Tag: Biodiversity
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New Website Helps Identify Bumblebees and Protect Pollinators
A new website launched yesterday allows people to be directly involved in protecting bumblebees throughout North America. BumbleBeeWatch.org enables people to connect with experts and other enthusiasts, and help build a comprehensive picture of where bumblebees are thriving and where they need help. Furry, hardworking bumblebees are essential to wildlands, gardens and farms, helping to…
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Overfishing Threatens One Quarter of Sharks and Rays With Extinction
A quarter of the world’s sharks and rays are threatened with extinction according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, with ray species found to be at a higher risk than sharks. The findings are part of the first ever global analysis of these species carried out by…
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250+ Bottlenose Dolphins Captured in Japan’s Taiji Cove Hunt
As we have witnessed the torture endured by 250+ dolphins in a cove in Taiji, Japan the past four days, as their families have been torn apart, and as our Cove Guardians continue to witness and show the world what is happening, we would like to share a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,…
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Soil Microbes Alter DNA in Response to Climate Change
A 10-year study of soil ecosystems has determined that microbes alter their genetic code in response to a warming climate so they can process excess carbon being absorbed by plants from the atmosphere, a team of U.S. researchers reports in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. [caption id="attachment_318537" align="alignnone" width="500"] New research shows soil microbes can alter their DNA…
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How Climate Change is Impacting Thoreau’s Walden Pond
By Tim Radford Walden, where Henry David Thoreau planted beans on land that had yielded only cinquefoil, blackberries, johnswort and sweet wild fruits, is changing. The trees and shrubs around Walden Pond are now out on average 18 days earlier than 150 years ago, when Thoreau made his observations. And, according to U.S. scientists in…