Archive for the ‘Animals’ Category

  • Thanksgiving: What's what with wild turkeys?
    Thanksgiving: What’s what with wild turkeys?

    Turkeys got help for 75 years from conservation agencies. Coyotes spread across half the country all on their own. Why have these animals succeeded? How have they changed the environment?


    Thursday, November 26th, 2009
  • Raising (Whooping) Crane
    Raising (Whooping) Crane

    Ultralight aircraft are guiding crane chicks toward Florida wintering grounds. Dangers remain, but it’s a step ahead for Americas’ largest flying bird, once reduced to 21 animals.


    Thursday, October 15th, 2009
  • Coral reefs: Massive threats to survival around the globe

    Coral reefs are the ocean’s biodiversity hotspots, but a new study finds that one-third of reef-building corals are under some threat of extinction.


    Thursday, July 10th, 2008
  • Fishing: The power of profit

    Study shows the wisdom of allowing fish stocks to recover. Production is higher, but costs are lower. What would it take to bring economic and environmental sanity to the fishing industry?


    Thursday, December 6th, 2007
  • Revealed: Humans not Such Deadly Hunters!

    Just after humans reached the Western Hemisphere, many large mammals went extinct. Some scientists have blamed hyper-effective human hunting. But a new study fingers changes in climate and environment.


    Thursday, May 11th, 2006
  • Salmon au Flame Retardant

    Feeling burned? Farmed salmon have higher levels of a brominated flame retardant than wild salmon.


    Thursday, August 19th, 2004
  • Endangered Species Cards
    Endangered Species Cards

    Endangered species profiles: Mexican wolf, Houston Toad, Sumatran Rhino, Mountain Gorilla, Mountain mist frog, red-crowned cranes, Delhi Sands flower-loving fly, beluga sturgeon, Higgins’ eye pearly mussel, West Indian manatee, piping plover, Higgins’ eye pearly mussel


    Thursday, May 20th, 2004
  • Wilderness Debate

    In a wilderness, roads can interrupt migration corridors; kill wildlife through vehicle impacts, block movement of surface water; compact soil, harming burrowing animals and changing groundwater flow; cause air pollution and traffic noise; and allow invasive species to enter.


    Friday, August 1st, 2003
  • Zoonotic Disease — Bugs Jump to People

    Monkeypox, AIDS, SARS: Are more diseases jumping from animals to people, or is it just our imagination?


    Thursday, July 3rd, 2003
  • Mouse Evolution: Making the Urban Mouse

    A new study reveals rapid evolution of white-footed mice in Chicago, in just 150 years.


    Thursday, May 29th, 2003


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