Ecosystems

Stinging Tentacles Offer Hint of Oceans’ Decline

Originally Published by NY Times

While jellyfish invasions are a nuisance to tourists and a hardship to fishermen, for scientists they are a source of more profound alarm, a signal of the declining health of the world’s oceans.

 

Posted on August 5th, 2008
Ecosystems, Water

Energy Boom in West Threatens Indian Artifacts

Originally Published by NY Times

With the urgent push for more energy in America, there are new worries that history and prehistory - much of it still unexplored or unknown - could be lost.

Posted on August 3rd, 2008
Ecosystems, Energy

California Fires Kill Two, Yosemite National Park At Risk

Originally Published by Environment News Service

Northern California wildfires continue to burn, killing two firefighters and threatening to burn Yosemite National Park

Posted on July 30th, 2008
Disasters, Ecosystems

Wetlands Could Unleash “Carbon Bomb”

Originally Published by Truthout

Ecologists are warning that, if destroyed, the world’s wetlands could release a catastrophic “carbon bomb.”

Posted on July 23rd, 2008
Climate, Ecosystems

U.S. and Canada Strengthen Great Lakes Cooperation

Originally Published by Environment News Service

The Ontario Government and municipal officials from around the Great Lakes on both sides of the border have begun a new era of working together to protect and conserve the Great Lakes Basin ecosystem.

Posted on July 23rd, 2008
Ecosystems, Politics, Water

U.S. President Bush Calls For Oil Drilling In Offshore Waters

Originally Published by China Views

Citing the hurting American economy, President Bush has called on Congress to okay oil drilling in offshore waters and in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge.

Posted on July 16th, 2008
Economy, Ecosystems, Energy, Water

UNESCO Natural World Heritage Sites Face More Threats

Originally Published by Environment News Service

At the World Heritage Committee’s annual meeting in Quebec City it will consider requests made by governments for inscription of 13 new natural sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

Posted on July 5th, 2008
Ecosystems, Politics

Midwest Flooding May Worsen Dead Zone

Originally Published by Houma Today

Scientists have predicted that this year’s dead zone - an area of the Gulf of Mexico that lacks enough oxygen to support marine life - will be the largest ever in part because of the recent floods in the region.

Posted on July 3rd, 2008
Agriculture, Disasters, Ecosystems, Water

Sugar for Biofuel to Displace Kenya’s Tana Delta Wildlife

Originally Published by Environment News Service

Kenya’s Mumias Sugar Company has gotten the okay to cover Kenya’s Tana River Delta - inhabited by 350 species of birds, lions, elephants, rare sharks and reptiles - with sugar cane fields for biofuels.

Posted on July 2nd, 2008
Agriculture, Ecosystems, Energy

Images Reveal “Rapid Forest Loss”

Originally Published by Earth News

Using high-resolution satellite images, scientists have found that commercial logging and burning threaten to do away with more than half Papua New Guinea’s forest cover by 2021 - despite existing conservation measures.

Posted on June 6th, 2008
Biodiversity, Earth Observation, Ecosystems