Archive for the ‘Animals’ Category

Raising (Whooping) Crane - Thursday, October 15th, 2009

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.

Coral reefs: Massive threats to survival around the globe - Thursday, July 10th, 2008

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.

Fishing: The power of profit - Thursday, December 6th, 2007

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?

Revealed: Humans not Such Deadly Hunters! - Thursday, May 11th, 2006

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.

Salmon au Flame Retardant - Thursday, August 19th, 2004

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

Endangered Species Cards - Thursday, May 20th, 2004

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

Wilderness Debate - Friday, August 1st, 2003

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.

Zoonotic Disease — Bugs Jump to People - Thursday, July 3rd, 2003

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

Mouse Evolution: Making the Urban Mouse - Thursday, May 29th, 2003

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

Snails Declining in New York - Thursday, May 1st, 2003

Rock climbing may be harming snail populations along the Niagara Escarpment.

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