Giraffes are the world’s tallest creatures and are well known around the world. A decade ago, there were 140,000 giraffes in Africa, today there are less than 100,000. The reasons are varied but essentially boil down to human interference. Poaching, increasing human populations, numerous wars and even increasing desert areas are pinpointed as devastating to the giraffes.

Of the nine subspecies of giraffes on the continent, one known to the country of Niger was thought to be near extinction at the end of the 20th century. The ...

The World Bank recently released a study regarding “emissions intensity”. Emissions intensity is the amount of carbon emissions created compared to each unit of gross domestic product. The World Bank has been determining these figures since 1994.

Between 1994 and 2006, emissions intensity actually decreased worldwide each year except for two. Individual countries did not necessarily match the reduction, as shown by such countries as China and the United States.

Between ...

A new study recently published in the journal Science discussed the effect of nitrogen pollution on alpine lakes. James Elser, who works at Arizona State University, led the study regarding 90 alpine lakes around the world, including Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.

The park is home to an array of species, including elk, deer, mountain lions, bears, bighorn sheep and eagles. Sixty of the ...

It is no secret that the decreasing sea ice in the Arctic has opened the waters to new issues, including ownership battles between countries and fishing in areas never before fished. Due to the dwindling ice, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council began debating what actions to take some three years ago. The group eventually decided to take a cautious approach.

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council decided that it would prevent commercial fishing in areas that are becoming ...

A study done by a team of researchers regarding Mount Kilimanjaro was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team was led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson, who works for Ohio State University. The study found that the snow and ice cover on the mountain may soon disappear.

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the team studied data collected over various points in the ...