Ecology News

Costa Rica tops the "Happy Planet Index," a ranking of ecological efficiency among the world's nations, survey officials say.

Native pollinator specialist Neal Williams, former member of the faculty at Bryn Mawr College and a researcher closely linked with the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.

The ability of plants to tell the time, a mechanism common to all living beings, enables them to survive, grow and reproduce.

The Eco-City is cooperative project between the Peoplea s Republic of China and the Republic of Singapore to construct a new environmentally-friendly city near Tianjin, China.

A group of Washington state farmers have joined two environmental groups in filing a lawsuit to block a proposed feedlot from using a well that is exempt from requiring state permits to water up to 30,000 cattle.

As summer progresses and plants get bigger, the Meredith Conservation Commission is taking steps to help stop the spread of invasive, non-native plants - and no, they're not talking about milfoil.

The people of nearly all countries are unhappy about the condition of the environment to a certain extent.

As the crow flies - or more appropriately as the snake slithers - the Savannah River Ecology Lab in South Carolina is roughly 200 miles from my house.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s was the trigger for ending the unsustainable, industrial agriculture that Cuba had practised for decades.

Lancaster scientist Canon Professor John Rodwell has been awarded the 2009 President's Medal by the Institute for Ecology and Environmental Management.

Three decades have passed since then-Gov. Brendan T. Byrne accomplished what many thought impossible.

Posted by: Ken Blanchard - 06/27/2009 12:52 AM The Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act passed the House today 219 to 212 .

HP today announced it will be the official technology provider for the upcoming Plastiki expedition led by adventurer and environmental storyteller David de Rothschild and his organization Adventure Ecology.

With Lake Tahoe temperatures up by a 2-degree average since 1939, scientists are studying how warmer weather could affect the lake's environment and ecology.

Rare fish squeezed by China's decades of frantic dam-building could be pushed over the brink into extinction if a hydropower project planned for a protected stretch of the Yangtze river goes ahead, experts say.

One by one, seven slithering Burmese pythons were dumped into a snake pit surrounded by 400 feet of reinforced fence at the Savannah River Ecology Lab in South Carolina.

YAKIMA, Wash.- After months of waiting, there's finally some action on creating more water storage for the Yakima River Basin.

"To thine own self be true" may take on a new meaning -- not with people or animal behavior but with plant behavior.

Lawmakers yesterday started discussions on a draft law to step up ecology and environment of the country's offshore islands.

The blues are back: Butterfly species reborn 30 years after 'extinction' By David Derbyshire Last updated at 9:01 AM on 16th June 2009 Thirty years ago it was officially declared extinct in Britain.