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.

Scientists uncover the key to adaptation limits of ocean dwellers

For the first time biologists studied the relationship between the complexity of life forms and the limits of their adaptation to a warmer climate. While…

Tropical countries' growing wealth may aid conservation

While inadequate funding has hampered international efforts to conserve biodiversity in tropical forests, a new Duke University-led study finds that people in…

Oil palm plantations threaten water quality, Stanford scientists say

If you've gone grocery shopping lately, you've probably bought palm oil.

Water samples teeming with information: Emerging techniques for environmental monitoring

Environmental policy must respond to ever-changing conditions on the ground and in the water, but doing so requires a constant flow of information about the…

Fracking Flowback Could Pollute Groundwater with Heavy Metals

Previous research has shown 10 to 40 percent of the water and chemical solution mixture injected at high pressure into deep rock strata, surges back to the…

New NASA Images Highlight U.S. Air Quality Improvement

After ten years in orbit, the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite has been in orbit sufficiently long to show that people in major U.S….

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