Tag: Climate Change
Seeds on Loan, Solar Windows & At-Risk (and Way Cool) Birds
Also in our best of the web: NOAA nods to saltwater sport fishers, springtime rattlesnake confab, golf courses for conservation, and a bit more TED-tweaking.
Citizen Science Tuesday: oldWeather
Citizen Science Tuesday connects you to projects that benefit conservation. This week: take a voyage with the mariners of oldWeather and improve data for climate models.
Climate-Smart Agriculture: Integrating Adaptation and Mitigation in the Tropics
Both adaptation and mitigation strategies will help farmers in the tropics deal with climate change. The problem? These strategies are often pursued separately, reducing their effectiveness in meeting broader conservation goals.
Citizen Science Tuesday: NestWatch
Citizen Science Tuesday connects you to projects that benefit conservation. This week: track the reproductive success of birds and improve understanding of challenges they face with NestWatch. Who doesn’t want to spend time watching baby birds?
Zebra Stripes, Disease-Fighting Owls, and Jellyfish for Lunch
Also in our best of the web: rattlesnake wrangling, high-end environment news, art meets climate science, and an endangered mammal that looks like an artichoke
Citizen Science Tuesday: Project BudBurst
Our new series connects you to citizen science projects that benefit conservation. First up: record when trees bloom and wildflowers blossom to help Project BudBurst track the effects of climate change.
Of Crows and Cuckoos, Pigeons, Pachyderms, and Komodos
Also in our best of the web: A bioblitz near you, the Colorado delta gets a big gulp, never-till farming, and what Hollywood gets wrong about bugs and birders
Amphibian Invisibility Cloak, Resilient Bats, and Terror Birds
Also in our best of the web: taxonomy appreciation day, donor-funded science, rainwater harvesting, and snowy owls.
Loggerheads’ Lost Years, Bronx River Beavers & Sibley 2.0
Also in this week’s best of the web: blue-blooded horseshoe crabs, Javan rhinos, hitchhiking pseudoscorpions, and cave-dwelling crocodiles of Gabon
Canary in the Cornfield: Why the Fuss about Monarchs?
Everyone is talking about the record low count of monarchs at their overwintering site in Mexico, but what is really happening to these butterflies and why does it matter?
Juggling Chainsaws: Carbon, Biodiversity, and Livelihoods in the Logging Landscape
Smaller areas of high intensity wood production or larger areas of lower-impact logging? It’s not a simple question — and maybe not even the right one.
Oil from Grocery Bags, Elephant Repellent, Roadkill and More
Also in our best of the web: dating advice for spiders, big data for farming and disease prediction, and a little Darwin Day buzz.
Flying Snakes, White Green Roofs, Why Agoutis Should Sleep in & More
Also in this week’s best of the web: growing an electrical circuit, why scientists and designers struggle to collaborate, and the secret handshake of science communications.
The Amazing Lemming: The Rodent Behind the Snowy Owl Invasion?
Lemmings shape nearly every aspect of arctic ecosystems. Could their recent abundance also be a key factor in the snowy owl invasion occurring in the eastern United States?
The Cooler: Tweeting Sharks, Animal Cannibals, Farmbots & More
Also in our Friday best-of-the-web: a dolphin mega-pod, a trove of old snake venom, and one acid-loving coral reef.
Featured Content
What is Cool Green Science?
Editors’ Choice
Where Have The Monarchs Gone?
Monarch butterflies are disappearing. What's going on? Is there anything we can do about it?
North America's Greatest Bird Spectacle?
The Platte River is alive with 500,000 sandhill cranes. Learn how you can catch the action--even from your computer.
The Strangest Wildlife Rescue?
Meet the animal that was saved from extinction because someone broke a wildlife law.
Field Research
Bird is the Word
- #Nature Longread for your weekend: Hotspots for People -- A New #Conservation Strategy? http://t.co/WaTg0NfgZD
- How to make #scicomm evidence-based all the way down: http://t.co/gWZMMRpbqx via @cult_cognition
- Females (insects) with penises?: http://t.co/ge7gjaE4wi via @edyong209
- A paradise of #birds: Rice field #ecosystems can host rich diversity: http://t.co/RqSPRr2eIb via @SciDevNet
- For the PM crowd: The best in #nature #science this week: Seeds on loan, solar windows & amazing at-risk #birds: http://t.co/AMJkYFnY36
Blogroll: Conservation and Science
- 10,000 Birds
- Bird Freak
- Blogfish
- Carl Zimmer's The Loom
- Climate Compass
- Collide-a-scape
- Conservation Biology Institute
- Conservation Bytes
- Conservation Magazine
- Deep Sea News
- Discover Magazine Blogs
- Dynamic Ecology
- Earth Lab
- Eat More Brook Trout
- Environmental Leader
- Gary Paul Nabhan
- God of Wednesday
- Grist
- High Country News
- I, Science
- Idaho Nature Notes
- Inside Science
- Knight Science Journalism Tracker
- Mongabay
- Mother Jones Blue Marble
- New Scientist
- New York Times Green
- Not Exactly Rocket Science
- NRDC Blogs
- Orion Blog
- Peter Gleick: Significant Figures
- Pew Environment Group
- Planet Change
- PLoS blog
- Prairie Ecologist
- Real Climate
- Science Blogs
- Science Daily
- Science Friday
- Science Jon
- Science Shots
- Scientific American Blogs
- Sea Monster
- Short Sharp Science
- Smithsonian Science & Nature
- Strange Behaviors
- Surprising Science
- Ted Williams Conservation Blog
- Tet Zoo
- The Blog Aquatic
- The Tiny Aviary
- TreeHugger
- Wired Science
- Yale Environment 360
