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.

Lights on fishing nets save turtles and dolphins

LED lights along the top of floating gillnets cut accidental “bycatch” of sea turtles by more than 70%, and that of small cetaceans (including dolphins and…

For some corals, meals can come with a side of microplastics

Synthetic clothing, containers, bottles, plastic bags and cosmetics all degrade and release microplastics into the environment. Corals and other marine…

McMaster researcher warns plastic pollution in Great Lakes growing concern to ecosystem

In an article published this month in the Journal of Waste Resources and Recycling, Gail Krantzberg, a professor in the Booth School of Engineering Practice…

Black carbon found in the Amazon River reveals recent forest burnings

Besides swathes of destroyed vegetation, forest fires in Amazonia leave their imprint on the Amazon River and its tributaries. Incomplete burning of trees…

Typhoons and marine eutrophication are probably the missing source of organic nitrogen in ecosystems

In recent years, with the reduction of anthropogenic inorganic nitrogen emissions, interest in organic nitrogen (ON) has increased because it represents a…

Rethinking the science of plastic recycling

We depend on plastics in our daily life — not just for conveniences like plastic bags and bottles, but also for essential applications like food packaging and…

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