Tag: Biodiversity - Page 2
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NASA Hints at Secret Data: Did Curiousity Find Signs of Life on Mars?
Curiousity's chief scientist says, "This data is gonna be one for the history books," but wants to double-check before saying what NASA found.
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Artist Paints With Beer to Save Animals
Depending on your point of view, this artist's work is either an innovative new use for beer, or the waste of a good beverage. But at least it's for a good cause.
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Cornell Mini-Grants Available for Bird Projects, Events
Want to help educate people about urban birds? Cornell Lab of Ornithology has $200-$500 grants available.
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Artists Takes Trash to New Heights as Habitat for Urban Birds
A Danish street artists upcyles trash into colorful tiny birdhouses for urban feathered friends.
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Pssst! Humans Could Save Endangered Species for a Fraction of Soft Drink Costs
Research published in Science magazine indicates funding for biodiversity commitments must increase.
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Ocean Expedition Uncovers a Million New Species
After centuries of scientific study across the Earth's numerous vast and varied ecosystems, it might seem that there would be little left to discover in terms of biological diversity. Think again.
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A Vertical Garden That Actually Lives Up To The Term
This Barcelona garden is about as simple as it comes. Only it's 70 feet high.
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A Mountain of Heirloom Pumpkins: You'll Never See This in Your Grocery Store
A gathering of heirloom enthusiasts dispels the myth of "consumer choice" in our current food system, and offers a vision of something tastier.
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In Japan, a Treehouse Goes to the Birds--and One Lucky Bird Watcher
This mixed-use treehouse gives Japanese bird-lovers a close-up view into the lives of feathered fowl.
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Free Rain Garden Installation for Los Angeles Residents
Los Angeles County is curbing urban runoff by installing free rain gardens for homeowners.
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Adding Wildlife 'Passengers' to the Urban Commute
A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment -- using the same infrastructure human city-dwellers rely on to get from place to place.
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Shade-Grown Coffee Isn't Just for the Birds
New study shows that agroforestry may have economic as well as environmental benefits.
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Extinction Rates Soar in Brazil's Fragmented Forests
Biologists call the level of species loss in the Atlantic Forest "staggering".
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Scientists Invoke Noah's Ark in Call to Avert Biodiversity Collapse
The modern equivalent of Noah's Ark sinking: what if protections fail at the planet's most important nature reserves?
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Summer-Blooming Bulbs You Should Plant in Your Garden
Get bold, beautiful, and exotic summer blooms in your garden with these garden bulbs.
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Bird Charity to Build Gigantic Wind Turbine
If some opponents of wind power are to be believed, turbines are mass killers of birdlife. Someone should inform the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
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We're Utterly Failing Our Environmental Pledges Made 20 Years Ago in Rio, Scientists Report
A new report card in Nature gives world leaders failing grades for the assignments given to three treaties established at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio.
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Is Pollution Turning Carnivorous Plants Into Vegetarians?
Researchers have found that carnivorous plants in polluted areas aren't trapping as many insects.
