(Earth) -- A new type of environmental news service launches this week, as "
Earth's Newsdesk" will report upon ecological science, policy and advocacy from the Earth's perspective.
Ecological Internet will begin regularly providing biocentric media releases and feature articles for publication elsewhere. This continues a long list of firsts from EI and its predecessors, including the web's first blog and environmental search engine. The free service will build upon Ecological...
Ecological Internet welcomes Australia’s expression of concern about forests and climate change, demonstrated by yesterday's
release of an initial US$2 million in aid [
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forest carbon [search] are only being applied overseas, are based upon flawed science, and thus will be unlikely to make much difference. An important new study from Australian National...
TAKE ACTION! The Western Amazon -- home to some of the most biodiverse and intact rainforest left on Earth, which are critical for driving regional and global ecosystems and climatic patterns necessary for life -- may soon be decimated by oil rigs and pipelines.
According to a new study in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, over 180 oil and gas "blocks" – areas zoned for exploration and development – now...
We learned today that
birds in France are unable to migrate [
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Arctic tundra is being invaded by trees [
ark]. Humans too are animals with specific heat, moisture and food requirements. Where will we run as we lose our habitat? Climate change -- and the host of attendant ecological crises associated with too many humans consuming too many resources at the expense of...