Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

Otter Road Deaths Highlight Lead Pollution Concerns

Speaking at the British Ecological Society's Annual Meeting next week, Dr Liz Chadwick of Cardiff University's Otter Project will report the results of…

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Surf's up — and one coastal microbe has adapted

California beachgoers may look lazy. But just a few miles off shore, scientists have discovered that a common coastal strain of cyanobacteria works diligently…

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Ecologists Urge Action to Restore Iraq’s Marshes

Speaking at the BES's Annual Meeting at the University of Oxford from 5-7 September, Professor Curtis Richardson of Duke University will present the findings…

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UGR Scientists Warn: Last Five Years Are Hottest Since 1901

According to the data of different international organizations provided and analysed by professors Yolanda Castro Díez and María Jesús Esteban Parra, of the…

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Insect Predation Insights on Food Web Recovery Post-Dinosaurs

“The K-T caused major extinction among North American plants and insects. The Western Interior U.S. was a dead zone for plants and plant-insect food webs,”…

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First Look at North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean Freshening Causes

In a report, published in the August 25, 2006 issue of the journal, Science, MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory) senior scientist Bruce J. Peterson and his…

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Early Spring Trends in Europe: Insights from Global Study

Scientists from 17 countries have collaborated in the world's largest phenology study (the recording of changes in natural annual events such as the flowering…

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Mountain Climate Change Trends Impact Upper Indus Water Resources

The findings suggest this area, known as the Upper Indus Basin, could be reacting differently to global warming, the phenomenon blamed for causing glaciers in…

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New Water Filtration Technique Beats Algae Toxins by 95%

Engineers here determined that the technique greatly outperformed other methods by removing at least 95 percent of a toxin secreted by Microcystis, a…

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Undersea Robots Enhance Oceanographers’ Research Capabilities

All of these instruments, along with more than fifty scientists from over a dozen prestigious institutions throughout the country, are part of an extensive,…

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Forest Fire Devastates Arthropods: Impact on Ecosystem

Forest fire kills all arthropoda inhabiting the forest litter and several upper centimeters of the soil. Only those arthropoda that ran away, flew away or…

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UCI Scientists Predict Air Quality Impact of Small Power Sources

As California searches for more sources of power, researchers at UC Irvine have created the first scientific method for predicting the impact of small-scale…

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Sturgeon's general warning: Stable for now, but beware

For these and other reasons, many sturgeons — a variety of ancient, bottom-feeding fish — are in trouble. Trent Sutton, a fisheries biologist at Purdue…

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New Model Connects Tiny Larvae to Marine Ecology Insights

The work is reported by Heather M. Galindo and Stephen R. Palumbi of Stanford University, and Donald B. Olson of the University of Miami, and appears in the…

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Regional Storage Facilities: A Solution for Nuclear Waste

“My hope is that over time, the administration will rethink its priorities in this area,” says Richard Lester, professor of nuclear engineering and director of…

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Effective Vegetation Management: A Key to Forest Fire Prevention

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