conservation

Evaluating ecosystem services

harminka — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:43:14 -0500

Environmental conservation efforts have traditionally focused on protecting individual species or natural resources. Scientists are discovering, however, that preserving the benefits that whole ecosystems provide to people is more economically and environmentally valuable.

Cape Wind’s Inconvenient Economics

donatracy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:40:07 -0600

For years residents of Cape Cod and the Islands have been promised that the Cape Wind project, a 25 square mile (the size of Manhattan Island) array of 130 440' tall wind turbines, would lower their electricity rates. Remember: “The Wind is Free?”

Protesters shadow Japanese whaling ships

seher — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:26:59 -0600

Anti-whaling protesters say they are preventing Japanese whalers from resuming their operations in the Southern Ocean.

Importance of mangrove conservation in tsunami prone regions

harminka — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:15:39 -0500

Agricultural expansion rather than shrimp farming is the major factor responsible for the destruction of tropical mangrove forests in the tsunami-impacted regions of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka, according to a new study published in the Journal of Biogeography.

Understanding new levels of biodiversity

harminka — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:52:12 -0500

The definition of conservation priorities for biodiversity often focuses only on the numbers of vertebrate animals and seed plants in the northern hemisphere or in the tropics.

Prehistoric aesthetics explains snail biogeography puzzle

harminka — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:25:27 -0500

The answer to a mystery that long has puzzled biologists may lie in prehistoric Polynesians' penchant for pretty white shells, a research team headed by University of Michigan mollusk expert Diarmaid Ó Foighil has found.

Why conservation efforts often fail

harminka — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:22:53 -0500

Modern conservation techniques have brought us the resurgence of American bald eagles, sustainable forest harvests and the rescue of prized lobster fisheries. So how can modern conservation strategies also have wrought such failures, from the catastrophic loss of Guatemalan forests to the economy-crippling Klamath River salmon kill in 2006".

Successful conservation stories from across globe

harminka — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:05:18 -0500

A trio of new studies published in Science this week provides examples of successful conservation efforts on three continents.

Conservation Is More Effective Than Wind Energy

windwatch — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:41:40 -0500

Pointing to the very small contribution of wind, National Wind Watch calls for conservation instead of industrialization of rural and wild landscapes

'Save the Whale' Campaign Takes Flight Over America

Anastvatz — Sat, 12 May 2007 10:44:44 -0500

This month will be no ordinary month for 12-year-old Henry Ramage of Cape Cod, MA.

Linguistics expert to speak on language extinction

harminka — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:02:53 -0600