Grassland News

Posted November 19, 2008:

• UK’s Biggest Ever Countryside Survey: Results Published

Posted November 18, 2008:

• New National Survey Says Public Reveres Bison

Posted November 5, 2008:

• Extreme Weather Postpones Flowering Time Of Plants

Posted October 28, 2008:

• Models Help Assess Biofuels' Sustainability

Posted October 23, 2008:

• Which Grass Is Greener? Study To Select Northeast Grasses That Can Power The Bioenergy Era

Posted October 21, 2008:

• Earth In Midst Of Sixth Mass Extinction: 50% Of All Species Disappearing

Posted October 16, 2008:

• Global Warming Threatens Australia's Iconic Kangaroos

Posted October 6, 2008:

• Field Of The Future: Ecological Experiment Simulates Conditions In 2100

Posted October 2, 2008:

• Vegetation Hardly Affected By Extreme Flood Events: Impacts On Flora And Fauna Of The Elbe Flood Of 2002

Posted September 29, 2008:

• Warming Of 4 Degrees Celsius Depressed Plant Growth And Reduced Land Carbon Absorption

Posted September 26, 2008:

• Are Fires More Important Than Rain For The Savannah Ecosystem?

Posted September 21, 2008:

• Global Warming's Ecosystem Double Whammy

Posted September 9, 2008:

• 'Smart Water' May Help Boost Production From Oil Wells By 60 Percent

Posted August 21, 2008:

• Future Impact Of Global Warming Is Worse When Grazing Animals Are Considered, Scientists Suggest

Posted August 5, 2008:

• Climate Change And Species Distributions
• Saving Our Bees: Implications of Habitat Loss

Posted July 25, 2008:

• Switchgrass May Mean Better Soil

Posted July 9, 2008:

• Some Plants Can Adapt To Widespread Climate Change

Posted July 7, 2008:

• Rabbits, Mice And Prickly Shrubs Help Establish Natural Diversity
• China's Programs Aim To Restore Environment And Help People

Posted June 16, 2008:

• Protecting The Wild Cousin Of Llama, The Guanacos, In Chile

Posted May 22, 2008:

• Kangaroos Threaten One Of Australia's Last Remaining Original Grasslands, And Endangered Animals

Posted May 13, 2008:

• Sniffing Dogs Detect Feces To Help Monitor And Protect Threatened Animals In Brazil

Posted May 6, 2008:

• New Reason For Bee Hive Collapse: Ecologists Tease Out Private Lives Of Plants And Their Pollinators

Posted April 30, 2008:

• Bison Can Thrive Again, Study Says

Posted April 29, 2008:

• Legless Lizard And Tiny Woodpecker Among New Species Discovered In Brazil

Posted April 27, 2008:

• Biodiversity Is Crucial To Ecosystem Productivity

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Kalahari Desert Sands An Important, Forgotten Storehouse of Carbon Dioxide

Posted March 31, 2008:

• Small Desert Beetle Found To Engineer Ecosystems

Posted March 21, 2008:

• Rabbit Fish To The Rescue Of The Reef

Posted February 19, 2008:

• New Paradigm On Ecosystem Ecology Proposed

Posted February 12, 2008:

• Fossil Fuels And Nitrogen Fertilizers May Be Slowly Reducing The Number Of Plant Species Globally, Study Says

Posted February 10, 2008:

• Dust Storms In Sahara Desert Trigger Huge Plankton Blooms In Eastern Atlantic

Posted February 7, 2008:

• Conservation Strategies Must Shift With Global Environmental Change, Ecologists Urge

Posted December 12, 2007:

• Greenhouse Gas From English Streams Adding To Global Warming, Expert Says

Posted December 4, 2007:

• Summer-dormant Tall Fescue Grass Shows Promise For Pasture Improvements

Posted December 2, 2007:

• Expected Drop In Nitrogen Deposition May Hamper Kyoto Targets

Posted October 14, 2007:

• Nitrogen: The Silent Species Eliminator
• Pasturing Cows Convert Soil To Source Of Methane, Potent Greenhouse Gas

Posted October 11, 2007:

• Increase In Ethanol Production From Corn Could Significantly Harm Water Quality

Posted October 9, 2007:

• Switchgrass: Bridging Bioenergy And Conservation

Posted September 4, 2007:

• Protecting Beaches From Agricultural Pollution

Posted August 5, 2007:

• Climate Change Threatens Siberian Forests

Posted July 22, 2007:

• Melting Glaciers On The Tibetan Plateau

Posted June 29, 2007:

• Wildlife Habitat Protected In First Test Of Ecological Investment Markets

Posted June 1, 2007:

• Global Warming May Lower Grassland Quality

Posted March 27, 2007:

• Too Much Of A Good Thing? Excess Nutrients Or Water Limit Biodiversity

Posted March 14, 2007:

• Disease Opened Door To Invading Species In California

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