Tag: Preservation - Page 7
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High-Pitched Boat Alarm Could be Life-Saving for Endangered Manatees
It's well known that boats are an affliction for manatees. Practically all of the endangered sea cows bear scars from boat propellers, which are notorious for being a number one killer of manatees. So why don't they
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How Wild is North America? Infographic Lays It Out (Video)
Just how much wilderness is left on the North American continent? It doesn't seem like much as you drive across the US and see almost all urban or suburban developments, or farmland, mining or other
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Say Something! Ocean Voices Project Collects Your Experiences, Impressions Of Our Seas
What would the world be like without oceans? What does it feel like to be in the ocean? How does the ocean affect your life on a daily basis? These are some of the prompts given to participants in an extraordinary new
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Avoid "Generation Zero" - Build an Ocean Recovery Alliance
The state of our ocean today is a perfect example of tragedy of the commons. We all use and take from the sea, but the majority of it is not "owned" or governed
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What We Don't Know About the Ocean Can Kill Us
'The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely,
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Today Is A Starting Point - Thoughts on World Oceans Day
It's very exciting to have a world ocean day, and when you think about our planet being covered in 72% of water, one would think that rather than calling it Planet Earth we would call it Planet Ocean. Today, the 8th of June is a
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Save the Oceans, Save Ourselves! Sylvia Earle's Top 3 Actions to Take on World Oceans Day
Since I began exploring the ocean as a marine scientist fifty years ago, more has been learned about the ocean than during all preceding
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Paper Industry Eyes Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus to Conserve Forests
In the US, eucalyptus trees already have a big strike against them in that they're non-native and somewhat invasive. Brought here from Australia as drought-resistant wind-breaks for farms and
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Can Audubon's "Frozen Zoo" Save Endangered Species?
With the recent declaration of the rusty grebe extinction, due to a non-native carnivorous snakehead murrel being introduced to its habitat, Lake Alaotra in Madagascar, as
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Transplanting Coral As a Cheap, Easy Way to Restore Reefs?
Could restoring damaged reefs be as easy as super gluing corals to new shelves and ledges? Perhaps so, according to research done by Dr. Graham Forrester from the University of Rhode Island, and a team of scientists,
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TED Talk: Ocean Photographer Brian Skerry Reveals Amazing Images (Video)
TED's Mission Blue Voyage to the Galapagos put some of the best scientists and advocates of the oceans in one place to discuss what's happening to our seas - the good and the bad. But a picture is worth a thousand words, as they
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11 Potentially World-changing Projects Tackling Climate Change (Slideshow)
In its new short-film documentary series Global Ideas, Germany-based news broadcaster Deutsche Welle draws attention to smart sustainability projects all over the world: island conservation in Micronesia, reforestation in
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11 Potentially World-changing Projects Tackling Climate Change
Around the world, visionaries have launched potentially world-changing projects to help combat climate change. Germany-based news broadcaster Deutsche Welle shines the spotlight on these innovative climate and sustainability endeavors -- from conserving b
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North Korea Logging in Protected Forest Discovered With Google, NASA Data
Busted! You just can't get away with anything these days, thanks to watchful eyes that utilize Google Earth. After looking at data from both Google and NASA satellite data, a student from Purdue University found
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They're Worth Big Bucks, So Why Are Marine Preserves So Rare?
Marine protected areas are proven to work for rehabilitating a habitat, and bringing a livelihood back to the people living near that area. So why is only about 1% of the ocean protected as a marine reserve? Enric
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World's Oldest Beehive Discovered in Scottish Chapel
We have read a lot about the demise of the bee colonies but recently the world's oldest beehive has been found. Located in the medieval Scottish Rosslyn Chapel, which dates back to 1446, two ancient hives have been found,
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Police Set Up Patrol for Britain's Rarest Wildflower, a 100-Year-Old Orchid
It might look like just another bunch of plants right now, but Britain's rarest wildflower, a yellow and
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Everything you Never Wanted to Know About Our Oceans - Hint: We're Screwed. (Video)
Jeremy' Jackson's nickname is "Dr. Doom," and for good reason. In a talk given on TED's Mission Blue Voyage, he delivers a bracing look at the state of the ocean today, from devastated fisheries to fertilizer-spurred algal
