Ecology News

By Sheree Bega An Australian mining outfit has set its sights on South Africa's youngest World Heritage site: the Vredefort Dome.

Mike Gappa long suspected Wisconsin's black bear population was being underestimated by the Department of Natural Resources.

The state Department of Ecology announced Monday that it will begin a fast-track review of alternatives to the proposed Black Rock reservoir, another indication the huge project is in political trouble and ...

Dead fish and water that looks like pea soup. These are signs of blue-green algae contamination.

Lesley Head in her article Cultural ecology: the problematic human and the terms of engagement discusses the current - terms of engagement' between the cultural and the ecological.

Australian government leaders struck an agreement Thursday to conserve water on a crucial river system, but Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the deal will not end the threat that a record drought poses to the ...

Stanford, CA- It's not just about climate change anymore. Besides loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases, human emissions of carbon dioxide have also begun to alter the chemistry of the ...

Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Allergy Respiratory / Asthma Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Article Date: 02 Jul 2008 Fungi can cause a number of life-threatening ...

EUROPEAN UNION environment ministers began an informal two-day meeting here on Thursday aimed at clearing some of the many obstacles besetting their goal of slashing carbon emissions by 2020.

A U.S. scientist says global warming, fishing and petroleum pollution are all contributing to declines, some severe, in many species of penguins.

Assistant Professor Brett Melbourne of CU-Boulder's ecology and evolutionary biology department said current mathematical models used to determine extinction threat, or "red-listed" status, of species worldwide ...

The death toll of fish killed in a polluted river in Cumbria has risen to more than 4,000. At first it was thought 100 fish died when a cloudy white substance appeared in a 1.9-mile stretch of the River Ellen ...

Main Category: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Also Included In: Public Health ; Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 28 Jun 2008 - 0:00 PDT A major review by University of Adelaide researchers shows that the ...

A marine ecologist says the rising number of groper deaths along Queensland's far north coast could undermine the reef ecosystem.

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Saturday, June 28, 2008 Source: NASA Science Mission Directorate - Comments This amendment announces the final text and proposal due dates for the program element in Appendix A.2 ...

A third coyote has been trapped in the Brooks in Estero where a spate of attacks has led to people with small pets to be frightened, officials said Thursday.

No sex. If a male Japanese beetle is unable to detect the sex pheromone released by a female, he won't be able to locate her and reproduce.

Higher temperatures helped a new strain of West Nile virus invade and spread across North America, according to a study published in the June 27 issue of the journal PLoS Pathogens .

For most, the mention of endangered species conjures images of faraway black rhinos, mountain gorillas or Siberian tigers.

Years of industrial and agricultural growth have left an indelible imprint on many formerly vibrant U.S. ecosystems.