessman in Tongling City in east China’s Anhui Province filmed “a big white animal” with his digital camera on…
Now a raft of studies, published in the September 2007 issue of the African Journal of Ecology, show that we have moved beyond this. We are losing species from…
The team’s findings, published July 30 in two papers in Remote Sensing of Environment, will help tease out factors that drive changes in coastal water quality….
ESA’s ERS-2 and Envisat satellites continuously survey fires burning across the Earth’s surface with onboard sensors – the Along Track Scanning Radiometer…
The technique – developed by Bernd Kahn, director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s (GTRI) Environmental Radiation Center (ERC), and GTRI senior…
Reducing levels of waste and disposing of it in environmentally acceptable ways are significant issues facing policymakers. And, as in other areas of public…
A new poisonous frog was recently discovered in a remote mountainous region in Colombia by a team of young scientists supported by the Conservation Leadership…
A novel software application will help engineers and planners select the most efficient and site specific methods – called “Best Management Practices” (BMPs) –…
The “Endeavour” space shuttle was recently launched carrying the apple of the eye of SINTEF scientist Atle Honne; gas measurement equipment and associated…
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