Recently, news streams, scientific journals, and the web are exploding with conservation news. Below is few highlights from the past few weeks. I’ll take my…
View More Does Weeping Help? Recent Conservation NewsTag: conservation
From the Editor’s Desk: The Giant Squid Can Be A Panda For The Ocean
How many of you see a panda and automatically think of conservation and the World Wildlife Fund? The well-known panda logo was designed by the…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: The Giant Squid Can Be A Panda For The OceanSharks, The News Cycle, And The Madness of Mobs
My life for the past few months has been all about sharks. Mind you, I’m not complaining. A confluence of opportunities has me building…
View More Sharks, The News Cycle, And The Madness of MobsFrom the Editor’s Desk: The Environmental Impacts of Tsunamis
On December 26th 2004, a 9.0 earthquake struck off northern Sumatra in Indonesia. This triggered a massive tsunami that affected Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Sri…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: The Environmental Impacts of TsunamisRed Means Go: Coral, Color, and Climate Change
One of the defining decision points of life: Settle-down and make a living close to the familiar particulars of your birthplace or venture out to…
View More Red Means Go: Coral, Color, and Climate ChangeEpic FAIL, Wake-Up Call, Turning Point, or All of the Above?
Here’s a hypothetical you parents out there should appreciate: Your child comes home from school, report card in hand. On reviewing the grades you notice…
View More Epic FAIL, Wake-Up Call, Turning Point, or All of the Above?Not Good Enough: Copenhagen Accord May Doom Coral Reefs
When you’re in the biodiversity conservation biz for any significant length of time, you inevitably develop a thick skin to grim pronouncements of ecosystem collapse…
View More Not Good Enough: Copenhagen Accord May Doom Coral ReefsThe Tide Pool: Super Sperm Whales, Extinction Debts, and Vent Conservation
An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! A new report from Lambert et al. reports…
View More The Tide Pool: Super Sperm Whales, Extinction Debts, and Vent ConservationOn Our Radar: Deep-Sea Mining
Deep-sea mining as been our radar for awhile. Now it’s on NYT’s Green Blog. Put it on yours. The Chinese government announces plans for deep-sea mining;…
View More On Our Radar: Deep-Sea MiningResearchBlogCast #8: Protecting the Environment Reduces Poverty?
Each week Razib Khan, Dave Munger and I discuss a paper that was recently blogged on in the Researchblogging.org. This week I chose the following…
View More ResearchBlogCast #8: Protecting the Environment Reduces Poverty?