By Roger Harrabin Environment analyst, BBC News15 April 2011 Air pollution is damaging 60% of Europe’s prime wildlife sites in meadows, forests and heaths, according to a new report. A team of EU scientists said nitrogen emissions from cars, factories and farming was threatening biodiversity. It’s the second report this week warning of the on-going […]
PARIS, April 26 (AFP) — Himalayan villagers have won the backing of climate science for their suspicions that snow cover, water resources and the ecosystem are changing in their region, a study published Wednesday said. The authors of the research carried out by Britain’s Royal Society say this is the first time that subjective perceptions […]
Media ContactsCheryl Dybas, NSF (703) 292-7734 cdybas@nsf.govTerry Devitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison (608) 262-8282 trdevitt@wisc.eduApril 28, 2011 Researchers eavesdropping on complex signals from a remote Wisconsin lake have detected what they say is an unmistakable warning–a death knell–of the impending collapse of the lake’s aquatic ecosystem. The finding, reported today in the journal Science by a […]
By Sobhapati Samom, Hueiyen News Service30 March 2011 Imphal: The largest global environmental network, International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN), has listed 15 fish species including seven from Manipur as ‘Endangered freshwater fish species’ in their recently released red list of threatened species report on the status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in eastern Himalaya […]
Contact: Fariss Samarrai, fls4f@virginia.edu28 March 2011 (University of Virginia) Russia’s boreal forest – the largest continuous expanse of forest in the world, found in the country’s cold northern regions – is undergoing an accelerating large-scale shift in vegetation types as a result of globally and regionally warming climate. That in turn is creating an even […]
By Andrew Stern; editing by Vicki AllenFri Mar 25, 2011 CHICAGO (Reuters) – Voltage coursing through electrical barriers designed to keep invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes may need to be raised to keep out juvenile fish, U.S. officials said on Friday. The Army Corps of Engineers has mounted a multimillion-dollar effort to […]
By KELLY DOHERTY, Associated Press23 March 2011 Up to 45 rare species of wallaby, bandicoot and other Australian animals could become extinct within 20 years unless urgent action is taken to control introduced predators and other threats, scientists warned Wednesday. Dozens of mammals, birds, lizards and other vertebrates in the remote northwestern Kimberley region are […]
By Eric NiilerMarch 20, 2011 Sven Thatje has been predicting an invasion of deep-water crabs into shallow Antarctic waters for the past several years. But the biologist and his colleagues got their first look at the march of the seafloor predators while riding on an icebreaker across frozen Antarctic seas this winter. The ship towed […]
By MONIQUE POLAK, Postmedia News11 March 2011 In his seven terms as mayor of Salluit, Qalingo Angutigirk has tried to look after his people, and their land. But it’s not an easy job when the ground is literally shifting under his feet. Since 1998 Salluit, the province’s second northernmost community, has been hit by a […]
By JANE HAMMOND, The West Australian March 4, 2011 Up to 250,000ha of the State’s jarrah and marri forests is under attack from an army of hairy caterpillars. The creatures, known as gum-leaf skeletonizers, have stripped bare sections of the southern jarrah forest. Department of Environment and Conservation entomologist Janet Farr said the outbreak was […]
