21 Dec, 2007 11:41 am
6-14% of birds are likely to go extinct in the 21st century as a result of habitat loss, hunting, pet trade, and introduced animals like cats that kill... 18 Dec, 2007 11:30 am
Scientists have reclassified biomes like deserts and forests into ecosystems that show how humans have altered the Earth. Jorge Ribas (Discovery News)... 22 Nov, 2007 11:01 am
A century-long examination of trends in population, farm income and crop production in the Great Plains reveals stability of farm income and population... 24 Oct, 2007 11:59 am
For many environmentalists, acid rain was the cause c?l?bre of the 1980s, but how far have we come in solving the problem? Recent work shows how continuing... 17 Oct, 2007 10:59 am
Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo travels to the Mata Atlantica, which is as rich in biodiversity as the more famous Amazon and in danger of disappearing under... 8 Oct, 2007 04:30 pm
A persistent challenge in ecology is to explain the high species diversity of tropical forests... 26 Sep, 2007 11:08 am
Biological diversity is being lost at unprecedented rates around the world, both in the number of different species and the genetic variety within a species... 25 Sep, 2007 10:10 am
Recent research in south-east England shows how constraints on the dispersal of threatened and declining snails has been overlooked as a constraint on... 13 Sep, 2007 04:02 pm
IUCN-The World Conservation Union released yesterday its 2007 Red List of Threatened Species. There are now 41,415 species endangered and 16,... 31 Aug, 2007 10:49 am
Until now, we knew very little about geographic and temporal patterns of coral loss in the Indo-Pacific, which contains 75% of the world?... |