Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

Hope for Wisconsin Lakes: Tackling Invasive Crayfish

Since its introduction to Wisconsin waters sometime in the 1950s, the crayfish has spread to thousands of lakes and streams, clear cutting the underwater…

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Endangered Caribbean Sea Turtles: A Call for Realistic Assessments

Current conservation assessments of endangered Caribbean sea turtles are too optimistic, according to Loren McClenachan and colleagues from the Scripps…

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Threatened Species of Tidal Marshes: A Growing Concern

Tidal marshes cover only about 45,000 square kilometers worldwide–about the area of Denmark. In comparison with other habitats, tidal marshes support few…

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Mosquito Spray Boosts Pyrethroid Toxicity in Creek Ecosystem

While the increase in toxicity was relatively modest, the effects from the interaction of chemicals were unexpected, the researchers said. Chicken Ranch…

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Iowa State Researchers Turn Farm Waste Into Bio-Oil

It wasn't that bad.That mix of manure and corn stalks had spent 27 days breaking down in a special drying process. The end result looked like brown yard mulch…

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Small-Scale Logging’s Impact on Brazilian Amazon Clear-Cutting

Their five-year study is the first to quantify the relationship between selective logging, where loggers extract individual trees from the rain forest, and…

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Global Coral Reef Inventory From NASA Satellite Images

A team of international researchers using NASA satellite images compiled an updated inventory of all “marine protected areas” containing coral reefs and…

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Marine 'dead zone' off Oregon is spreading

A fundamental new trend in atmospheric and ocean circulation patterns in the Pacific Northwest appears to have begun, scientists say, and apparently is…

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Marine 'dead zone' off Oregon is spreading

A fundamental new trend in atmospheric and ocean circulation patterns in the Pacific Northwest appears to have begun, scientists say, and apparently is…

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Marine Protected Areas: Team Efforts Boost Fish Growth

The study, published in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology, found that fish grew larger in small traditionally managed reserves, rather than in…

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JIC Scientist Leads First International Biosafety Diploma Course

This is a 12-month distance learning based course run by the Biosafety International Network and Advisory Service (BINAS) of the United Nations Industrial…

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Rationing as a Strategy in the Fight Against Climate Change

John Grant, a lecturer in sustainable development from Sheffield Hallam University, believes that governments across the globe should consider rationing carbon…

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Thieves Foster Stable Coexistence Among Desert Rodents

“I gave up on traditional explanations when we couldn't find size-related tradeoffs in foraging rates or predator avoidance under different environmental…

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Invasive Plants Thrive in Disturbed Exotic Regions

“Our results are novel,” says Jose Hierro (University of Montana and Universidad Nacional de La Pampa). “No one else has ever shown that ruderals, that is,…

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Future Greenhouse Gas Impact on Food Crop Yields Revealed

The new findings are based on on-going open-air research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and results gleaned from five other…

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Ancient global warming drove early primates' dispersal

But new research using the latest evidence suggests a completely different migration path from those previously proposed and indicates that sudden, rapid…

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