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.

Ecologist Stresses Importance of Wetlands, Grasslands in Midwest

Wetlands may be the least understood ecosystem, but their value is immense, according to Distinguished Professor W. Carter Johnson of the South Dakota State…

Agricultural revolution in Africa could increase global carbon emissions

Historically, improvements in agricultural technology have conserved land and decreased carbon emissions at the global level: Gaining better yields in one area…

How does underwater noise affect harbour porpoises?

Researchers from the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research (ITAW) of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation (TiHo) are…

Dietary Recommendations May Be Tied to Increased Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Martin Heller and Gregory Keoleian of U-M's Center for Sustainable Systems looked at the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of about 100…

Near-extinct African amphibians 'invisible' under climate change

Using African amphibians as a case study, the researchers found that more than 90 per cent of the species listed as threatened on The IUCN Red List of…

California blue whales rebound from whaling, first of their kin to do so

This is the only population of blue whales known to have recovered from whaling – blue whales as a species having been hunted nearly to extinction.

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