08-09-2013Built on a fragile balance of predators and prey, Australia's various ecosystems are highly susceptible to change. When human intervention…
07-09-2013The orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster) has a history as colourful as its feathers. The bird was first described by ornithologist…
07-09-2013Mammals, along with birds, reptiles and amphibians, are an extremely small percentage of all biodiversity (~0.4%). Invertebrates on the other…
07-09-2013Rachel Carson described her fears about the use of systemic insecticides like neonicotinoids 50 years ago when she wrote Silent…
07-09-2013Prairie chicken and grouse numbers are down sharply from the numbers of 2012, a wildlife biologist who monitors those populations…
07-09-2013All around him, even in a place as beautiful as the Little Qualicum River estuary, his office for 30 years…
06-09-2013Hundreds of thousands of pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) mysteriously disappeared from eastern and central South Dakota in the past year. Not…
06-09-2013Some 700 species of freshwater fish in North America are in jeopardy, scientists from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada said…
05-09-2013Environment Canada had conducted a water study in Saskatchewan on canola/ oilseed rape fields both last year and this year.…
05-09-2013Neonicotinoid insecticides have adverse effects not only on bees but also on freshwater invertebrates. An Eawag study published today in…
