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Housing growth near national parks may limit conservation value

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The growth of housing near national parks, national forests and wilderness areas within the United States may limit the conservation value that these protected areas were designed to create in the first place, a new study ...





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Limestone leaf warbler: New bird species discovered

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A diminutive, colorful bird living in the rocky forests of Laos and Vietnam has been discovered by a team of scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, Lao PDR Department of Forestry, Swedish University ...


Zoning the ocean may help endangered whales to recover

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists in Scotland, Canada and the US have proposed a new method to identify priority areas for whale conservation. The team's findings, published in Animal Conservation, suggest that even small protected areas, identi ...


Destruction spreads 'like a disease'

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- People have cleared more than a quarter of the world’s forests and half of its grasslands, according to a paper published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society by researchers from The University of Que ...


New Switchgrass Germplasm Collected in Florida

New Switchgrass Germplasm Collected in Florida

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators have collected 46 new populations of switchgrass in Florida, adding valuable new accessions to the germplasm collection of this ...


Experiment to test killing 1 owl to help another

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(AP) -- Scientists want to determine if killing the aggressive barred owl that has invaded old growth forests of the Northwest would help the protected spotted owl.


World's rarest gorilla ready for its close-up

World's rarest gorilla ready for its close-up (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The world's rarest -- and most camera shy -- great ape has finally been captured on professional video on a forested mountain in Cameroon, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society and Germany's NDR Naturfilm.


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In Taiwan, bird catchers turn bird watchers

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When Yeh You-chin was a boy half a century ago, he ate migratory birds with relish, but now he is at the forefront of efforts to preserve the feathered visitors to his south Taiwan home.


Tropical forests affected by habitat fragmentation store less biomass and carbon dioxide

Tropical forests affected by habitat fragmentation store less biomass and carbon dioxide

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Deforestation in tropical rain forests could have an even greater impact on climate change than has previously been thought. The combined biomass of a large number of small forest fragments left over after ...


Sucker-footed bats don't use suction after all

Sucker-footed bats don't use suction after all (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

There are approximately 1,200 species of bats worldwide. Of that total, only six are known to roost with their heads pointed upward. Investigators did not know why, because they knew next to nothing about ...


Living buildings could mop up carbon dioxide

Living buildings could mop up carbon dioxide

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Architecture could help us tackle climate change, if we start to design our buildings with 'living' materials, according to Dr Rachel Armstrong, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.



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