- Brazil NGO declines contract to clean up dirty Olympic bay
RIO DE JANEIRO — Rio de Janeiro’s pledge to clean up the blighted waters where the 2016 Olympic sailing events are to be held has…
- Ecology ministry to launch Clean Ukraine program
The Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry plans to launch the Clean Ukraine national program to recycle waste, an advisor to the Ecology and Natural Resources…
- Nature center raising red wolf pups, but they may have no place to go if North Carolina ends a reintroduction program
Two breeding pairs of captive red wolves could have pups in April at Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center in Chattanooga. It’s too early to…
- Trouble In Paradise–Too Much Plastic In Our Oceans
WFDD’s Keri Brown talks with Justin Catanoso about the growing plastic pollution problem in North Carolina’s oceans. Catanoso explains why the problem has become a…
- Bees prefer road verges to farmers’ fields for gathering pollen, say experts
The plight of the bumblebee is a major rural issue, with farmers and conservationists sometimes disagreeing over alleged declines. Philip Bowern reports. The threat to…
- BTN LiveBig: Nebraska ecology professor connects contagions to climate change
When new and potentially catastrophic contagious diseases like West Nile Virus and swine flu periodically emerge, research scientists and medical practitioners alike scramble to figure…
- Antibiotic Effectiveness is Imperiled as Use in Livestock is Expected to Increase
Princeton University-led research found that antibiotic consumption in livestock worldwide could rise by 67 percent between 2010 and 2030, and possibly endanger the effectiveness of…
- Chartering new waters of biofilm ecology and evolution
Biofilms dominate microbial life in most natural, engineered and medical systems, and they have orchestrated key biogeochemical cycles on Earth over billions of years. As…
- Rich nations are laying road to ecological Armageddon
In the last decade, two-thirds of the world’s forest elephants – found only in the rainforests of Equatorial Africa – have been slaughtered by ivory…
- Global effort required to stem illegal fishing problem
Illegal fishing is big business — and fishermen who take advantage of shoddy enforcement or lax regulations in ports around the world make millions…