Ecology, The Environment and Conservation

This complex theme deals primarily with interactions between organisms and the environmental factors that impact them, but to a greater extent between individual inanimate environmental factors.

innovations-report offers informative reports and articles on topics such as climate protection, landscape conservation, ecological systems, wildlife and nature parks and ecosystem efficiency and balance.

On-Board School Bus Filtration System Reduces Pollutants by 88 Percent

An on-board air filtration system developed specifically for school buses reduces exposure to vehicular pollutants by up to 88 percent, according to a study by…

Distemper Virus Affects Wild Carnivores of All Stripes

Canine distemper virus strikes wild carnivores of all stripes, including Amur tigers, – also called Siberian tigers – which roam the Russian Far East in…

'Ecosystem services' help assess ocean energy development

“Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by functioning ecosystems to people,” wrote environmental scientist Heather Leslie, the Peggy and Henry D. Sharpe…

Climate-Change Clues From the Turtles of Tropical Wyoming

While the fossil turtle and its kin could move northward with higher temperatures, human pressures and habitat loss could prevent a modern-day migration,…

‘Blue-Green Algae’ Proliferating in Lakes

Their study, published today in the journal Ecology Letters, represents the first continental-scale examination of historical changes in levels of…

Climate-warmed leaves change lake ecosystems, Dartmouth-led study finds

The study is one of the first to rigorously explore climate warming's impact on “ecological subsidies,” or the exchange of nutrients and organisms between…

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