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Researcher Finds Boom and Bust Cycles in Ecology, Plants and Animal Populations

The natural world behaves a lot like the stock market, with periods of relative stability interspersed with dramatic swings in population size and competition between individuals and species

3 Nov 2008

African Nations Can Turn Resource Demand Driving Deforestation into Successful Sustainability

African nations could turn the demand for their natural resources currently driving deforestation and other destruction into a force for higher returns from sustainable development, WWF has said

2 Nov 2008

Living Fossil Tree Shows Scientists How Rain Forests Respond to Climate Change

A "living fossil" tree species is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the future

2 Nov 2008

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Will Need Long Term Strategy

Carbon dioxide will continue to rise even if current national and international targets for reducing emissions are met, scientists warn

30 Oct 2008

Wild Caught Fish Being Wasted as Food for Pigs and Chickens

An alarming new study to be published in November in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources finds that one-third of the world’s marine fish catches are ground up and fed to farm-raised fish, pigs, and poultry, squandering a precious food resource for humans and disregarding the serious overfishing crisis in our oceans

30 Oct 2008

Bacteria and Microbes in Soil Shown to Pump Carbon into the Atmosphere

Current models of global climate change predict warmer temperatures will increase the rate that bacteria and other microbes decompose soil organic matter, a scenario that pumps even more heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere

28 Oct 2008

Global Warming Causes Devastating Effect on Coral and Fish

Research work reported on recently by an international research team1, including an IRD scientist, brought out evidence of the impact on the fish communities of a mass bleaching event resulting from the 1997-1998 El Niño climatic episode

28 Oct 2008

Roads Mean Death to Endangered Forest Elephants

A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Save the Elephants that says endangered forest elephants are avoiding roadways at all costs

28 Oct 2008

Industrial Environmental Pollution Influence on Childhood Health

Children are exposed to a wide range of environmental threats that can affect their health and development early in life, throughout their youth and into adulthood

27 Oct 2008