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While the cat's away: How removing an invasive species devastated a World Heritage island

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created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Removing an invasive species from sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, a World Heritage Site, has caused environmental devastation that will cost more than A$24 million to remedy, ecologists have revealed. Writing in the new issue ...





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Working to conserve endangered 'Playboy' bunnies

Working to conserve endangered 'Playboy' bunnies

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's legacy will live on with a new University of Central Florida study aimed at saving the endangered bunnies named after him.


Proposal to reintroduce Iberian lynx on abandoned agricultural land

Proposal to reintroduce Iberian lynx on abandoned agricultural land

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spanish scientists have developed a model to identify the agricultural areas with the greatest potential for restoring the habitat of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus), which is at risk of extinction. The st ...


Helsinki Urban/Nature Interactive Invites World-Wide Visitors Via Flickr

Helsinki Urban/Nature Interactive Invites World-Wide Visitors Via Flickr

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 14, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- CityWall is a large interactive touch display in central Helsinki Finland. The interactive 3D touch screen display portrays the ever changing landscape of Helsinki as nature and urban life ...


Animals on runways can cause serious problems at small airports

Animals on runways can cause serious problems at small airports

Biology / Ecology

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

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a potentially deadly combination.


Feds review mountain-dwelling pika for threatened-species list

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pikas don't ask much. With brave squeaks, belted out from atop their rock piles, they defend their realm in the talus slopes way up here in the mountains, more than a mile in the sky, far from anyone, anywhere.


French male bears in immediate need of more females

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The population of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in France is now so small that the species might become extinct in the near future. However, there is new hope in the form of new research published October 28 in the open-access, peer-r ...


UK starts study on using human DNA in animals

Biology / Biotechnology

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

(AP) -- British scientists begin a new study on Tuesday to consider how human DNA is used in animal experiments and to determine what the boundaries of such controversial science might be.


Significant regional variations exist regarding proximity to burn centers

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Although nearly 80 percent of the U.S. population lives within 2 hours by ground or helicopter transport to a verified burn center, there is substantial state and regional variation in geographic access to these centers, ...


Study reveals high death rates and short life expectancy among the homeless and marginally housed

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Homeless and marginally housed people have much higher mortality and shorter life expectancy than could be expected on the basis of low income alone, concludes a study from Canada published on bmj.com today.


Conservation of freshwater fish biodiversity: a challenge for the countries of the South

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created Mar 26, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Humans have regularly been introducing exotic species into natural environments in order to provide for their nutritional necessities or meet less indispensable purposes such as horticulture, fishing or hunting. However, ...



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