News tagged with wilderness areas
Obama signs wide-ranging conservation law
Mar 30, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama signed legislation on Monday expanding and protecting US public parks and wilderness areas from oil and gas development, billed as the largest US conservation measure in more than 15 ...
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Destruction spreads 'like a disease'
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Security plan imperils endangered species
Feb 27, 2006 |
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An area just north of Tijuana and south of San Diego -- the last refuge for many endangered species -- is being threatened by a fence.
Roads bring death and fear to forest elephants
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Oct 28, 2008 |
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Why did the elephant cross the road? It didn't according to a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Save the Elephants that says endangered forest elephants are avoiding roadways at all costs. The authors ...
Huge public lands bill gets final congressional approval
Mar 26, 2009 |
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The House of Representatives on Wednesday gave long-awaited final approval to a massive public lands package designed to protect wilderness, restore rivers and expand national parks.
A mounain lion mystery -- what killed P8?
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Nov 27, 2006 |
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Biologists say the killer of a young male mountain lion in California's Santa Monica Mountains may be a previously unknown male cat.
Scientists find 56 new species in Papua New Guinea
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Jumping spiders, a tiny chirping frog and an elegant striped gecko are among 56 species believed new to science discovered during a Conservation International (CI) Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) expedition ...
Wasteland and wilderness
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard science historian and physicist Peter Galison is using part of his Radcliffe year to explore the intersections of forbidden wilderness and nuclear wasteland.
Big cats, wild pigs and short-eared dogs -- oh, my!
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released photos today from the first large-scale census of jaguars in the Amazon region of Ecuador—one of the most biologically rich regions on the planet.
Faced with global warming, can wilderness remain natural?
Apr 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For those who think of nature as a wild, unspoiled Eden that preserves the natural flora and fauna free from human interference, global warming has a nasty surprise in store, according to ...
Current level of oyster farming unlikely to have substantial impact on Drakes Estero ecosystem
May 05, 2009 |
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A new report from the National Research Council finds a lack of strong scientific evidence that the present level of oyster farming operations by Drakes Bay Oyster Co. (DBOC) has major adverse effects on the ecosystem of ...
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