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Nature has published the first ever study that tracked fish across the world. After following fish on their migrations for ten years, two huge areas of the northern Pacific have been discovered to be the ocean equivalents of pristine and massively-abundant wilderness. The Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) data set, built from over a quarter [...]
China’s first major reforestation efforts seem to have worked. The 10-year Sloping Land Conversion Program has turned some 37 million acres back into forest or grasslands, after farming on steep slopes in the Yangtze and Yellow River basins led to severe erosion and its knock-on effects. Or says the final research assessment — one has [...]
Craig Venter’s epic voyages on the earth’s oceans have produced startling discoveries. Now it appears that he’s discovered not just a new species but something much rarer — a new phylum — or a totally new kind of creature. The report in the academic journal Public Library of Science One announced the discovery of DNA [...]
The South American nation of Ecuador is making very serious attempts to re-green its Galapagos Islands territories. The islands are the famous site of some of Charles Darwin’s most important discoveries, and attract over 140,000 tourists a year. And that means ten million gallons of diesel get shipping to the islands each year. Now new [...]
clipped from www.guardian.co.uk the country’s remarkable range of larger moths is catalogued in a new atlas made up of 11.3m individual records. Based on records from thousands of 10x10km squares across the country Moths are important indicators of the welfare of wildlife generally, sensitive to atmospherics and with their caterpillars central to bird diet in [...]
clipped from www.guardian.co.uk Underwater bacteria had devoured nearly all the methane gas from BP’s blown-out well by August, says a study in Science the latest study, published in Science, offers an important new piece of information to help resolve the question of what happened to the underwater plume of oil and gas that stretched for [...]
NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey today announced they have found life that works differently from the rest of Earth life. At Yosemite National Park, Dr. Felisa Wolfe-Simon found a unique life-form that uses arsenic in its basic DNA structure. Arsenic is toxic to everything else on the planet. NASA’s “Team Titan” find this very [...]
Macedonia (formerly in Yugoslavia, Europe), is planting seven million trees in one day in a bid to restore the ancient forests, and to repair the damage done by recent wildfires. This is the sixth tree-planting day — and the largest yet — in a campaign backed by the government, citizens and environmental groups. Since 2008, [...]
An exploration of a submerged mountain has led to the discovery of new forms of life on Earth, living in the deep regions of the earth’s crust. The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program found a new bacteria-based ecosystem, living in the crust’s deepest layer. Many of the bugs found had evolved to feed off hydrocarbons like [...]
A shark sanctuary has been declared around the Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia. The new Daram sanctuary covers 17,760 square miles in of one of the world’s richest marine biodiverse region, the Coral Triangle. Banned are fishing for sharks, dugongs, marine turtles, mobulas, and manta rays. Trawling and ‘reef bombing’ for the aquarium trade is [...]
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