Move over Biosphere 2, South Korea shows off plans for sprawling eco-domes The center's creator, the National Ecological Institute of South Korea, hopes to do this by breaking ground on a big, flashy project that could undoubtedly ...

The Texas Tribune Because Texas is almost entirely privately owned, these critical ecological services occur on private property and are thus subject to being permanently impaired by relentless fragmentation and adverse development taking place across the state. Ironically, rural landowners in Texas are generally doing a better job of protecting our watersheds, but the pressures of property and inheritance taxes and encroaching urban development, among other factors, are pushing them off the land faster here than anyplace else. Though the legislature has been loathe to grant counties the authority to preserve critical watersheds in rapidly urbanizing areas such as the Texas Hill Country, local governm...

	The White House needs to step in to stop the Asian carp's advance on the Great Lakes Otherwise, an ecological disaster for the Great Lakes will be inevitable. The bighead and silver carp have worked their way up the Mississippi and Illinois ... MaltaToday Three of the four proposals for a new road at Ghadira, in Mellieha, will have a massive impact on agricultural land and garigue, a project development statement presented by the Transport Authority to MEPA reveals. The proposals are for the Trans-European Network road, which envisage the upgrading of the present Ghadira road or a new alternative route around the area. The replacement of the present road is one of four different routes originally proposed by transport minister Austin Gatt in 2008. But the controversial plan was put on the backburner last October, when the government decided that EU funds earmarked for the project were to be redirected towards... A Key to Unraveling How Nature Works by Carl Zimmer By mapping the connections between species, they are discovering some of the rules by which all ecological networks are organized, and how these rules help foster biodiversity. They’re also studying how biological invasions, overfishing, and other threats are reorganizing these networks, and possibly putting them at risk of collapse. By discovering early warning signs of networks in trouble, scientists hope to be able to predict these collapses and prevent them from occurring. Species are joined in an ecological network if they have some kind of relationship. One species may be a predator, and the other its prey. One species may be a tree, and the other a bird that spreads its... Gone but not forgotten Hence the now widely accepted argument that humans come with original ecological sin built in. As a large and recent extinction event this topic would be worth studying even if it did not have implications for how people think about themselves. When extinction is becoming commonplace, a better understanding of its mechanisms is prudent. Research in this area has recently been throwing up some surprising and intriguing complexities. In North America, new evidence suggests that both mammoths and horses co-existed with humans a lot longer than had previously been expected, suggesting the extinctions could not have been simple wham-bam-yummy-leg-of-lamb affairs. Evidence from bones an... Cycling for clean environment Planting a sapling at the campus, Samaddar said that there is urgent need of propagating the importance of green planet and ecological balance. Unfortunately with increasing role of automated machines and self-driven equipment in daily life, the danger of ecological imbalance is now looming large on mankind. "In a bid to give message to society, we have initiated a move to cut the use of such equipment in our daily routine," Samaddar said. Similarly, a `Green Ganga rally', with the support of World Wild Life Fund (WWF) would be organised from MNNIT campus to Shivpuri Ghat. The rally would be converted into a `Shram Daan' programme to clean the ghat. The MNNIT... Parks Canada tries to reassure people about plans to attract more visitors "There is a select group of individuals who have the perspective that the mandate of Parks Canada is simply ecological integrity, which is incorrect. Our job at Parks Canada is to protect our national parks for Canadians, not from Canadians."Parks Canada's concerns are being driven by statistics that show an ongoing drop in the number of people using the parks. Last year alone there was an overall nine per cent decrease in visits - a drop of 1.2 million person visits from the previous year.Analysts say the trend can be attributed partly to the economic downturn and partly to demographic changes. About eight out of 10 Canadians now live in urban areas and about 20 per cent of th...