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London, May 24 (IANS) Street lighting is changing insect ecosystems in towns and cities, The Independent reported. Groups of invertebrates living near artificial lights include more predators and scavengers, a study has found. The effect could be impacting ...
May 24, 2012 at 19:47 | Source: MSN India
TAMPA, Fla. (May 16, 2012) – Chlorothalonil, one of the world's most common fungicides used pervasively on food crops and golf courses, was lethal to a wide variety of freshwater organisms in a new study, University of South Florida researchers said ...
May 16, 2012 at 14:48 | Source: EurekAlert
Research by USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists shows that the impacts of recent outbreaks of southern pine beetle further degraded shortleaf pine-hardwood forest ecosystems in the southern Appalachian region.
May 16, 2012 at 23:59 | Source: phys.org
Nairobi — A four-year project aimed at addressing the lack of knowledge about the impacts of climate change on food security, livelihoods and economic prosperity in mountain ecosystems has been launched in East Africa. The project, Climate Change Impacts ...
May 15, 2012 at 07:19 | Source: AllAfrica.com
May 25, 2012 (FIND, Inc. via COMTEX) -- SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a public comment period for the draft document titled, "An Assessment of Potential Mining Impacts on Salmon Ecosystems of Bristol Bay ...
May 25, 2012 at 19:17 | Source: TMCnet
London, May 21 : Seagrass ecosystems hold as much carbon per hectare as the world's forests and they are now among its most threatened systems, a new study has claimed. In the past century, 29 percent of seagrass was destroyed globally, mostly by water ...
May 21, 2012 at 06:14 | Source: New Kerala
CHICAGO, May 24 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists studying life around deep-sea vents say some species have hitchhiked on their submersibles to new areas and may damage ecosystems. Writing in the journal Conservation Biology, researchers say some hardy ...
May 24, 2012 at 20:30 | Source: United Press International
The earthquake and tsunami that rocked Chile in 2010 unleashed substantial and surprising changes on ecosystems there, yielding insights on how these natural disasters can affect life and how sea level rise might affect the world, researchers say.
May 7, 2012 at 19:17 | Source: msnbc.com
American Forests, the nation’s oldest nonprofit citizens’ conservation organization, helps people understand the need to restore forest ecosystems in urban and rural areas through community-based initiatives. The organization introduced ...
May 26, 2012 at 07:48 | Source: Yahoo Finance
Warming climate may mean less rainfall for drought-sensitive regions of the Southern Hemisphere, according to results just published by an international research team. Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Geoscientist Curt Stager of Paul Smith's College in Paul ...
May 19, 2012 at 13:40 | Source: Kansas City infoZine