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Science News
July 7, 2007 |
Science Safari: Sawfish Central A site to view the Sawfish, a member of the shark family, and link to research aimed at rescuing populations of its seven beleaguered species worldwide.   |
Science News
August 4, 2007 |
Science Safari: Biota Behaving Badly The U.S. Department of Agriculture offers one site for news and impacts of invasive species. |
Reason
January 2009
Ronald Bailey |
Friendly Invasion End species discrimination -- newly introduced species may be able to get along with their native brethren better than previously believed. |
Reason
November 2001
Sara Rimensnyder |
Cryptic Biodiversity By examining DNA, scientists have discovered new species of birds, reptiles, whales, and plants. Will this put more pressure on the Endangered Species Act? |
Reason
July 2005
Kerry Howley |
Save the Frankenfish! Is the snakehead endangered? Environmental groups are using the Endangered Species Act to lock up land from development rather than save threatened species, and they want some reform from Washington. |
Science News
February 4, 2006 |
Cyber Salmon To learn about the people of Alaska, several salmon species, and salmon habitat, try this Web site from the Alaska Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. |
Fast Company
July 2009
Dan Macsai |
Big Bangs How our diverse species of consumer electronics -- books, music, computers, and phones -- have evolved. Will a single device ever unite them all? |
Chemistry World
July 18, 2012
Laura Howes |
BPA causes freaky fish flirting Fish exposed to the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A become much less choosy when courting a mate, says new research published in Evolutionary Applications. |
Smithsonian
September 2005
Daniel Glick |
Back From The Brink Not every endangered species is doomed. Thanks to tough U.S. environmental laws, dedicated researchers, and plenty of money and effort, success stories abound. |
Information Today
June 1, 2007
Paula J. Hane |
Nurturing Biodiversity: The Encyclopedia of Life Leaders from the top academic and scientific organizations have launched an effort to create a Web-based Encyclopedia of Life, a portal that documents all named species of animals and plants on Earth. |
Science News
December 5, 2008
Edward O. Wilson |
Protect Biodiversity Hot Spots And The Rest Will Follow The tragedy unfolding in our ignorance, in our preoccupation with strictly physical environments, is that human action is destroying countless species and even ecosystems before we even know they existed. |
Science News
July 24, 2004
Janet Raloff |
Seeing Red and Finding Fraudulent Fish Marine biology students find most red snapper sold at stores isn't the real McCoy. The findings suggest that true red-snapper stocks might have been so depleted that fleets are now surreptitiously substituting other species for this high-value reef fish. |
Science News
February 17, 2001 |
Skeleton Search Web site where you can compare the bones of various species. |
Science News
May 27, 2006 |
Science Safari: Amphibiaweb Curious about frogs, toads, or salamanders? This Web site provides data on more than 6,000 amphibian species from around the world. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2000
Ronald Bailey |
Bio-Invaders Are we under attack by "non-native" species? Should we care? |
Food Processing
May 2007
Ashman & Beckley |
Product Spotlight: Chips on the fish Gorton's adds potato chip crunch to fish fillets -- and creates a delightful difference. |
Science News
October 28, 2006 |
Science Safari: Encyclopedia of Earth An online source of environmental information. |
The Motley Fool
September 13, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Whole Foods Fishes for Goodwill The organic supermarket offers environmentally conscious consumers food for thought. |
Scientific American
March 2009
David Appell |
Can "Assisted Migration" Save Species from Global Warming? As the world warms up, some species cannot move to cooler climes in time to survive. Camille Parmesan thinks humans should help even if it means creating invasive species |
Outside
March 2010
Elizabeth Hightower |
The Wild File: Most Powerful Species Today's power animals are the ones bringing in dollars or holding up development. |
Salon.com
October 28, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Data-mining life on earth Every blade of grass, every fish and fowl, slug and snail, has a place on the Web. |
Scientific American
July 2007
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
The Promise of the Blue Revolution Aquaculture can maintain living standards while averting the ruin of the oceans. |
Popular Mechanics
February 3, 2010
Cassie Rodenberg |
Top 5 Most Damaging Invasive Species in the U.S. As transportation into the country has become more advanced, more invasive species have come in on boats and planes, thus worsening the problems posed to ecosystems. |
Science News
March 6, 2004
Alexandra Goho |
Fishy Alpha Males Lab experiments suggest that fish genetically modified to grow big fast could outcompete and thus threaten native fish in the wild. |
CIO
May 15, 2006
Jeremy Kirk |
IT Unlocks the Origin of Darwin's Theory The concept of variation - meaning differences within a species necessary for its survival as a whole - was first observed by John Stevens Henslow, who trained Darwin to observe variations between the species. |
Parameters
Spring 2004
Robert J. Pratt |
Invasive Threats to the American Homeland Before 11 September 2001, when American leaders prepared for war they envisioned enemies using bombs, tanks, guns, military force, and other traditional armaments. The attacks on that fateful day forever changed the way the United States and the world would view the nature of war. |
Popular Mechanics
July 1, 2009
Lisa Merolla |
Top 18 Species Named After Famous People Naming species after celebrities is one seriously effective way for scientists to draw attention to taxonomy. |
Information Today
February 22, 2010 |
Gale Announces Enhancements to Grzimek's Animal Life Grzimek's Animal Life, the online resource covering more than 4,000 species of animals, will add new content, navigational tools, and social networking capabilities. |
Science News
March 4, 2006
Janet Raloff |
Caviar Caveats Fishing to obtain sturgeon roe has become so intensive that sturgeon no longer reach ripe old ages or mammoth proportions. Several sturgeon species now face imminent extinction. |
Chemistry World
August 20, 2008 |
Grasslands Emit Greenhouse Gas Chinese researchers have found further evidence that plants emit significant quantities of methane - a potent greenhouse gas. But the latest findings also show that methane emissions depend not just on the species of plant, but the conditions in which they are growing. |
Geotimes
June 2006
Megan Sever |
Found: One of Many Missing Human Links Researchers working in Ethiopia recently uncovered bones and teeth from one of many previously missing links in the hominid family tree. The newly found remains, researchers say, connect two well-known hominid species that are separated by 1 million years. |
Wired
May 19, 2008
Brian Dustrud |
8 Best: Non-Wikipedia Pedias These websites provide more in depth look on topics ranging from the TV show Lost to Pedialyte for kids. |
