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SFA faculty to be honored at annual Gala
... Dec. 12, at the Baker Pattillo Student Center. Dr. David Kulhavy, professor of forest entomology and landscape ecology, is the recipient of the Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching, and Dr. Warren C. Conway, associate professor of wildlife ... Comment?
Soon, a certificate course in ornithology
In a bid to promote scientific awareness about birds, avian ecology and conservation aspects among people, the ELA foundation and M E S Abasaheb Garware College will conduct the sixth certificate course in basic ornithology from December 7. According to a press note, the course structure includes the history of ornithology, evolution of birds, ... Comment?
Protecting the forests, and hoping for payback
... not as big a carbon pulse to the atmosphere as people think." Law, along with Mark E. Harmon, a professor of forest ecology at Oregon State, and others say that forest policy should be tailored to individual forests and that the risk of carbon ... Comment?
Reflections on the Origin of Species : Greg Laden's Blog
... by the influential Louis Agassiz, had several God-made origins each representing a different combination of habitat, ecology, climate, and human race. Ice ages would periodically wipe everything out and then God would replace the bits, much like how ... Comment?
Ecologist sounds out bird numbers
... endangered species. The scientists' work, reported on Friday in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, is being regarded as a major advance because it enables scientists to monitor bird populations using an acoustic technique ... Comment?
Middle East executives agree: Governments need to do more to require...
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... alleviation are either not relevant or not currently being addressed by their companies. Considering the fragile ecology and geo-political context of the region, Sustainability Advisory Group, together with many of the respondents, believe that ... Comment?
Saving wild Florida, one camera click at a time
... to achieve lasting conservation, you cannot do it through science alone," said Ward, who earned a master's degree in ecology from the University of Florida in 2007. "In the calendar, we have the state's leading photographers, shooting in a very ... Comment?
Group seeks to halt Ark. sewage treatment plant
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... Illinois River basin, which is already impaired by phosphorous. STIR is asking the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission, which sets environmental policy for that state, to reconsider the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality's ... Comment?
Criminal gangs plunder Madagascar forests
... the plundering of the forests. Decades of logging, mining and slash-and-burn farming have destroyed up to 90% of the ecology on the world's fourth largest island. The report called on the government to place rosewood and ebony under the protection ... Comment?
Biological research snapshots
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... studied the colonisation by sessile biota of artificial reefs off Spinola Bay, Francesca Pia Gravino studied the ecology of three local cartilaginous fish species (several cartilaginous species are currently endangered as a result of ... Comment?
Clark's deed was dirty - Sun, 29 Nov 2009 PST
... click on "Reducing phosphorus pollution" in the right-hand column. Jani Gilbert Communications manager Department of Ecology, Eastern Region Comment?
Officials say nitrogen deposition big concern for Rocky
... other industrial sources is deposited into the water and soil at high elevations. The nitrogen wreaks havoc on the ecology of alpine lakes and mountain soil, starving fish of nutrients, altering the chemistry of trees and plants and increasing ... Comment?
Oiled wildlife rescue and response goes mobile
Officials from the Washington departments of Ecology and Fish & Wildlife got a firsthand demonstration today about how refining, oil handling and vessel shipping companies in the state can effectively set up a mobile response operation to rescue and care for wildlife affected by oil spills. Comment?
Widnes municipal golf club set to swing back into action
... the ground. The creation of a new channel for the brook will also provide an opportunity to make improvements to the ecology along the watercourse. The course will then be newly surfaced. Remediation is scheduled to take two years. Halton Council ... Comment?
UA researchers retrace journeys of yore
... to a 4-degree Fahrenheit rise in the area's average temperatures. Their report, published last year in the journal Ecology, makes no grand claim for proving global warming. Miller-Rushing attributes much of the temperature change in the Concord area ... Comment?
Protecting new, improved Beaver Brook
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... access to more areas in the reservation; and finding ways for school groups to use the parkland for biology and ecology studies. Agency officials unveiled the plan at a Nov. 17 public hearing at the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Habitat Wildlife ... Comment?
BC-FORESTS-CARBON-ART-605&ADD-NYT
... not as big a carbon pulse to the atmosphere as people think." Law, along with Mark E. Harmon, a professor of forest ecology at Oregon State, and others say that forest policy should be tailored to individual forests and that the risk of carbon ... Comment?
SUNDAY: Oklahoma group fights Arkansas sewage plant
... Illinois River basin, which is already impaired by phosphorous. STIR is asking the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission to reconsider the Arkansas Department of Environmental Qualitya TMs October permitting decision. STIR claims the ... Comment?
'Gangs plunder Madagascar forests'
... of the forests. Decades of logging, mining and slash-and-burn farming have destroyed up to 90 percent of the ecology on the world's fourth largest island. The report called on the government to place rosewood and ebony under the protection of the ... Comment?
Island County's new $5 land fee is official
... financial liability in case the special assessment is invalidated. They also approved a letter to the Department of Ecology supporting the Whidbey Island Conservation District's application for a 2011 Centennial Clean Water Funds for the Whidbey ... Comment?