Firewood and Invasive Insects - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

New York’s forests are under attack from numerous invasive exotic insect pests. In years past, we have been hit with Chestnut blight, European gypsy moth, Dutch elm disease and Beech bark disease, all with devastating results.

One common way many of these insect pests are moved around […]

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Yale Environment 360: Bee Species Inventory
Shows Riches of Biodiversity

A new inventory of bee species by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History notes more than 19,200 kinds, more than all species of birds and mammals put together. Among the myriad variations are many bees that do not make […]

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Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth’s Ecology

By Clive Thompson 

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Invasive Snails Take a Toll on Native Ducks : NPR

by Sea Stachura

The number of lesser scaup ducks is dwindling, and it could be an invasive species that does them in. Invasive snails and parasites are attacking these and other ducks on the Upper Mississippi.

All Things Considered, May 26, 2008 ·

Nearly 150 invasive species live […]

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BBC NEWS | UK | Wildlife populations ‘plummeting’

Between a quarter and a third of the world’s wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London.
Populations of land-based species fell by 25%, marine by 28% and freshwater by 29%, it says.
Humans are wiping out about […]

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