Temperature: -20.8°C Wind Speed: 4 knots Temp with wind chill: approximately -25°C Our AHT conservation lab at Scott Base is nestled in a corner of the Hillary Field Centre (HFC). The HFC is the newest building at Scott Base, and t...

DOHA, Qatar — A U.S.-backed proposal to ban the international trade of polar bear skins, teeth and claws was defeated Thursday at a U.N. wildlife...

Surging demand for shark fin soup among Asia's booming middle classes is driving many species of these big fish to the brink of extinction, the marine conservation group Oceana said Tuesday. Up to 73 million sharks are killed each y...

Max Prinsen, the candidate pushed aggressively by environmentalists and progressives (our coverage here), won the open seat on the King Conservation District board. Election officials announced today that Prinesn won by less than 30...

Photo from fOTOGLIF MISSOULA, Mont. – Wildlife conservation projects in 11 Montana counties have been selected to receive grants from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in 2010. The new RMEF funding, totaling $221,725, will affect Be...

Concerned about our urban canopy cover? Don't just be a tree hugger - arm yourself with the latest information on the subject for arboreal Boris bashing at Kensington's Norland Conservation Society annual lecture. Jim Smith, the L...

Photo via rumpleteaser China, Japan, Russia and a handful of other countries are at the heart of a defeat of a proposal that would have benefited sharks by requiring increased transparency in the shark trade. Finning - the practic...

Certainly there are issues to be raised with many of the answers Stephen Harper gave when his YouTube video "conservation with Canadians" last night. I'm sure others will raise those issues; perhaps I will too later.One thing that o...

Yes, you read that right. We have just been given an absolutely stunning signed original 7″ x 9″ painting of a Spoon-billed Sandpiper by David Sibley, and you can win it! If - that is - you’re a member of our Conservation Club. ...

http://www.uic.edu/depts/anth/faculty/wali.htmlOn Thu 3/18 at 7 PM, the Hopleaf Bar (5148 N. Clark) hosts "Women on the Front Line For Conservation," a lecture by Dr. Alaka Wali, a curator and anthropologist at the Field Museum. Wal...

That needs to change and change now. Conservation needs to be foremost in our minds. Why? Scientists in Kuwait are saying that conventional crude oil production will peak in 2014. Yes, 2014!

DOHA, Qatar — China, Japan and Russia have helped defeat a proposal at U.N. wildlife trade meeting that would have boosted conservation efforts for sharks....

What folks are calling the "most important election you've never heard of" is held today at seven libraries in the county for an open seat on the King Conservation District's board of supervisors. But that's exactly the problem: You...

I hope the brewers who read this blog know about this already, but if you don't: you've still got time to register and attend the Great Lakes Water Conservation Workshop next week (Friday, the 26th) in Rochester, NY. Water is the bi...

Smart electric grids are championed by the federal government, conservation groups and industry as good for the economy and the environment.

This is only tangentially related to transit, but most of you probably don’t know we have an election coming up tomorrow, and it’s one where you have to vote in person to participate. It’s for the King County Conservation District B...

The Wildlife Conservation Society took a two-year survey of wildlife biodiversity in the Jeypore-Dehing rain forest in India, and found seven different cat species in a 354-square-mile area. This is the highest diversity of cats eve...

A group of Argentine scientists, including health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society, have announced that yellow fever is the culprit in a 2007-2008 die-off of howler monkeys in northeastern Argentina, a finding that und...

Classicist and a Roman social and cultural historian Dr. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, O.B.E., director of the Herculaneum Conservation Project and master of Sidney Sussex College in England, will lecture at Washington and Lee University ...

Acid ocean "SOS." Image credit:Alaska Marine Conservation Council US EPA has decided to consider ways that US states can, under already delegated authorities, curb acid forming pollutant emissions as may add to the power of Globa...