By Tom Spears, The Ottawa Citizen September 7, 2010 OTTAWA — Common plants in eastern Ontario from blueberries to roses to apple trees are already in danger of not being able to pollinate because of a bee shortage, new Canadian research suggests. A long-term University of Toronto study on bees and pollination shows evidence that […]
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent05 Sep 2010 8:15AM BST Ornithologists have found that species including the turtle dove, willow warbler, tree pipit and redstart are struggling to find enough food in the weeks before they set off in the spring to fly to the UK. The scientists believe that years of poor rainfall in sub-Saharan […]
ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2010) — The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) are requesting that the Government of Tanzania reconsider the proposed construction of a commercial road through the world’s best known wildlife sanctuary — Serengeti National Park — and recommend that alternative routes be used that can meet […]
BBC15 August 2010 Warmer seas could be responsible for a change in the type of dolphins spotted off the coast of the North East of England, a survey has suggested. The Northeast Cetacean Project found an increase in sightings of common, bottlenose and Risso’s dolphins – species associated with warmer waters. There have also been […]
By Paula Kahumbu, Executive Director of WildlifeDirect, special to www.mongabay.com July 08, 2010 Tourists, conservationists, individuals, and tour companies have launched an international outcry against the Tanzanian authorities in response to the announcement of the planned construction of the trans-Serengeti Highway highway. There is even a Facebook group and an online petition with 5,038 signatures. […]
(PhysOrg.com) — Climate change has led to masses of bizarre swimming crabs to invade the North Sea – hundreds of miles from their usual home, new research has revealed. The exotic Henslow swimming crabs have moved from the warm seas off Portugal to the increasingly comfortable waters off Britain’s east coast. Experts made the discovery […]
This figure shows annual change in latitude of bird center of abundance for 305 widespread bird species in North America from 1966 to 2005. Each winter is represented by the year in which it began (for example, winter 2005–2006 is shown as 2005). The shaded band shows the likely range of values, based on the […]
By Matthew McDermott, New York, NY on 06. 9.10Science & Technology (science) Vegetation around the globe has already been moving in response to global climate change, a new report in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography shows. In fact the report authors say that since the 18th century they have found fifteen cases where biomes […]
Christmas Bird Count (CBC) show that the warmer winters in recent decades have played an important role in shifting winter bird ranges to the north. CBC data from the mid-1960s through 2006 show that 170 (56%) of the 305 most widespread, regularly occurring species have shifted their ranges to the north, whereas only 71 species […]
(University of Sheffield) The onset of summer in England has been advancing since the mid 1950s, research from a pair of University of Sheffield geographers has shown. The investigations, conducted by Amy Kirbyshire, a former undergraduate of the University, and Professor Grant Bigg, Head of the Department of Geography at the University, examined records of […]
