Ecology News

Anthropogenic Influences on Estuarine Sedimentation and Ecology: Examples from Varved Sediments of the Pettaquanscutt River Estuary, Rhode Island Contact Citation: Hubeny, J., J. W. King, AND M. G. CANTWELL.

The inconvenient truth about Africa today is that dictatorship presents a far more perilous threat to the survival of Africans than climate change.

The greatest threat facing native animals on Australia's islands is introduced pests, the WWF has warned, as experts gather for an island symposium.

Agricultural runoff from fertilizers, chemicals and animal waste is responsible for about half the pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.

WIGINGTON JR, P. J. Non-Navigable Streams and Wetlands. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/F-09/008, 2009.

The rising level of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be fueling more than climate change.

UNB, Paris Bangladesh's vulnerability to global warming was eloquently discussed in French National Assembly here Wednesday as France and Brazil are poised to make a joint push at the Copenhagen climate change conference for adopting a financial framework to address the adverse impacts of the climate change on the most risky countries in Asia and ...

U.S. Virgin Islands officials met with their British Virgin Islands counterparts recently to discuss the black smoke and toxic fumes that travel from a garbage incinerator on Tortola to the Coral Bay area of St.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan , December 2, 2009 - One-third of the nearly 700 children's toys tested by a nonprofit organization this holiday season contained one or more toxic chemicals, including lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury.

Death by 1000 Docks? Linking Landscape Ecology, Habitat, and Coastal Fisheries. Contact Debbie Janes email: janes.deborah@epa.gov Citation: JORDAN, S. J., T. O'HIGGINS, L. M. SMITH, J. NESTLERODE, AND V. D. ENGLE.

McDonald's restaurants in Europe will all turn dark-green following the fashion of ecology-friendly production and healthy food.

An Oklahoma environmental group has filed a petition to stop a new northwest Arkansas sewage treatment plant that it believes will violate the federal Clean Water Act.

Urgent action is needed to improve the ecology of the River Wandle, environmental campaigners warned last week.

Ecologists have at last worked out a way of using recordings of birdsong to accurately measure the size of bird populations.

Darwin suggested that the action of natural selection can produce new species, but 150 years after the publication of his famous book, 'On the Origin of Species', debate still continues on the mechanisms of speciation.

The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has yielded new fossilized treasures that a scientist says could help rewrite what is known about paleontology in North America.

Here we examine whether this marine resource can influence a terrestrial wolf-deer predator-prey system in coastal British Columbia, Canada.

The Washington Ecology Department is trying to find a way to allow farmers who conserve water to use part of it to irrigate new land.

Forget trying to grow hybrid maize - Africa already has all the crops, storage systems and knowledge that it needs to grow itself out of poverty After working for many years for Professor Wangari Maathai , and then with the African Biodiversity Network , Kenyan ecologist Gathuru Mburu wanted to share his learnings with his own local community who ...

"Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate" , by Stephen H. Schneider: Stephen H. Schneider, winner of one of those $500,000 genius grants, has written a witty, informative and impassioned account of perils he sees in global warming and what to do about them.