by Admin | Aug 30, 2019 | Information
You know how cats and dogs can get parasites like roundworms? Well, their larger kin can, too. And just recently a team of Argentinian scientists from the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research discovered that roundworms go back at least as far as big...
by Admin | May 6, 2019 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
You’ve probably already heard the news: A UN assessment has shown the full price of humans’ impact on biodiversity and nature, and the news is not good. A full one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. The BBC has a particularly good...
by Admin | Apr 4, 2019 | Conservation
New research shows that environmental stressors caused by human activity are harming coastal green turtle populations. Heavy metals in particular are causing problems. The research results, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, were compiled by a...
by Admin | Jan 4, 2019 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Information, Sustainability
2018 was definitely not the best year ever for the environment, or for environmental activists. But, as Earth Island Journal pointed out in its roundup of 2018’s hot stories, there are some glimmers of hope appeared amidst all the bad news. Here are a few items the...
by Admin | Aug 30, 2017 | Climate Change, Conservation
There’s no more iconic a predator-prey relationship than that of bears and salmon. Typically, brown bears on Kodiak Island in Alaska feed on sockeye salmon as they swim upstream to spawn. But things are different these days. Red elderberries, another integral part of...
