Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

Virtual Duck Bills Showcasing Species Coexistence Insights

The classical explanation is that each species has evolved morphological or physiological traits that allow it to exploit some resources more efficiently than…

Environmental Conservation

Great Barrier Reef at Risk: CSIRO Imagery Reveals Concerns

The remotely sensed images, taken from February 9 to 13 this year, challenge conventional thought that sediment travelling from our river systems into the GBR…

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City Ants Adapt to Rising Temperatures Amid Global Warming

While Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, has generated greater awareness of global warming, most people remain unaware of the more rapid warming that has…

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Lost Cuckoo Calls: Rare Sumatran Bird’s Voice Recorded

A team of biologists with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have recorded for the first time the call of the extremely rare Sumatran…

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Granthams Fund Climate Change Institute at Imperial College

This is the largest private funding given to climate change in the UK and will contribute to the world’s response to climate change by stimulating a research…

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African carnage — 1 year's seized ivory likely came from 23,000 elephants

The problem is so serious that the giant creatures might be on the path to extinction unless western nations reinstate strong enforcement efforts that all but…

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New Insights on Climate Change Impacts in European Seas

She will elaborate on the results of this Marine Board-ESF study, which started in 2005, and formally hand over the report to Koen Verlaeckt, head of cabinet…

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North Atlantic Ecosystem Shift: Climate and Cod Decline Impact

While some scientists have pointed to the decline of cod from overfishing as the main reason for the shifting ecosystems, the article emphasizes that climate…

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Northwest Atlantic Ecosystems Face Major Climate Changes

Ecosystems along the continental shelf waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean–from the Labrador Sea south of Greenland all the way to North Carolina–are…

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Sex reversal in frogs ­ an effect of drugs in the environment

A great number of medicines that humans take are released through waste waters and end up in nature. The contraceptive pill estrogen ethynylestradiol has been…

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International Conference: "Transport and Environment: A Global Challenge – Technological and Policy Solutions"

What?——International Forum on new regulatory approaches to control air pollution, with special emphasis on transport, Press Conference, Scientific…

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Lizards 'Shout' Against a Noisy Background

Male anole lizards signal ownership of their territory by sitting up on a tree trunk, bobbing their heads up and down and extending a colorful throat pouch….

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Ozone Emitting Air Purifiers: How They Interact With Cleaners

Indoor air purifiers that produce even small quantities of ozone may actually make the air dirtier when used at the same time as household cleaning products,…

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Biologically Inspired Sensors Boost Submarine Sonar and Vision

“Our development of an artificial lateral line is aimed at enhancing human ability to detect, navigate and survive in the underwater environment,” said Liu, a…

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Wild Elk Return to Ontario: Success in Wildlife Restoration

“The Ontario elk restoration program has met with great success primarily due to the collaborative, multi-partnered approach to wildlife management,” says Dr….

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New Insights on CO2 Emissions and Boreal Ecosystems

Dr Kevin Robert Gurney, assistant professor in the Earth & Atmospheric Science/Agronomy at Purdue University and Associate Director of the Purdue Climate…

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