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WWF Releases Greenprint for Presidential Candidates

WWF-US has released a "Greenprint" agenda, a policy roadmap for the next US president to address global threats to environmental, social and political stability in four key areas

16 Oct 2008

Animals Responding to Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss

Climate change is one of the greatest environmental threats facing the planet and is driving biodiversity loss, affecting both individual species and their ecosystems

15 Oct 2008

Diatom Genome Finding Shows How Excess Carbon is Trapped in Oceans

Diatoms, mighty microscopic algae, have profound influence on climate, producing 20 percent of the oxygen we breathe by capturing atmospheric carbon and in so doing, countering the greenhouse effect

15 Oct 2008

Ecotourism Park to be Built in India

Weston Solutions, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary Weston Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd. will manage India’s first LEED Platinum targeted ecotourism project at Hyderabad

13 Oct 2008

Electron Treatment Being Used on Organic Seed to Remove Disease

Researchers develop electron bombardment method to eliminate the need for fungicide treatments for organic seeds

13 Oct 2008

New Methods for Recovering Petroleum May come from Deep Biosphere Research

Researchers are investigating how geochemical transformation from recalcitrant matter to usable organic compounds occurs deep in Earth's crust

9 Oct 2008

Ecosystem Fragmentation can be Reversed by Ecological Restoration

The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) International maintains that even with the tremendous pressures that humans presently exert upon our ecosystems, fragmentation is neither inevitable nor irreversible

8 Oct 2008

Replacing Chemical Pesticides With Biological Alternatives

With increasing consumer pressure on both farmers and supermarkets to minimise the use of chemical pesticides in fruit and vegetables, a new study looks at why there is currently little use of biological alternatives in the UK

7 Oct 2008

Climate Change Report Identifies Deadly Dozen Diseases to Be Worsened by Climate Change

Health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society today released a report that lists 12 pathogens that could spread into new regions as a result of climate change

7 Oct 2008

Ocean Facing Largest Mass Extinction Seen in 65 Million Years

The survival of species critical to the livelihoods of millions - such as those in the "nusery grounds" of the Coral Triangle - is being called into question in the wake of the IUCN's warning this week of a mass global extinction unseen for 65 million years

7 Oct 2008