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RainBank System from American Aquascapes Transforms Backyards Into Ecosystems

American Aquascapes has provided the Triangle and the Triad with custom-designed water features for 11 years. Now, the company is proud to announce its implementation of new RainBank Systems for water landscaping without...

26 Aug 2008

Ecological Society of America Criticizes President Bush's Administration Overhaul of the Endangered Species Act

The Ecological Society of America today criticized the Bush administration's Aug. 15 proposal to reinterpret the Endangered Species Act, which would impose regulatory changes eliminating the requirement for federal projects to undergo independent scientific review

26 Aug 2008

Ill Conceived Conservation Efforts Short Changing Hopes of Sustainable Fisheries

Small scale fisheries produce as much annual catch for human consumption and use less than one-eighth the fuel as their industrial counterparts, but they are dealt a double-whammy by well intentioned eco-labelling initiatives and ill-conceived fuel subsidies

26 Aug 2008

Key to Energy of The Future Lies With Photosynthesis of Cyanobacteria

Amid mounting agreement that future clean, "carbon-neutral", energy will rely on efficient conversion of the sun's light energy into fuels and electric power, attention is focusing on one of the most ancient groups of organism, the cyanobacteria

25 Aug 2008

Sperm Whales Not Affected by Oil and Gas Seismic Work

Noise can be irritating and possibly harmful for everything from mice to humans – and maybe even 60-foot whales in the Gulf of Mexico

21 Aug 2008

Expert Fears That Climate Change Could Lead to War

International security experts believe climate change related damage to global ecosystems and the resulting competition for natural resources may increasingly serve as triggers for wars and other conflicts in the future

21 Aug 2008

New Appliance Elminates The Need for Detergent or Hot Water When Washing Clothes

Living Life Better is offering a new appliance which attaches to a standard washing machine to replace the need for detergent and hot water and is set to change the way laundry is done

21 Aug 2008

Coal Burning in Northern Hemisphere Leaves Potentially Harmful Heavy Metal Legacy

New research, reported this week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that coal burning, primarily in North America and Europe, contaminated the Arctic and potentially affected human health and ecosystems in and around Earth's polar regions.

19 Aug 2008

Wastewater Use Critical to Farmers' Incomes but Raises Health Concerns

As developing countries confront the first global food crisis since the 1970s as well as unprecedented water scarcity, a new 53-city survey conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) indicates that most of those studied (80 percent) are using untreated or partially treated wastewater for agriculture. In over 70 percent of the cities studied, more than half of urban agricultural land is irrigated with wastewater that is either raw or diluted in streams.

17 Aug 2008

Threats to Marine Ecosystems from Climate Change Must be Addressed to Halt Downward Trends

Human activities are cumulatively driving the health of the world's oceans down a rapid spiral, and only prompt and wholesale changes will slow or perhaps ultimately reverse the catastrophic problems they are facing.

14 Aug 2008