• Evolution
  • News
  • ID reporting
  • Kansas Board of Ed changes definition of science
  • Rapid evolution in juncoes
  • Contemporary evolution and endangered species
• peer-reviewed publishing
• scientific integrity under fire -- Bush Administration record on science
• Conservatives try to roadblock HPV vaccine
• Table of contents alert series (summaries of current papers)
• urban ecology resources
• see also additions
• women in science
• more on women in science

environmental issues

• Agriculture issues -- 
• Birds at a shade coffee farm
• Wal-Mart and organic food
• Misplaced priorities of the Farm Bill
• Problems with palm oil
• Ecology of Christmas trees
• Arctic National Wildlife Refuge myths
• Update
• Bird diseases -- 
• Avian influenza (H5N1)
• bird flu again
• another bird flu update
• bird flu and migratory birds
• bird flu links
• bird flu and migratory birds again
• Avian malaria
• West Nile virus
• West Nile update
• see also this update
• Cats indoors 
• Cat predation on catbirds
• Feral cat colonies and endangered species
• Chemical/pesticide contamination
• lingering pesticides and chemicals -- mostly DDT
• see also worse living through chemicals
• Mercury contamination in birds
• Drugs in drinking water
• Two pesticides = increased toxicity
• Bird eggs tainted with selenium
• Drugs and more ending up in waterways
• China: Environmental problems
• Climate change
• And waterfowl
• And frogs (also here)
• And increased plant growth, focus on poison ivy
• Carbon offsets - what are they and do they make sense?
• Death of seabirds
• Deforestation
• Of Amazon
• Boreal forest destruction
• Update
• Discontinuing junk mail and catalogs
• Urban sprawl and McMansions
• Endangered endangered species act
• Grizzly bear delisting update
• Condors, woodpeckers, and hope
• Red Knot decline
• House bill 3824 here and here and here
• Kirtland's Warbler series (relevant posts): Problems with cowbird control, Future of Kirtland's Warblers
• Implications of Ivory-billed Woodpecker
• EPA and deception
• Extinction: recent papers on birds, amphibians, and moths
• Fair Trade, Starbucks challenge
• Update 1 and update 2
• Fisheries issues
• Grouper fishing halted
• Asian carp head to the Great Lakes

• Invasive or problem species (alphabetical)
• Avian malaria and honeycreepers
• Buckthorn (Rhamnus sp.)
• Non-native earthworms and buckthorn
• Rabbits and blue urine (buckthorn)
• Asian carp head to the Great Lakes
  • Update
• Canada Geese
• Cats
• Cat predation on catbirds
• Feral cat colonies and endangered species
• Two papers on impact of feral cats
• Earthworms (non-native) change forest habitats
  • And another research summary here
  • Short summary of another paper
• Garlic mustard
• Garlic Mustard changes forest composition
• Variegated Garlic Mustard
• Hemlock Wooly Adelgid (update here)
• House Crows in South Africa
• Preventing House Sparrows in bird boxes
• Knapweed
• Lovegrass and Botteri's Sparrows
• Mute Swan overpopulation
  • Using birth control
  • Short summary of paper on impact in MD
• Dispersal of non-native plants by cars
• Palmer Amaranth -- herbicide resistant
• Phragmites
• Rats, mongoose, and cats on Puerto Rico
• Siberian squill
• Sudden Oak Death
• Tachinid flies and silkmoth declines
• Trumpeter Swan introductions
• White-tailed Deer overpopulation
• Impact on songbird populations
• Deer eliminating bears
• Impact on invertebrates
• Link to overview article in BioScience
• More on deer browse and songbirds
• Waste reduction
• Discontinuing junk mail and catalogs
• Update
• Another update/option
• Reducing holiday waste
• Opting out of credit card solicitations
• Wildlife issues
• Lessons from the Lewis and Clark expedition
• Effects of Chernobyl accident on birds
• Overharvesting of swift nests for soup
• Feral cat colonies and endangered species
• Wind farms and birds
• See also post on carbon offsets
• Links to Audubon article

 

 

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