• Invasive species bans show a step in the right direction

    Updated: 2013-01-30 13:44:34
    Yesterday marked a historic day for the control of non-native invasive species in the UK. From next spring, five species of non-native aquatic plants will no longer be allowed to be sold within the UK. The ban is the first of its kind and represents the growing recognition of the impact that these species have [...]

  • Name that animal sound

    Updated: 2013-01-29 21:34:45
    You may have seen some press coverage recently of the latest iteration of Cornell’s Macauley Library of Natural Sounds online.  Today, Wired put together a fun little game in a slide show on their site, in which you can listen to clips of odd animals sounds, and try to guess whose voice you’re hearing.  The [...]

  • Might Humans Learn from Peaceful Bonobos?

    Updated: 2013-01-28 18:41:30
    Humans share 98.7 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees. But while humans and the common chimpanzee can be violent, another chimp species — bonobos — are given to making love instead of war. How did two such similar species, the bonobo … Continue reading →

  • Sustainable Solutions to Global Environmental Change

    Updated: 2013-01-28 17:49:53
    On 8-9 April 2013 the British Ecological Society (BES) and the York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) will be hosting a major international scientific meeting, Global Change and Biosphere Interactions , as part of our centenary and celebrating the launch of YESI. Focused on sustainable solutions to global environmental change, the conference will feature major international speakers [...]

  • Beijing Market Offers Food Credits for Recyclables

    Updated: 2013-01-26 21:17:30
    At a produce market in Bejing, customers exchange their recyclables and kitchen waste for credits toward the purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables.  

  • Obama Addresses Climate Change in Second Inaugural

    Updated: 2013-01-21 17:43:20
    “We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and … Continue reading →

  • Where We Live: The U.S. and Canadian Populations as Dots on a Map

    Updated: 2013-01-16 21:54:15
    Brandon Martin-Anderson, a cartographer involved with computational urban planning at MIT’s Media Lab, was curious. What sort of human settlement patterns would emerge if every person counted in the most recent U.S. and Canadian census was plotted as a dot … Continue reading →

  • Then & Now: Approaching the High Line

    Updated: 2013-01-14 21:12:00
    : : Pages local ecologist About Writing Projects Monday , January 14, 2013 Then Now : Approaching the High Line Spring 2010 Winter January 2013 Don't miss the next post Spread the word 0 comment(s Post a Comment Thank you for commenting on this post and hope to hear from you , . soon Next Page Previous Page Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom WELCOME local ecologist is a project of localecology.org Feel free to email us suggestions , including corrections . info(at . localecology.org Follow by email Subscribe to our newsletter POST ARCHIVE POST ARCHIVE January 2013 5 December 2012 6 November 2012 5 October 2012 10 September 2012 6 August 2012 8 July 2012 3 June 2012 8 May 2012 6 April 2012 4 March 2012 6 February 2012 4 January 2012 8 December 2011 7 November 2011 4 October 2011 7

  • Ambient sounds of the space station!

    Updated: 2013-01-06 13:44:29
    Perhaps we’re too distraught about the ways shipping noise affects whales, airplanes intrude on hikers’ solitude, or wind turbines disturb sleep of nearby neighbors.  Wouldn’t it be nice to settle into the peacefully silent world of the International Space Station?  Well, maybe not.  Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has been following in the grand Canadian tradition [...]

  • Quiet ocean experiment

    Updated: 2013-01-06 13:22:34
    Boston’s WBUR recently interviewed Jesse Ausubel, of Rockefeller University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, about an ambitious project dubbed the Quiet Ocean Experiment.  The idea is to dedicate a year to making detailed observations of wildlife responses to temporary reductions in normally noisy ocean activities, and ideally, to spur a period of several hours to [...]

  • Massachusetts grapples with diverse responses to wind turbines

    Updated: 2013-01-06 00:04:51
    Eastern Massachusetts continues to be a hotbed of both small-scale wind development and ongoing complaints in several towns.  Sixteen communities in the area now host one to four wind turbines (not all of which are full-sized industrial turbines); in five of these towns, complaints have been relatively numerous (a dozen to several dozen individuals).  Some [...]

  • NASA Explains Why the World Won’t End on 12/21/12

    Updated: 2012-12-20 09:31:38
    NASA has been getting so many queries about the potential end of the world on 12/21/12 that they’ve dedicated a webpage to Frequently Asked Questions about the approaching end of the Maya Calendar. For answers to burning questions such as: … Continue reading →

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