09-08-2012The distinctive corn bunting Miliaria calandra, known to farmers as “the fat bird of the barley”, is under threat. The…
09-08-2012Recognizing that the rapidly growing global use of highly persistent systemic pesticides, that are unprecedentedly toxic to invertebrates (including all…
02-08-2012This study was designed to examine the environmental exposure of surface- and groundwater pollution in remote mountainous regions of northern…
02-08-2012The aim of this investigation was to broaden our knowledge of possible leaching to water of pesticides used in field…
01-08-2012An investigation was carried out to study the effect of imidacloprid on bacterial (Brevundimonas sp. MJ15) populations in soil. In…
01-08-2012The cumulative ecological impacts on aquatic paddy communities and their recovery processes after two successive annual applications of two systemic…
01-08-2012Some of the most well-loved flowers of the British countryside are disappearing from arable fields, conservationists warned today. Cornflowers, corn…
01-08-2012Europe's largest wading bird, the curlew Numenius arquata, is facing extinction in Wales. The RSPB now think there could be…
01-08-2012South Africa's national bird, the blue crane (Anthropoides paradiseus), also known as the Stanley Crane and the Paradise Crane, remains…
31-07-2012The skylark Alauda arvensis has suffered from a "surprising and worrying decline" in numbers in Scotland, ornithologists have warned. The…
