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R ichard Hall knows exactly how to locate the birds that call the county landfill home.

EMA is proposing a plan to deter fire danger by clearcutting several forest areas in the hills, targetting eucalyptus mostly, and spraying herbicides to kill undergrowth.

The area is home to Queensland koalas, wombats, Parma wallabies and 23 species of Australian birds, including the kookaburra, bowerbird, palm cockatoos and Gouldian finches.

Jobs, say hundreds of thousands of people. Pollution, say hundreds of thousands of others.

This week in Asheville, N.C., the IUFRO "Tree Biotechnology" conference will meet.

The Court of Appeals has stopped the government from further conducting field tests on genetically modified variety of eggplant that produces its own pesticide.

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At this point, we at DKos are all dreadfully familiar with the evils of Monsanto, but not content with suing farmers with cross-polinated fields and engineering the poisons and poison-resistant plants which crowd out all natural foods in our markets, the Evil Giant has teamed up with its government pal, the EPA, to arbitrarily increase the ... (more)

Vallejo High School BioTech Academy students work with Marianne Butler from the Solano Resource Conservation District collecting water samples from Chabot Creek in Vallejo as part of their science class.

Opponents of a 7,305-yard golf course at Washington State University contend the school is mining a declining aquifer that provides water to the region for an amenity.

For the past 15 years, San Francisco's Mission District has undergone phases of real estate gentrification that came with each new technology boom.

University of Canterbury marine expert Professor David Schiel is investigating human-induced and natural long-term changes in ocean forces and sea temperatures around the country.

First the bad news: The "safest" herbicide in the history of science may be harming us in ways we're just beginning to understand.

The study says 60 out of 68 U.S. species, or 88 percent of fish species found exclusively in large-river ecosystems like the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers, are of state, federal or international conservation concern.

Beginning in late July, Katherine Hart , of Grayslake, will study conservation and marine ecology in the Central American country of Belize.

Forest Ecology and Management , Vol. 260, No. 2. , pp. 181-192, doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2010.04.015 Interest in the use of bioenergy is increasing because of the need to mitigate climate change, the increasing costs and finite supply of fossil fuels, and the declining price of lumber and paper.

In early May, Professor Robin Chazdon, a tropical ecologist in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was one of 18 scientists from around the world summoned to a special committee on tropical forest ecology and climate change at the Royal Society and St.

Special to the Daily/Mark Lance Christopher Lambrecht, far right, supervises as students of his Stream Ecology class at Summit High School start the release of rainbow trout into the Blue River.

Researchers led by the University of Leeds and the Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in the Netherlands found evidence of dramatic reductions in the diversity of species in Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands between the 1950s and 1980s.