Category: Invasive species
Detecting Asian Carp in the Great Lakes
Written by Lindsay Chadderton | January 28th, 2010
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Asian carp are now in Lake Michigan — and that’s not good news for the Great Lakes, says Conservancy scientist Lindsay Chadderton. Find out how he and colleagues discovered the invasion!
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, January 21
Written by Darci Palmquist | January 21st, 2010
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Hot off the grill — your top 5 green news links of the day:
- Did the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts kill off any hope of tackling climate change? (The Vine)
- It’s time to ban the import of invasive snakes like Burmese pythons, says Ken Salazar. (Green Inc.)
- Biologists discover an Eden in Ecuador — sitting, ironically enough, on top of some major oil reserves. (Dot Earth)
- Grass lawns in city parks release more greenhouse gases than they store, says a new study. (Conservation Journal Watch)
- One issue from post-earthquake Haiti that hasn’t received much attention yet: the country’s deforestation problem. (Bright Green Blog)
A Hippo in…Australia?
Written by Matt Miller | January 18th, 2010
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A pygmy hippo — a native of Africa — shot in Australia? The Nature Conservancy’s Matt Miller says it’s true — and an example of a brave new world.
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, December 15
Written by Darci Palmquist | December 15th, 2009
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Check out the Top 5 green news stories we’re seeing on the web this morning:
The site of a former brothel in Nevada could become a free-roaming river and sanctuary for wildlife, with restoration help from The Nature Conservancy (NYTimes).
Besides the big climate summit, Copenhagen is a city known for its biking culture. So it makes perfect sense [...]
An Endangered Species…Lottery?
Written by Eddie Game | December 1st, 2009
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Australia has some truly incredible wildlife: egg-laying mammals, kangaroos that live in trees, desert-dwelling frogs and more species of reptile than anywhere else on earth.
Unfortunately we’ve also managed to give our native species a fair old hiding. No other country has suffered more mammal extinctions in recent history than Australia. In the past 100 years [...]
Eat Lionfish and Stop These Caribbean Reef Invaders
Written by Stephanie Wear | November 2nd, 2009
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My husband returns to the same reefs every year in the Bahamas, where he has been teaching a coral reef ecology class for the last 14 years. On his 2008 trip, he noticed that the reef fish were missing. The culprits were quickly identified — and during his 2009 course, he and his students were [...]
Cool Green Morning; Thursday, October 22
Written by Darci Palmquist | October 22nd, 2009
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You won’t see it in any headlines today, but let’s just give a quick shout-out to The Nature Conservancy for turning 58 today! Yep, that’s right, today is the day we were incorporated back in 1951. Times certainly have changed – greenhouse gas emissions, iPhone apps and wind farms are the topics du jour – but conservation is still as [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, October 14
Written by Nicole Levins | October 14th, 2009
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If you’re anything like me, you can’t get your day started without your daily serving of Cool Green Morning. (Also, caffeine. Lots and lots of caffeine.) Read on to get your fix:
Big snakes are becoming a big problem, says the United States Geological Survey. The group just issued a report concluding that, should the Burmese [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, September 30
Written by Nicole Levins | September 30th, 2009
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That random drunk guy slobbering all over you isn’t the only thing that makes tailgating gross. Your grandma’s cats have secret double lives as invasives. Turning off your car won’t kill your starter or cause your engine to explode. Today’s Cool Green Morning is full of life-changing revelations. Read on:
What does your beloved pet kitty [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, September 16
Written by Nicole Levins | September 16th, 2009
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Filling your tank with dead trees. Battling climate change with contraception. Robots, toxic waste and the mob. It’s just another Saturday night for some, but for us, it adds up to a pretty wild Cool Green Morning:
Andy Revkin over at Dot Earth asks if, um, family planning might be the “ultimate green technology.” Researchers at [...]
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