The report's authors make multiple recommendations to better protect and manage reefs, including through marine protected areas.
Tropical deforestation not only has a large impact on the carbon cycle and climate, but also affects the chemistry of the atmosphere.
Drier conditions projected to result from climate change in the Southwest will likely reduce perennial vegetation cover and result in increased dust storm activity in the future, according to a new study by scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of California, Los Angeles.
With SUNY, the universities will monitor temporal trends in bioaccumulative chemicals in the Great Lakes using top predator fish as biomonitors.
The Rangia clam may take on a new role if studies at Southeastern Louisiana University determine the organism can actually contribute to helping clean oil-polluted waters.
Tina and Jewel, two Asian elephants owned by the circus, are protected by the Endangered Species Act.
The inaugural prize will be presented in May to city, state, private, and educational groups.
The Stony Brook University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution study used the genome sequence of Aureococcus anophagefferens and found that it is genetically predisposed to exploit certain characteristics of human-modified coastal ecosystems.
Crabtree Development will give the town 7.6 acres of the Pingry Hill development.
With the added resources, Biohabitats will help clients reuse, conserve, and manage water while regenerating ecosystems and biodiversity.
When completed in 2015, the $448-million project will feature three major pump stations, removal of 260 miles of roads, and filling in of 42 miles of canals to help restore water flows to the Everglades.
Following more than 50 listening sessions with local communities, the federal government has devised a plan to support community-based conservation and recreation in the "great outdoors."
Slight alterations in a gene encoding a protein known to regulate PCB's toxic effects were found in the fish.
America’s WETLAND Foundation has launched an 18-month program that will involve communities from Texas to Florida.
Tim Gieseke's book illustrates a practical method to identify environmental values and makes a case for bringing the externalities of agriculture and business into the economic accounting framework.
The rule provides a collaborative and science-based framework for creating land management plans that would support ecological sustainability and contribute to rural job opportunities.
EPA is making the plans, which describe how companies are making their impoundments safer, available through its website.
A memorandum of understanding outlines enhanced coordination of enforcement and compliance activities.
The federal agency and California want to improve water quality and resource protection in the San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary.
The Department of Environmental Protection has fined Pennsylvania General Energy Co. $28,960 for the illegal discharge of Airfoam HD, a surfactant, into Pine Creek in Lycoming County last March.