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Scientists: Gulf Health Nearly Back to Pre-Spill Level

BAY JIMMY, La. -- Scientists judge the overall health of the Gulf of Mexico as nearly back to normal one year after the BP oil spill, but with glaring blemishes that restrain their optimism about nature's resiliency, an Associated Press survey of researchers shows. More than three dozen scientists grade the Gulf's big...

What's Spike 80DF? 6 Facts About the Auburn Tree Poison

Harvey A. Updyke Jr., 62, has been arrested and charged with poisoning 130-year-old oak trees at Toomer's Corner, near the Auburn University campus. The act is said to have been motivated by the University of Alabama-Auburn University sports rivalry. Auburn University has created a Toomer's Oaks Update website that says...

Farmers Deposit Seeds in Arctic Doomsday Vault, Patrolled by Polar Bears

Farmers from Australia are the latest donors to a polar bear-patrolled Arctic doomsday vault that stores seeds as insurance against an international food emergency. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a converted mine, is located about 800 miles from the North Pole in Arctic Norway. An Australian delegation of farmers and...

UN Declares 2011 the 'International Year of Forests'

UNITED NATIONS -- Some 380 million years after the first trees grew on Earth, the United Nations today declared 2011 to be the "International Year of Forests," saying that forests and the 1.6 billion people who depend on them for their livelihood need to be protected. "Each minute that we spend on this planet breathing in...

Fla. Battles Yet Another Invasive Species at Annual Air Potato Roundup

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- "Potatoes" and "devastating infestation" might not sound like they go hand in hand. But in Florida, they can be so dangerous that a thousand people take to the forest to root through thorn-infested vines and bramble just to grab what tubers they can and run them out of town. That's what happened this...

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06/02/12 Great Barrier Reef risks entry onto danger list Source: Gulf News UNESCO urged decisive action from Australia to protect the Great Barrier Reef from a gas and mining boom, warning it risked being put on its list of world heritage sites deemed "in danger".
06/02/12 South Texas county wary as oil boom settles in Source: Lancaster Farming - Ephrata PA Sitting in the bank manager's office, the man turned to his wife.
06/02/12 Stimulus money boosts Florida reef restoration -... Source: Jackson County Floridan - Marianna FL Coral reef restoration along Florida's shores has been getting a boost from federal stimulus money.
06/02/12 More than just a night on the ice Source: The Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney NSW - Australia "We had dinner as normal on the ship, then after dinner we were taken out in zodiacs to where we were going to be camping.
06/02/12 Baron and Budd Announces Federal Judge's Preliminary... Source: Invacare Corp DALLAS--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- On May 31, 2012, U.S. District Judge J. Phil Gilbert of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois gave preliminary approval to a proposed settlement that would provide $105 million to hundreds of public water providers who have atrazine in their source water.

Background on ecology

Ecology (from , "house"; -λογία, "study of") is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment.

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