Richard Heinberg on a Post-Carbon Future

22 Jan, 2008 10:14 am Ecologist Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over, Power Down, The Oil Depletion Protocol, and Peak Everything, talks about energy wars,...

Deep-Sea Biodiversity Conservation Needed to Avoid Ecosystem Collapse

12 Feb, 2008 11:53 am The exploration of the abysses of our planet is one of the last frontiers of ecological research. The dark portion of the biosphere likely hosts millions...

Trouble for Birds

21 Dec, 2007 11:41 am 6-14% of birds are likely to go extinct in the 21st century as a result of habitat loss, hunting, pet trade, and introduced animals like cats that kill...

Habitat Protection for the "Big Picture" of Environment Conservation

27 Dec, 2007 12:08 pm Amphibians across the globe are facing a mass extinction event, believed by many to be worse than any other witnessed by humans...

Global Warming Creates a Stairway to Heaven

21 Dec, 2007 11:41 am Climate change is leading to increased temperatures, especially noticeable in mountains and other cooler climes. Many animals and plants,...

Are Snails Too Slow for their Own Good?

25 Sep, 2007 10:10 am Recent research in south-east England shows how constraints on the dispersal of threatened and declining snails has been overlooked as a constraint on...