Scientific American:
It has been 22 years since the last 22 California condors ( Gymnogyps californianus ) were collected from the wild and placed in captive breeding programs. The species, which nearly went extinct due to habitat loss, poaching (Read More)
WWF - Environmental & Conservation News: complete listing:
Vietnam – Highly trained detection dogs are being used help to determine the population status of the Javan rhino in Vietnam, in an attempt to save one of the world’s rarest mammals from extinction.WWF researchers have teamed (Read More)
Hunger in the News:
World Food Programme (WFP) country director Ricaldo Pablo has advised farmers to adopt conservation farming to improve production in view of the reduced inputs in the 2009/2010 farming season. (..) “Fertiliser per se cannot c (Read More)
MSNBC:
Descendants of 14 bison shipped to Santa Catalina Island in 1924 to make a Western movie have multiplied so much that a conservation group is about to give females birth control injections. Santa Catalina Island Californ (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Problem of biodiversity loss has been 'eased off centre stage' by focus on climate change, according to Prof Edward Wilson, the ecologist described as 'Darwin's natural heir'The diversity of life on Earth is undergoing an "im (Read More)
Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy:
This amazing shot by Flickr user “Soggydan” Dan Bennett of a leaping coho salmon in Issaquah Creek, Washington state was taken with a 60mm lens — which basically means the photographer could have reached out and touched this (Read More)
SF Gate:
China raised electricity rates for businesses and industries Friday, part of a long-term effort to adjust prices to reflect costs and promote energy saving as the country struggles to meet soaring demand. The 5.7 percent incr (Read More)
SF Gate:
Managers of the nation's largest single conservation area are offering up to 12 teachers and community leaders an opportunity to spend a week in the pristine reserve north of Hawaii. The Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monu (Read More)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
Syed Idid, an urban design and conservation expert in Malaysia, has earned the twin cities of Melaka and Penang the status of world heritage cities by Unesco. (Read More)
Stop Global Warming:
In the past few decades, the number of electronic gadgets sucking up energy in American households has increased at a staggering pace. Although experts have offered up many different ways for cutting back on phantom loads and (Read More)
Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy:
Here’s an all-too-frequent out-of-office autoreply from conservationists these days:I am currently away from the office attending a UNDP meeting. Following this I am participating in a CBD working group, an IUCN advisory comm (Read More)
Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy:
Too bad that feeling guilty isn’t enough to reduce carbon emissions. But we’re excited that California passed efficiency standards to cut television electricity use in half by 2013. And how about the recovery of a rare giraff (Read More)
TreeHugger:
The European Green Lizard, Lacerta viridis, shows off a blue head while catching some rays. Lizards and other so-called "cold-blooded" animals have complex biochemistry: sometimes they have 4 to 10 different enzyme systems wh (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
HighlandsScotland's traditional iconic birds and animals have included salmon, red grouse and red deer, but there is another that has come on to the scene: the red squirrel. The Highlands may well be one of the last main stro (Read More)