je.st
news
Tag: wildlife
UK wildlife is 'increasingly at risk' from climate change
2015-11-16 06:05:33| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Climate change is already affecting UK nature from seabirds to plants, with wildlife "increasingly at risk" as temperatures rise, conservationists have warned. A report from the RSPB shows the impact that warming temperatures in Europe are having on birds, bees, butterflies and plants and the risks of future impacts from more extreme storms, loss of habitat and disruption between predators and prey. The study shows that extreme weather such as heavy rainstorms, which is already becoming more...
Tags: change
risk
increasingly
climate
Indonesia's forest fires take toll on wildlife, big and small
2015-11-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A disoriented, pregnant orangutan, her treetop home in Indonesian Borneo reduced to charred wood, is rushed to a rehabilitation center by conservationists, who dodged walls of fire and toxic smoke. Veterinarians care for 16 abandoned baby orangutans already living at the center. The babies had developed respiratory infections because of haze from the fire, delaying the conservationists continuing attempts to teach them how to live on their own in the wild. Long-awaited heavy rains this week in...
In dryland African regions, limiting wildlife water access reduce water quality
2015-10-14 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Water-dependent wildlife populations in sensitive African dryland regions need continued access to limited surface water resources -- even as human development increases in these areas -- because restricting access and concentrating wildlife populations along riparian regions can impact water quality and, potentially, human health, according to Virginia Tech research published this week in the journal PLOS ONE. While concentrated wildlife can be a boon for ecotourism operations, there can be substantial...
Tags: access
quality
water
reduce
Wildlife thriving around Chernobyl nuclear plant despite radiation
2015-10-05 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Wildlife is abundant around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, despite the presence of radiation released by the worlds most catastrophic nuclear explosion nearly three decades ago, researchers have found. The number of elk, deer and wild boar within the Belarusian half of the Chernobyl exclusion zone today are around the same as those in four nearby uncontaminated nature reserves. Wolves, which are commonly hunted in the region because of their impact on livestock, were seven times...
Tags: plant
nuclear
radiation
wildlife
International research team finds thriving wildlife populations in Chernobyl
2015-10-05 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Aiken, S.C. - A team of international researchers, including James Beasley, assistant professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and the Warnell School Forestry and Natural Resources, has discovered abundant populations of wildlife at Chernobyl, the site of the 1986 nuclear accident that released radioactive particles into the environment and forced a massive evacuation of the human population. In the current issue of the journ…
Tags: international
research
team
finds
Sites : [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] next »