Termite damage costs Americans about $7 billion each year in damage and treatment costs, making them one of the most expensive insects in the country. According to a recent piece in EARTH magazine, that could be about to get worse. ...
Ask someone what his or her favorite animal is and most probably won't answer "vulture." That doesn't mean the threatened scavenging birds don't have their defenders, though. According to NatGeo News Watch and Ça?an ?ekercio?lu, senior research biologist at Stanford ...
A new article just out in New Scientist suggests that the lawless seas off the coast of Somalia may be in serious environmental danger, as pirates allow fishermen to resort to destructive, unregulated fishing practices. Typically, fishing vessels in the ...
A United Nations panel has informed the government of Japan that its treatment of two Greenpeace activists is in contravention of several articles of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The panel's opinion, which was communicated to Japanese authorities ...
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Each year in late January, an ultralight aircraft descends on Florida with a flock of young whooping cranes in tow. The birds, which are from central Wisconsin, follow the aircraft across the country to one of two wildlife preserves in ...
