Science vs. the sea lamprey: Researcher uncovers a natural compound to combat the invasive water species

Science vs. the sea lamprey: Researcher uncovers a natural compound to combat the invasive water species: A promising -- and natural -- solution to curb destructive the sea lamprey population has been developed by a team of researchers.

Roads are driving rapid evolutionary change in our environment: Study explains why road ecology matters

Roads are driving rapid evolutionary change in our environment: Study explains why road ecology matters: Roads are causing rapid evolutionary change in wild populations of plants and animals according to a new paper. The study looks at the evolutionary changes that are being caused by the way roads slice and dice our planet.

Thought for Today

"Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying that "the game belongs to the people." So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The "greatest good for the greatest number" applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method."

Theodore Roosevelt, A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open (1916)