Streams are Important Nitrogen Filters in the Landscape

31 Mar, 2008 01:12 pm If you plan to vacation at the beach this summer or open the tap for a clean glass of water, that small stream in your neighborhood may be more important...

Ancient Tundra Fires Provide Clues for the Future of the Arctic

28 Mar, 2008 12:46 pm The impacts of climate change in the Arctic depend strongly upon feedbacks between different components of the environment.

Stabilizing the Climate Requires Near-Zero Carbon Emissions

28 Feb, 2008 11:30 am What warming is produced by an individual release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere? This question was addressed by Damon Matthews (Concordia University...

Reviving the Coral Reef

20 Feb, 2008 12:37 pm A report from CNN examines a project which uses electricity to revive the dying coral reef in Bali.

A New Way to Assess Local Ecosystems Sustainability

29 Feb, 2008 09:08 am Ecosystems are in flux around the world. Important species are disappearing due to mismanagement and climate change, while invasive new species are appearing...

Where Ecological Footprints Fall: Poor Nations Fare Badly

18 Feb, 2008 01:05 pm In the past 50 years, human society has rapidly transformed the environment at a dizzying pace, and poor nations have been made to bear a disproportionate...

Daily Greens News Report

20 Dec, 2007 01:30 pm Did the Bali climate summit yield an agreement? Can recycling be criminal? Should left turns be outlawed? You've got questions...we've got answers...

Human Influence on Ecology

18 Dec, 2007 11:30 am Scientists have reclassified biomes like deserts and forests into ecosystems that show how humans have altered the Earth. Jorge Ribas (Discovery News)...

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,...

Climate Change and Out-Migration

4 Dec, 2007 11:14 am In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi in the US, causing huge damages. As a result, more than a million people left the region...

Inverting Sustainable Development: Rethinking Ecology, Innovation, and Spatial Limits

10 Oct, 2007 12:38 pm The public debate on environmental sustainability seems to be oscillating between two unsound extremes: either radical reforms aimed at dramatic reductions...

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...

Hot Running Water? Climate Change Effects on Stream Ecology

15 May, 2007 12:36 pm Recently, we reported on a 25-year study that has shown just how far-reaching climatic effects on streams might be. Writing in ?...

Human Behavior Needs To Change To Preserve Biodiversity

15 Jan, 2007 11:13 am Dr. Michel Loreau is professor of theoretical ecology at McGill University. He was the recipient of the Silver Medal of the National Centre for Scientific...

Patagonian Ecosystem Threatened By Anchovy Fishing

5 Jan, 2007 03:23 pm Ms. Skewgar and her associates published a paper in Science about the threat to Patagonia wildlife posed by the opening of an anchovy fishery. Ms...

Climate Change Affects Marine Fish Species

5 Jan, 2007 03:24 pm In the January 5 issue of Science, Dr. Hans-Otto Portner and his colleague published their findings on their study of climate influences on ecosystems...

Why Hydropower is Not Clean Energy

9 Jan, 2007 02:53 pm Dr. Philip M. Fearnside is a research scientist in the Ecology department at the National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA) in Manaus,...

Biodiversity Erodes Fast in Amazonian Forest Fragments

6 Dec, 2006 11:11 am Amazonian rainforests contain some of the most biologically-rich ecosystems on the planet and are being cleared and fragmented at truly alarming rates...

The Need for Better Quality Data to Understand Avian Influenza in Wild Birds

23 Nov, 2006 05:11 pm Since H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza was first isolated from poultry in China in 1996, this disease has been shown to be spread by infected poultry...