Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

Wind Parks At Sea: A New Home For Lobsters?

The Land of Lower Saxony is promoting a pilot project on the settlement of the European lobster in the “Riffgat“ offshore windpark with just under EUR 700,000….

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New Studies Link Invasive Plants to Frog Decline, Mammal Changes

Researchers at Lincoln Park Zoo and Northern Illinois University have discovered a new culprit contributing to amphibian decline and altered mammal…

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Health Defects in Fish Linked to Deepwater Horizon Spill

With researchers from Louisiana and South Carolina, the scientists found that Gulf killifish embryos exposed to sediments from oiled locations in 2010 and 2011…

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Smoke Signals: How Fire Boosts Plant Growth After Wildfires

In the spring following a forest fire, trees that survived the blaze explode in new growth and plants sprout in abundance from the scorched earth. For…

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New Simulation Model Reveals Future of Coral Reefs

To address this key question, ecologists of the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) in Bremen developed a simulation model showing the development…

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World's longest-running plant monitoring program now digitized

Knowing how plants respond to changing conditions over many decades provides new insights into how ecosystems behave.The permanent research plots on Tumamoc…

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Sea Turtles Thrive in Marine Protected Areas

Nesting green sea turtles are benefiting from marine protected areas by using habitats found within their boundaries, according to a U.S. Geological Survey…

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Grocery Delivery Services: A Greener Choice for Shoppers

University of Washington engineers have found that using a grocery delivery service can cut carbon dioxide emissions by at least half when compared with…

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A Simple Solution to Air Pollution From Wood-Burning Cookstoves

Up to now, most interventions have focused on improving the cookstove to lower emissions. And that would be fine, if there were enough improved cookstoves to…

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Earth Day: Discovering Ecosystem Secrets in Carnivorous Plants

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.—Kahlil GibranWhat do a pond or a lake and a carnivorous pitcher plant have in common?The…

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Nitrogen’s Role in Estimating CO2 Emissions from Land Use Change

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Bristol Cabot Institute published their findings in the journal Global…

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UH SOEST and Hawai'i DAR provide new understanding of rare white shark movement around Hawai'i

The paper, titled “Occurrence of White Sharks in Hawaiian Waters”, was written by Kevin Weng of the University of Hawai'i – Manoa's School of Ocean and Earth…

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UBC Researchers Identify Ineffective Biocontrol Agents

Biocontrol programs use an invasive plant’s natural enemies (insects and pathogens) to reduce its population. Most biocontrol programs combine many different…

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Prototype Generators Cut Carbon Monoxide Emissions by 90%

Compared with standard portable generators, CO emissions from the prototype machines were reduced by 90 percent or more, depending on the specific hardware…

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Nanny Withdrawal: Parents Embrace New Responsibilities

By removing the large helper for 30 days – which corresponds to one breeding cycle in this species – a team from the University of Bristol and the University…

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Self-Medication in Animals Much More Widespread Than Believed

But in recent years, the list of animal pharmacists has grown much longer, and it now appears that the practice of animal self-medication is a lot more…

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