Ecology News

HIGHLAND PLANTATION a ' Longtime environmental activist and wind-power supporter Jonathan Carter of Lexington Township joined forces this month with a grassroots coalition trying to stop sprawling industrial wind farms atop Maine's mountains.

Columbia, Mo., Mayor Darwin Hindman visited Columbia, Md., Nov. 3 and took a bike ride around Columbia with about 30 bike enthusiasts.

Most countries throughout the world participate in the $40-million-per-year culinary trade of frog legs in some way, with 75 percent of frog legs consumed in France, Belgium and the United States.

The Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy and Terranea Resort are sponsoring a free lecture Tuesday titled "Southern California Wildfires: Balancing Fire Hazard and Natural Resources." Jon E. Keeley, a respected expert on fire, local ecology and post-fire regeneration, will present science- and research-based information about wildfires and how ...

Hamburg Germany is a wealthy European port city known for paramount sustainable development.

Investigators on Harbor Island are trying to figure out what caused a large boat to sink at the mouth of the Duwamish River.

Environmental management practices are trending away from simple, local-scale assessments toward complex, multiple-stressor regional assessments.

ASTER was developed by the U.S. EPA Mid-Continent Ecology Division, Duluth, MN to assist regulators in performing ecological risk assessments.

Excerpts from Oliver Rackham, "Ecology and Pseudo-Ecology: The Example of Ancient Greece," in Graham Shipley and John Salmon, edd., Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity: Environment and Culture , pp.

With temperatures dipping and winter planning how to best sock the state, it's time for--planting? Energy companies wait until late October to plant seeds to help reclaim disturbed areas.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report " Mathematical Methods in Biology " to their offering.

Kansas University researchers are working to turn microbes from treated sewage into a commercially viable biofuel, fluid that one day could be used to power the nation's cars, trucks, airplanes and other modes of transportation.

Abstract Although pairwise interactions have always had a key role in ecology and evolutionary biology, the recent increase in the amount and availability of biological data has placed a new focus on the complex networks embedded in biological systems.

Chip Taylor is used to people giving him strange looks. As director of Monarch Watch and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas, Taylor has placed radio tags on butterflies and tracked them across pastures and plains.

Studies conducted in California and elsewhere provide support for the use of marine reserves as a tool for managing fisheries and protecting marine habitats, according to biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The kelp forests off southern California are considered to be some of the most diverse and productive ecosystems on the planet, yet a new study indicates that today's kelp beds are less extensive and lush than those in the recent past.

Amphibians, for years considered a leading indicator of environmental degradation, are not uniquely susceptible to pollution, according to a meta-analysis to be published in Ecology Letters .

They're our nearest neighbours and closest friends - but they can also turn nasty.

While government, private and educational entities work in earnest to bring large-scale wind turbines to Maine, a newly formed group of concerned residents says the promises being made to Maine people are too good to be true.

Kevin Craig may have the largest lab of any biology professor at Florida State University.