Although fisherman routinely fight bans on fishing, studies indicate that the creation of protected marine reserves in key areas can both raise the profits of fishermen and boost fish populations. Marine reserves could help to make nearby fisheries profitable by acting as nurseries for fish larvae that are later spread by ocean currents, for example.
An expensive recovery plan to save the ivory-billed woodpecker from extinction may come decades too late.
Geophysicists have linked historical earth-quakes on the southern section of California
Researchers in the United States and Europe are seeking funding so that the ice cores used to study Earth's past climate can have the same luxuriously chilly storage facilities currently enjoyed by prize tuna. The cylindrical cores, drilled at multi-million-dollar expense from polar and glacial ice, can be kilometres long.
Findings reignite debate over genetically modified crops.
