Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

Fish Migration: Roach Seek Safer Habitats in Streams

A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that roach fish leave lakes and move into surrounding streams or wetlands, where they are safer from predators.

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Elephants are vanishing from DRC's best-run reserve

ccording to the latest survey, 5,100, or 75 percent, of the reserve's elephants have been killed in the last 15 years. These numbers are particularly shocking…

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New Strategy for Climate Change: Protecting Wildlife and Ecosystems

Researchers have successfully piloted a process that enables natural resource managers to take action to conserve particular wildlife, plants and ecosystems as…

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Impact of Silver Nanoparticles on Plant Biomass Reduction

Fifty days after scientists applied a single low dose of silver nanoparticles, the experimental environments produced about a third less biomass in some plants…

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Leatherback Sea Turtle Stronghold Faces Decline, New Study Shows

Researchers from the State University of Papua Indonesia, NOAA Fisheries Service, University of Alabama at Birmingham and World Wildlife Fund Indonesia…

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Exurban Residences Impact Bird Communities in Adirondack Park

As part of the study, scientists sampled the presence of 20 species of birds both near and far from 30 rural residences in the Adirondack Park. Calculating…

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New Coral Bleaching Maps Show 2056 Risk Levels

In a study published today in Nature Climate Change researchers used the latest emissions scenarios and climate models to show how varying levels of carbon…

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Stanford scientists help shed light on key component of China's pollution problem

It's no secret that China is faced with some of the world's worst pollution. Until now, however, information on the magnitude, scope and impacts of a major…

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19 Baby Siamese Crocs Released in Laos

The Wildlife Conservation Society announced today the successful release of 19 critically endangered baby Siamese crocodiles into a local wetland in Lao PDR,…

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Understanding Coral Genes for Effective Reef Conservation

This information could be used to conserve or rebuild reefs in areas affected by climate change, by changes in extreme weather patterns, increasing…

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Large Herbivores Help Buffer Climate Change Impact on Plants

This is a question of increasing relevance in the field of climate change and is the focus of a new study to be published in the journal Proceedings of the…

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Tree-Ring Data Show History, Pattern to Droughts

Dendrochronologists have shown that tree-ring data produce a remarkably accurate history of droughts and other climate changes. Combined with reliable drought…

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Wiring the Ocean: Live Animal Movement Tracking Technology

Stanford marine sciences professor and Stanford Woods Institute Senior Fellow Barbara Block is using technology to enable live feeds of animal movements…

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Harnessing Soil’s Power for a Cleaner Environment

The ground plays an important role in maintaining a clean environment by serving as a natural water filtration and purification system, said Henry Lin,…

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Sea Ice Melting Disrupts Greenhouse Gas Balance in Arctic

According to the study, the melting of sea ice in the Arctic has a tangible impact on the balance of greenhouse gases in this region, both in terms of uptake…

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Rapid changes in the Arctic ecosystem: Study published in Science Express

When the ice melts, as was the case during the ice minimum in 2012, these algae sink rapidly to the bottom of the sea at a depth of several thousands of…

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