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The fate of a shrinking salt lake is the last thing you would expect football fans to chant about - but Iranians are doing all they can to stop a looming ecological disaster. Lake Orumieh in north-west Iran, one of the world's largest salt lakes and a Unesco biosphere reserve, is disappearing due to drought and government mismanagement,...

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An ambitious attempt to create an encyclopedia of every known species on Earth has reached a major new milestone.The Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), a free and collaborative website, said on Monday it now has pages for each of 750,000 species, meaning more than one-third of all the planet's 1.9m species are now covered. Continue reading here: Encyclopedia of...

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An ambitious attempt to create an encyclopedia of every known species on Earth has reached a major new milestone.The Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), a free and collaborative website, said on Monday it now has pages for each of 750,000 species, meaning more than one-third of all the planet's 1.9m species are now covered. The rest is here: Encyclopedia...

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Any serious oil spill in the ice of the Arctic, the "new frontier" for oil exploration, is likely to be an uncontrollable environmental disaster despoiling vast areas of the world's most untouched ecosystem, one of the world's leading polar scientists has told The Independent. Read more here: Oil exploration under Arctic ice could cause 'uncontrollable' natural disaster

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Any serious oil spill in the ice of the Arctic, the "new frontier" for oil exploration, is likely to be an uncontrollable environmental disaster despoiling vast areas of the world's most untouched ecosystem, one of the world's leading polar scientists has told The Independent. Read more: Oil exploration under Arctic ice could cause 'uncontrollable' natural disaster

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Invasive earthworms can alter the carbon and nitrogen cycles in woodland, as well as undermining native plant species, a study has said. More here: Alien worm invasion 'threat to forests'

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Invasive earthworms can alter the carbon and nitrogen cycles in woodland, as well as undermining native plant species, a study has said. Read the original here: Alien worm invasion 'threat to forests'

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Fragmented coral reef habitats aren't always bad for the ecology, say Australian researchers, and can even be helpful. This is the finding of a study of experimental coral reefs in Kimbe Bay in Papua New Guinea published in the latest edition of the journalEcology. The rest is here: Fragmented reefs can be good for ecology

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Fragmented coral reef habitats aren't always bad for the ecology, say Australian researchers, and can even be helpful. This is the finding of a study of experimental coral reefs in Kimbe Bay in Papua New Guinea published in the latest edition of the journalEcology. See the original post: Fragmented reefs can be good for ecology

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MIAMI - As Miami prepares to dredge its port to accommodate supersize freighters, environmentalists are making a last-ditch effort to protect threatened coral reefs and acres of sea grass that they say would be destroyed by the expansion. See more here: Fears in Miami That Port Expansion Will Destroy Reefs