Articles tagged with conservation

Lions, gorillas, and wolves, oh my! Two on-the-ground proponents of saving the tropics think a great way to both engage and enlighten the West is to deploy a dollop of satire.

As coastlines are battered by rising seas, staff at North Carolina’s Alligator River Wildlife Refuge look for ways to make an orderly retreat.

We don’t really know if the giant squid is endangered, but this animal still could inspire protection of the world’s invertebrates.

Deep in the driest and hottest part of Israel, a California-born botanist is trying to remake the Negev Desert with productive trees that thrive on abuse.

In the first of a series of stories tracking their progress in real time, three scientists explain the genesis of a global effort to present the health of the world’s oceans with a single number.

People who are environmentally responsible in their everyday lives seem to cast aside their green habits when traveling for leisure, a study notes.

Nonprofit finds that 88 percent of Oregonians surveyed agree that reducing consumption is a good thing.

An ecumenical effort to combine spirituality and sustainability adds solar panels and wind turbines to the pantheon of religious symbols.

Doppler radar helped save the Texas forests where millions of migrating birds rest each spring.

While common sense says more water by an airport means more waterfowl for planes to hit, wetland conservationists point out that not all birds contest the skyways.

A volunteer program to protect nests for the tiny, threatened snowy plover on a popular surfing beach has proven a model, but the birds still can’t fly solo.

Stanford geographer Holly Gibbs discusses the challenge of preserving natural areas while still feeding an increasingly hungry world.

Dr. Lotus Vermeer discusses the unique recovery program that has restored the health of the Island fox in California’s Channel Islands.

In the Year of Forests, researchers look to save them, and have them save us.

Peasants in Mexico’s jungle state of Oaxaca show that conservation need not take a back seat to development.

North America’s grasslands filled an ecological role that goes mostly unfilled in their hugely reduced state.

Ecologist Hugh Possingham argues that conservationists have made a fetish of monitoring ailing species, and what they should be doing isn’t counting but acting.

Our blogger looks back at his voyage through coastal Mexico and sees that the problems, and solutions, there are mirrored throughout the globe.

Those who experience nature through the windshield typically donate less toward conservation than those with no exposure to nature.

A master-planned and ecologically sound tourist mecca meant to learn from Acapulco and Cancun has not nailed the concept yet.

Big projects — one to preserve and one to promote coastal Mexico — bring with them both dreams and nightmares.

Taking a vacation from the Baja sojourn, our Kristian Beadle reflects on how his boyhood idylls led him to want to conserve coastlines.

Forests of trees that live in the salty and submerged tropical coastlines provide a wealth of benefits, although humanity is spending that wealth recklessly.

Mexico’s Sea of Cortez has always had a wealth of whales, but even protected areas can’t stave off other pressures on the leviathans.

Foundering development plans for a yachters’ paradise in remote Baja have created opportunities for conservation groups.

A lush desert — there is such a thing — teaches the value of water management in an almost waterless environment.

A fruitless ascent to collect climate data at an observatory teaches that not all lessons can be viewed through human prisms.

Coal-fueled region uses more energy per capita and pays less for it than the U.S. overall.

Biologists seek to “do no harm,” improve island health, get rid of human-introduced predators and untangle complex relationships that developed on the fly.

National contestants chosen by the EPA vow to slim down their energy “waste lines.”

When it was no longer easy or cheap to burn trees for development, a new economy had to be forged from fossil fuel.

Conservationists find themselves at the back of line in divvying up water from one of the world’s most litigated rivers.

Once written off, the Delta of the Colorado River has found a hardy band of NGOs and local governments willing to sweat to keep it wet.

Economic models can illuminate the monetary value of beaches and mangroves, but if local people aren’t engaged in conservation, market forces — and coastal ecosystems — may be dead in the water.

With 90 percent of its water diverted for agricultural and urban use, scientists and managers have to get creative about how they go about habitat restoration on the Colorado River.

Climate legislation says we can stop global warming, improve our soils and help our farmers all at once. Not so fast.

Higher water bills spark ratepayer revolts but may also dampen Californians’ proclivity to use more wet stuff than necessary.

A new study suggests the popular idea that young people are more environmentally conscious than the rest of us isn’t exactly correct.

The executive director of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine explains that while zoonotic diseases like swine flu are increasingly with us, quick public health reflexes can successfully clamp down on the outbreak. A Miller-McCune.com interview.

University centers harness brainpower and technology to stop wasting energy — conserve, baby, conserve!

Scientists are working to put economic value on the natural world, hoping to create ecosystem-services markets that protect the environment. But are they really just putting out a contract on Mother Nature?

The Cocktail Napkin: A look at some current research that merits a raised eyebrow or a painful grin.

Here’s how government can help curb America’s seemingly endless appetite for “more.”

Michael Reynolds has been building his variety of low-consumption, off-the-grid housing for decades. Now, though, the Earthship is taking off.

Conservation used to be the province of the bold, not the pinched. The Everglades deal is a return to form.

Different constituencies’ visions of Everglades restoration may not look all that alike.

An ambitious plan to restore the Everglades to a pre-development condition may be plain impossible.

Cleaning up a broken compact fluorescent bulb (and the toxic mercury inside) can turn any living room into a hazmat site.