Tag: Ecology - Page 3
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Despite a Helicopter Pad, Greenpeace's New $23 Million Rainbow Warrior Ship is Greener Than Predecessors
A brand new green boat for Greenpeace was launched this week.
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On Martin Luther, Steve Jobs & Ecologizing Capitalism
At a time when the Tea Party, Occupy Movement and climate scientists and environmentalists are voicing impassioned, alarmed and
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Dugongs, Turtles Face Mass Starvation After Storm
Northeastern Australia may have dried out after devastating floods hit the area early this year, but for dugongs and turtles off the Queensland coast, the natural disaster's
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Two Different Approaches to "Wilderness"
"In attributing other-worldly qualities to nature, however, and in seeing them as sacred spaces where
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Steve Jobs Understood Something About Emotions That The Green Movement Too Often Ignores
Going through all the Steve Jobs commentary this morning I came across actor-comedian-proud technophile Stephen Fry's commentary on BBC News. Fry and Jobs have apparently been friends for a while and the whole thing is
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NASA Satellite Photographs Massive Phytoplankton Bloom in Barents Sea
A NASA satellite has sent down an image of a phytoplankton bloom stretching across the Barents Sea, located north of Norway and Russia. The bloom is over 500 miles long and several hundred miles wide. While it is a common occurrence for
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Vital Mangroves On The Edge Of Extinction Thanks to All-You-Can-Eat Shrimp (Book Review)
Mangroves are a special ecosystem. Found all over the world, they thrive in the in-between zones of land and sea, and act as nurseries for a vast variety of animals, grocery stores for humans, a buffer between homes
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Mindfully Looking at The Way of Natural History (Book Review)
The Way of Natural History, edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner and published by Trinity University Press (Texas), recently came across my desk for review. The premise of the compilation is to bring together "scientists, nature writers, poets, and Zen
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Warming World May Release Stored Carbon From Tropical Forest Soils
Both calculating how many carbon emissions are stored in forests and how this changes over time is a complicated business, but we certainly know that they are massive stores of carbon and deforestation is one of the major causes of
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30 Fascinating Facts about the Boreal Forest
The Boreal forest is the world's largest land-based biome. Spreading over continents and covering many countries, the Boreal plays a significant role in the planet's biodiversity and even its climate. Here are 30
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The Fight for Protecting Wolves Heads to San Francisco's Federal Appeals Court
The saga of the gray wolves in the United States is taking a new turn. After being taken off the endangered species list earlier this year in a legislative first for the US, environmental groups have been arguing for the
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Scientists Breed Spermless Mosquitoes In Effort to End Malaria
In an effort to slow the spread of malaria, scientists are trying to go to the source -- not just by stopping mosquitoes, but stopping how mosquitoes reproduce. Scientists have bred a spermless male mosquito
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Offshore Wind Farms Create A New Type Of Marine Habitat - Some Species Benefit, Others Don't
A new study in Environmental Research Letters, looking at the first offshore wind farm in the Netherlands for the past two years, finds little negative impact on the marine ecosystem--some species benefit from the wind farm, some lose out, and some are
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Protected Wildlife Areas Alone Won't Stop Continued Biodiversity Loss - Far Bigger Changes Are Needed
Continuing to simply set aside land and ocean as protected areas for wildlife won't stem the rapid biodiversity losses resulting from increasing human population and natural resource consumption. That's the sobering
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How Supermarkets Are Shaping Brazil's Savannah (Infographic)
We all know about Brazil's rainforests and how rapidly they're disappearing to serve every need from toilet paper to feed for pigs. However, we don't necessarily know much about Brazil's Cerrado Savannah, which is under just
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Why The Colorado River Stopped Flowing
NPR has a great piece on the Colorado River and how we've altered the run of "America's Nile". Including both audio and a slideshow, the news report provides a solid understanding of exactly how endangered the river is from overuse and abuse by humans.
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We All Suffer When Large Animals Removed From Our Environment, Entire Ecosystem Feels It
As Wyoming and the Department of Interior thinking appropriately managing wolves means half of them should be shot on sight, a new study in Science shows just how badly unbalanced ecosystems get when apex
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California Releases Wasps to Control Apple Moth Infestations
California is taking a more natural approach to pest control -- instead of spraying for light brown apple moths which are considered a pest by the USDA, the state is testing out releasing a
