Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

Fisheries Impact Galapagos Waved Albatross Population Decline

“If that happens every year, that is not sustainable,” said Jill Awkerman, a Wake Forest graduate student who is the lead author of the study published online…

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New Tools for Forecasting Future Environmental Catastrophes

At the Department of Ecology of the University of Barcelona, Salvador Pueyo has developed some new instruments that may provide new insights into their…

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Record Ozone Loss Over South Pole: 2006 Findings Explained

Ozone loss is derived by measuring the area and the depth of the ozone hole. The size of this year’s ozone hole is 28 million square km, nearly as large as the…

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New Insights on Guadalquivir Sturgeons from Granada Researchers

That means that a sturgeon species which was thought up to now to be exclusive of the Adriatic Sea, lived for years in the Andalusian river. But the…

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Oxford’s £300K Project Uses Maths to Prevent Future Flooding

The new £300,000 research project at Oxford University is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council. 'What we are doing is bringing together, for the…

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Mapping the Future of Earth Observation Value-Adding Industry

The workshop focused on the status and future of the Earth Observation value-adding (EO VA) industry. It was organised by the eoVox Consortium which includes…

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Academy allocates 7.5 million euros for research on sustainable production

The main aim of the Research Programme on Sustainable Production and Products is to strengthen basic research in process engineering and chemistry with a view…

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Using Recycled Paper and Compost to Combat Plant Disease

A University of Warwick research team under Professor Ralph Noble has recently shown that the use of composts can reduce the incidence of some important plant…

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Fires in Alaska and Canada caused sharp increase in Houston's ozone level

A team of 15 scientists headed by Gary Morris of Valparaiso University in Indiana analyzed data from a variety of sources, including weather balloons launched…

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Boreal Forest Ecoservices: Unlocking $250 Billion in Value

It's time to create a comprehensive accounting system for natural capital to recognize the full value of ecosystem services provided by boreal forests, an…

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Siberia’s Climate Change: Insights from Global Symposium

The Climate and Land Surface Systems Interaction Centre at the University of Leicester hosted an international scientific Symposium on “Environmental change in…

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Coral Reef Conservation Through Global Marine Protected Areas

Nonetheless, a world-scale assessment remains necessary in order to check if the conservation objectives laid down by the international bodies, which require…

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ESA’s microsatellite playing major role in scientific studies

Launched on 22 October 2001, Proba orbits 600 kilometres above the Earth and acquires around 450 scientific image datasets of more than 100 separate sites each…

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NASA's TRMM Satellite Tracks 2006 Hurricane Rainfall

This is a question that greatly interests meteorologists and hydrologists. On their behalf, and on behalf of the public which ultimately benefits from better…

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Earth's Most Diverse Marine Life Found Off Indonesia's Papua Province

Two recent expeditions led by Conservation International (CI) to the heart of Asia's “Coral Triangle” discovered dozens of new species of marine life including…

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Invasive Sea Squirts Expand on Georges Bank Sites

“The area of seabed covered by the colonies has doubled at 75 percent of the sites we observed in both 2005 and 2006,” said Dr. Page Valentine of the U.S….

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