Ithaca Environment

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From The Ithaca Journal . The Emerald Ash Borer is a beetle from Asia that has been devastating the ash trees of the US, especially in the e...

From the Ithaca Journal The Cayuga Nature Center is accepting proposals from groups or individuals who would like to use its 40-acre farm fa...

Scientists in Sweden have come up with a new theory for how evolution produced the ear. The answer, they report in the journal Nature, is th...

There is trouble beneath the surface of this majestic lake in Kenya's Rift Valley. For one thing, huge carp, introduced years back, are ...

According to the USA Today : Zookeepers at the Mutsugoro Okoku zoo near Tokyo presented the hamster Gohan ("meal") to the snake Ao...

From the Chicago Tribune BEIJING, CHINA -- A record 21 surviving baby pandas were born in China's zoos and breeding centers in 2005, st...

From inkycircus , a woman-run science blog: It's a year since the tsunami, and there've been lots of stories in the media about reg...

Jeff Dukes, professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts, works in the areas of the impact of human activity on the environment. ...

From George Monbiot in the Guardian Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been...

Via Biodiesel Blog , Wired Magazine profiles Willie Nelson: "Nelson told The Associated Press in an interview last week that he began l...

In the New York Times ELKO, Nev. - Just outside the chasm of North America's biggest open-pit gold mine there is an immense oasis in the...

Here is a spectacular picture of a flying mobula. That's a creature that's a kind of manta rey. Read about them in Michael Albert...

Danby residents are working to preserve wetlands that are the homes to beavers, herons, and many other birds. DANBY - Searching for help in ...

From National Geographic Like something straight out of a Jules Verne novel, an enormous tentacled creature looms out of the inky blackness ...

From Nature . Reports this week claimed that polar bears were being forced by climate change into cannibalism and attempting suicidal swims....

See the website of photographer Florian Schulz.

From AP via YahooNews SAN FRANCISCO - Toxic waste from computers, TVs and other electronic devices discarded in the United States and disman...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Fresh from visits to Canada's Yukon Territory and Alaska's northernmost city, four U.S. senators said ...

PARIS (AFP) - The best way to save the planet's large wild mammals facing extinction this century, including lions, cheetahs, elephants ...

From the Ithaca Journal . BILL WARREN/Journal Staff Kevin Donovan walks up to the pool below Taughannock Falls Friday. The waterfall is bare...

By TIM MOLLOY, Associated Press Writer CORTE MADERA, Calif. - Politicians and automakers say a car that can both reduce greenhouse gases and...

August 11, 2005. By Fred Pearce, NewScientist.com news service THE world's largest frozen peat bog is melting. An area stretching for a ...

June marks the beginning of the melt season for Arctic sea ice, which reaches its minimum extent at the end of the season in September. In t...

Ithaca resident Janet Snoyer is moving from her South Hill home after the failure of efforts by Emerson Power Transmission to rid her home o...

Interim Cornell President Rawlings announced that Cornell would go ahead with plans to bulldoze Redbud Woods and build a new parking lot, in...

Since 1960, the oceans have been getting less salty, due to the influx of fresh water from melting glaciers and from increased rainfall. Bot...

(Editorial comment: I hate being so predictable that every article about the Bush administration and the environment is negative. Maybe I wi...

The Full Plate Farm Collective is a collective of three farms working to provide a quality CSA experience to shareholders and to strengthen ...

Mission Statement CCE works to build widespread citizen understanding and advocacy for policies and actions designed to manage and protect i...

New England waters are being plagued by what may be the worst outbreak of red tide in the region, a Massachusetts official said Friday. ...

The Panama Canal depends on the water from Gatún Lake, one of the largest artificial lakes in the world, created during construction of the ...

From The New York Times, Carolyn Marshall writes: Speaking to hundreds of international leaders gathered here for the United Nations World ...

Philip A. Cooney, the chief of staff to President Bush’s Council on Environmental Quality, resigned yesterday, White House officials said. M...

In four different instances last week, the Bush administration allowed corporate influence to affect national environmental, scientific, hea...

From Majikthise Marine biologists have figured out one of the secrets of life in the deep sea beds of Monterey Bay. Until now, it was unclea...

From Jane Marie Law: Come to Redbud Woods tomorrow morning (Friday, June 9) at 7 a.m. The tides are turning to preserve this green space fo...

From Jae Sullivan: Hi Friends of Dorothy, The Redbud Group will have an informal dedication of a portion of Redbud Woods, some portion of th...

via the Ithaca Journal Chainsaw crews felled the first handful of trees Monday morning at the Cornell University site known as Redbud Woods,...