Environmental Protection
Noise pollution threatens songbirds in towns and cities
The findings may have implications for the survival and population numbers of songbirds in urban settings.
Study on 14-year-old disaster finds oil still leaking into sea
It’s been more than 14 years since Hurricane Ivan made landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States as a Category 3 storm, with wind speeds approaching 200 kilometers per hour and a destructive storm surge. Worse is what’s
Snow and ice are melting ever faster in the Himalayas
Since 2000, Himalayan glaciers have been losing nearly half a meter of ice a year vertically on average.
If coral reefs go, so will much of marine biodiversity
Bleaching can easily upset the delicate balance of these finely tuned systems.
WWF: unknowingly we each eat a plastic credit card a week
Credit cards are hardly considered nutritious treats, yet we all gobble them down each week, in a way.
A baby dugong gains a new lease on life in Thailand
Survival training is helping an orphaned sea cow learn to live on its own in the sea.