…another tragedy on the scale of the Atlantic Cod, though several other endangered fish species are still widely available throughout the U.S. and elsewhere. Examples include shark, red snapper, bluefin…
Australia Fights Back Against Invader Species The nearly one-foot, 10-pound cane toad might strike visitors to Australia as just one more example of the country’s notoriously bizarre fauna. In reality,…
…buildings, lush forests, meadows and wetlands providing habitat for several rare plant and animal species. For a few years, the Ulster County Resourse Recovery Agency (RRA) had hoped to pick…
…the U.S. dates back to 1944; most biologists presume the species didn’t hang on around here much longer than that. And the last confirmed sighting of the species anywhere was…
…species dependent on healthy sagebrush plants for their own survival. If sagebrush steppe landscapes go the way of the dodo thanks to Cheatgrass, so will these species and dozens of…
…to greater climate instability which, in the very least, portends more violent storms and droughts, spread of human diseases, social, economic and political upheavals and mass species extinction. The needed…
Asian carp are still a looming threat to the Great Lakes, even if the fish are no longer generating headlines. Now, Friends of the Earth Canada has joined five U.S….
…that urban industrial sites can hold surprising ecological significance. The Detroit River refuge, for instance, stands at the intersection of two major flyways. Over 300 species of migratory birds come…
