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Car washers seeing more rules on soapy runoff
It's one of the great American summer pastimes: Pulling the car onto the driveway on a sun-drenched Saturday afternoon, lathering it up with soap, rinsing it off and watching the sudsy water flow toward the storm drain.Now, officials in Washington and elsewhere are telling residents to either take that old ride to the car wash, or hold the soap and ...
In Defense of the Cow: How Eating Meat Could Help Slow Climate Change
Should we be eating more beef in order to slow global warming? It sounds counterintuitive, but it may be so: Cattle could be part of the whole ecological equation to solving climate change and restoring healthy, bio-diverse ecosystems.
Faith, economics and ecology: New sins, new virtues
As the world heats up and economic dislocation ravages the poor, religious leaders offer up their diagnoses and prescriptions PA GLOBALISATION, technology and growth are in themselves neither positive or negative; they are whatever humanity makes of them.
Why Are Phytophagous Insects Typically Specialists?
Abstract Specialization character of phytophagous insects is one of the key examples of insect-plant relationship.
Harbor-Works asks Rayonier for funding
The Port Angeles Harbor-Works Development Authority may know by the end of the week if Rayonier Inc.
Environmental groups collaborate on regional stewardship symposium
For Pittsburgh's environmental stewards, community and collaboration are key. In an effort to further partnerships and increase awareness of volunteer opportunities, seven instrumental groups are teaming up for the first-ever Pittsburgh Regional Environmental Stewardship Symposium .
A case study of urban ecological networks and a sustainable city: Tehrana s metropolitan area
NEW sustainable_development NEW Abstract Abstract The aim of this study is to propose the application of landscape ecology in planning urban ecological networks to conserve nature in urban landscapes and to develop a sustainable use of urban lands.
Interdisciplinary foundations of urban ecology
NEW NEW Abstract Abstract Researchers have identified urban ecology as a new field integrating social and ecological science.
Sonoma Launches Green Job Youth Corps With Stimulus Cash
The federal stimulus money is making a difference in the lives of several hundred young people in Sonoma County.
Costa Rica leads 'Happy Planet Index'
Costa Rica tops the "Happy Planet Index," a ranking of ecological efficiency among the world's nations, survey officials say.
Native pollination specialist joins UCD entomology dept.
Native pollinator specialist Neal Williams, former member of the faculty at Bryn Mawr College and a researcher closely linked with the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.
Plants' Internal Clock May Improve Climate- Change Models
The ability of plants to tell the time, a mechanism common to all living beings, enables them to survive, grow and reproduce.
Intertek to support development of new a green citya - Tianjin Eco-City, China
The Eco-City is cooperative project between the Peoplea s Republic of China and the Republic of Singapore to construct a new environmentally-friendly city near Tianjin, China.
Washington state farmers sue to stop feedlot plan
A group of Washington state farmers have joined two environmental groups in filing a lawsuit to block a proposed feedlot from using a well that is exempt from requiring state permits to water up to 30,000 cattle.
Meredith learns to fight off alien invaders
As summer progresses and plants get bigger, the Meredith Conservation Commission is taking steps to help stop the spread of invasive, non-native plants - and no, they're not talking about milfoil.
Russians say ecology worrisome, but Western military threat, worse
The people of nearly all countries are unhappy about the condition of the environment to a certain extent.
Scott Hollifield: Python project bound to go Horribly Wrong
As the crow flies - or more appropriately as the snake slithers - the Savannah River Ecology Lab in South Carolina is roughly 200 miles from my house.
Cuba's green revolutionCOMMENT & ANALYSIS, 29 June 2009 The...
The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s was the trigger for ending the unsustainable, industrial agriculture that Cuba had practised for decades.
Priest honoured for ecology service
Lancaster scientist Canon Professor John Rodwell has been awarded the 2009 President's Medal by the Institute for Ecology and Environmental Management.
Stewards of Pinelands cite 30 years of achievement
Three decades have passed since then-Gov. Brendan T. Byrne accomplished what many thought impossible.