Ecology News

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 ...

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.

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.

Abstract Specialization character of phytophagous insects is one of the key examples of insect-plant relationship.

The Port Angeles Harbor-Works Development Authority may know by the end of the week if Rayonier Inc.

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 .

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.

NEW NEW Abstract Abstract Researchers have identified urban ecology as a new field integrating social and ecological science.

The federal stimulus money is making a difference in the lives of several hundred young people in Sonoma County.

Costa Rica tops the "Happy Planet Index," a ranking of ecological efficiency among the world's nations, survey officials say.

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.

The ability of plants to tell the time, a mechanism common to all living beings, enables them to survive, grow and reproduce.

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.

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.

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.

The people of nearly all countries are unhappy about the condition of the environment to a certain extent.

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.

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.

Lancaster scientist Canon Professor John Rodwell has been awarded the 2009 President's Medal by the Institute for Ecology and Environmental Management.

Three decades have passed since then-Gov. Brendan T. Byrne accomplished what many thought impossible.