Small Networks of Marin...
photo: Johnny Bahru via flickr. Large marine reserves aren’t working to protect fish or coral–and therefore fishermen’s livelihoods in the long term–and we should collectively shift towards more small reserves with fishing allowed in between. That’s the word from the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health ’s Peter Sale. … Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more here: Small Networks of Marine Reserves Better Than...
Edward Norton Teams Up ...
Actor and humanitarian Edward Norton is partnering with the New York Road Runners to help raise some serious cash for this year’s ING New York City Marathon. You may remember that last year Norton raised $1.2 million in less than eight weeks when he ran the marathon for Maasai Wilderness Conservation . This year, the actor is setting his sites even higher! Norton — the cofounder of Crowdrise — and NYRR CEO Mary Wittenberg plan to get 45,000 marathon runners on...
A Technical Look At Ter...
Photo by sheilaellen Despite their reputation as pests, termites are actually fascinating creatures particularly for their complex social structures. But that isn’t the only thing that hast attracted the attention of scientists lately. It seems that by watching where termites decide to build mounds, secrets to the ecological changes of Africa’s savanna are revealed. Researchers at the Carnegie Instution’s Department of Global Ecology mapped over 40,000 termite...
Scientists Drill into A...
Photo Credit: ECORD/IODP via Live Science In an instance where drilling into the Great Barrier Reef is a good thing, scientists are pulling core samples of ancient coral to unravel how sea level changes have impacted corals in the past, and perhaps help predict what can happen to them in the future as they struggle with relatively rapid shifts in their marine environments. The corals they’re studying lived about 20,000 years ago when the planet was about 9 degrees F cooler than...
Extinct Fox Turns Up Ag...
Photo via Keith Slausen / US Forest Service The Sierra Nevada red fox was thought to be extinct, until three weeks ago anyway. U.S. Forest Service biologists captured photos of the fox with a camera set up on a trail, and took DNA samples of saliva pulled from a bait bag the fox bit into to experts at the University of California, Davis. And yep, we can put one extinct species back on the books, at least for now. … Read the full story on TreeHugger The rest is here: Extinct...
Cute Cubs! National Zoo...
Webcam screenshot via National Zoo August 31st was a special day at the National Zoo — four lion cubs were born! It is the first litter to a five-year-old lioness named Shera. But you don’t have to be a visitor at the zoo to check out the tiny newborns. (In fact, even visitors won’t see the cubs until late Fall when they’re old enough to head out into the yards.) The National Zoo has launched a webcam allowing you to look in on the lioness and her cubs....
Would A Curvy Crosswalk...
We always say that streets are for people, but nobody works very hard to make them comfortable for people rather than cars. After all, cars get curved corners to make it easier to get around but humans, they have to make sharp right angles. Jae Min Lim looks at the problem, and redesigns the crosswalk to reflect how people actually move…. Read the full story on TreeHugger Originally posted here: Would A Curvy Crosswalk Reduce...
Asian Elephants Get a N...
Image Credit: Mehgan Murphy, National Zoo If you’ve been to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. lately, you may have noticed that they’ve been working on the first stage of their “Elephant Trails” project- a bold initiative to build a complex of indoor and outdoor habitats for the zoo’s Asian elephants that will allow the endangered animals to thrive. Phase I, which opened to the public yesterday, includes two new outdoor yards...
The Week in Animal Phot...
Photo via National Geographic We’ve got a new regular slideshow here on TreeHugger: The Week in Animal Photos. Catch a glimpse of what the animal kingdom has been up to this week, from a tiger cub disguised as a stuffed tiger rescued from an international smuggling deal to a newly discovered pea-sized frog perched on a pencil tip. Originally posted here: The Week in Animal Photos: Tiger Cubs in Luggage and More...