Ecology News

It is not too early to start thinking about who might be the best choice for a Green Party presidential candidate in 2012.

Sunderlal Bahuguna during the news conference in Guwahati on Monday. Guwahati, Nov.

This just in from the Boston Globe : After months of speculating, Curt Spalding, the longtime executive director of Save the Bay in Rhode Island, has just been named New Englanda s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. a ' An Oklahoma environmental group says it has asked the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission to suspend a permit granted more than two years ago for a sewage-treatment plant that would discharge into a tributary of the Illinois River, which flows into northeast Oklahoma.

Airborne nitrogen pollution from vehicle exhaust and farm fertilizer is turning algae in the alpine lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park into junk food for fish, a study says.

A proposal to reduce phosphorus pollution in the Spokane River over the next decade has drawn criticism from business, government and environmental groups.

Peter Mirtschin excited by his tiger snake find Map: Clayton 5256 When Peter Mirtschin recently found a tiger snake in his garage at Clayton on the lower reaches of the Murray in South Australia, he was over the moon.

Murray Fisher had a dream: Take the 600 miles of New York City's coastlines and all the water surrounding it, and start a maritime high school that would teach inner-city kids about their watery world - everything from boat building and ocean ecology to oyster growing.

Their findings, published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series , show the impact of changing coastal and ocean temperatures on fisheries from Cape Hatteras, N.C., to the Canadian border.

CAMAT [Chitral Association for Mountain Area Tourism] celebrated International Climate Day of Action, Oct 24, 2009 in the Kalash valley of Rumbor, district Chitral with a philosophy of 'think globally, act locally' in mind.

First it was the Burmese python. Now scientists believe as many as nine non-native snakes representing five species could become established in portions of the United States.

You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that it loses itself early and does not find itself any more.

Could that bee buzzing around.the blooms in your garden be the last one you'll ever see? Versions of this question haunt many of the world's leading bee experts, a good number of whom were gathered at York U. two weeks back to strategize around "barcoding" the DNA of the nearly 20,000 known bee species and the estimated thousands that haven't yet ...

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that Wabaunsee County commissioners have the right to prohibit the construction of commercial wind farms in their county.

Shimla, Oct 30 : The central government plans to release green dividends and a green bonus to the Himalayan states from the next financial year as a compensatory measure for protecting their ecology, Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh said Friday.

Sandia researchers and others at the University of New Mexico , the Joint BioEnergy Institute , Novozymes and North Carolina State University's Center for Integrated Fungal Research have received a DNA sequencing award from the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute to study microbial genes in arid grasslands.

Comparison of the axioms supporting the Newtonian world view with those underlying the organicist and stochastic metaphors that motivate much of ecosystems science reveals strong disagreementsa 'especially regarding the nature of the causes of events and the scalar domains over which these causes can operate.

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Thursday called for formation of an international committee under the UN supervision to oversee efforts of tackling the grim challenges of climate change and assisting and rehabilitating the victims.

Freshwater ecology classes offered at S-GI Ecology Class at Springville-Griffith is a big hit COLLECTING SAMPLES - Exploring a local pond ecosystem are, from left, kneeling, Dominic Sciabarrasi and Abby Hens; seated, Quentin Gominiak, Tucker Grimm, Kyle McCarthy, Jobe Fleming and Wyatt Sibiga; standing, Josh Baker, Don Piatek, Mason Meyers, Kayla ...

The study, which appears in the December 2009 issue of the journal The American Naturalist, says that positive feedback loops between fire and trees associated with savannas can make fires more likely in these ecosystems.