published March 27, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Wikipedia In a very specific example of how changes in one part of an ecosystem have wide reaching effects, researchers in the UK how changes in the crane fly population, caused by warmer summers, are having a severe impact on the population of birds which depend upon them, the golden plover :...
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published March 20, 2009 and has No Comments
Victims of the Exxon Valdez. Photo: Wikipedia A Toxic Legacy: Don't Forget, We Need to Prevent the Next One Naomi Lubick of Nature has a great piece about the Exxon Valdez oil spill. She looks back at what actually happened on March 24th, 1989, and then looks at the implications: Impact on ecosystems then and now, what was done ...
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Greater Prairie Chicken, photo: Teo via flickr The newly released 2009 State of the Birds report catalogues just how much pressure birds in the United States face. For the first time, data from a wide variety of sources has been pulled together and presented in an easy-to-read format. And the news is not so good: About one-third of US ...
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published March 18, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo: Chernobyl reactor after explosion. Source: Soviet Authorities 23 Years Later... A study published in the Royal Society Biology Letters shows that the nuclear reactor explosion on April 26, 1986, at Chernobyl is still making victims. "Scientists Anders Moller and Timothy Mousseau determined that insect, bird and other animal populations have dramatically diminished there in the two decades following ...
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