Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

Hurricane Ivan’s Lasting Impact on Florida Coasts

A new study has examined the poststorm impact and the short-term recovery from Ivan along a 200-km stretch of coast from Fort Walton Beach to St. George…

Environmental Conservation

Global Warming: A Threat to Crocodile Mating Success?

With global temperatures generally on the rise, crocodiles may have a harder time finding mates. For crocodiles, gender is not determined genetically, but…

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Aston University introduces biomass to China’s coal-fired power plants

The €590,000 ChEuBio (China EU Bioenergy project), funded by the European Commission, is a two-year initiative that will evaluate commercial possibilities of…

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Extraordinary Life Discovered at Deep-Sea Gas Seeps

An international team led by scientists from the United States and New Zealand have observed, for the first time, the bizarre deep-sea communities living…

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Scrap Tires: A New Method for Effective Wastewater Filtration

Dr. Yuefeng Xie, associate professor of environmental engineering at Penn State Harrisburg, has developed a method that uses crumb rubber to filter wastewater,…

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Carnegie Mellon's Granger Morgan pens op-ed

Carnegie Mellon University international engineering and environmental policy expert M. Granger Morgan is challenging U.S. federal and state officials to take…

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EU’s New Marine Strategy to Clean Up Seas by 2021

The conference, held 13 to 15 November under the auspices of Finland's European Union (EU) Presidency, addressed the EU’s newly proposed marine strategy, which…

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Kent Student Wins UNESCO Award for Great Ape Conservation

Bila’s research is focused on a large and recently discovered population of pygmy chimpanzees or bonobos (Pan paniscus) – the least known of the six species of…

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Northern Forest Fires: Cooling Impact on Climate Change

Many scientists have predicted that the result of this influx of greenhouse gas will be even more warming, followed by even more fires and so on – a vicious…

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Human-Focused Maps Transform Wildfire Management Strategies

Typically, fuel is the sole consideration used to decide the location of site treatments – where trees and shrubs are cleared away or burned in order to…

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Listening for Gunshots: A New Approach to Save Lives and Nature

This fall, Maher presented the results of two years of research into gunshots at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing…

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Forest Fires May Cool Northern Climate, Study Finds

Countering hypotheses that forest fires in Alaska, Canada and Siberia warm the climate, scientists at UC Irvine have discovered that cooling may occur in areas…

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South Africa Plans International Airport Near Durban

The South African government wants to transform a runway for light aircraft into an international airport on a site near Durban that lures more than three…

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Sustainable Tech: A Smart Alternative to Inefficient Sewage Solutions

The environmental technology required to achieve this goal is still getting insufficient attention, said Jules van Lier in his inaugural address, professor in…

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World Fisheries Overview: 29% Species at Risk of Collapse

Using data from the FAO’s fisheries statistics, the article presents a time-based overview of world fisheries, which shows that 29% of the species that are…

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New Study Reveals Complex Climate Change Effects on Species

According to a recent study in Ecological Monographs, predicting the impact of climate change on organisms is much more complicated than simply looking at…

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