Christians encouraged to make environmental justice a priority. Global warming, climate change, ethical investment, green lifestyles, eco-transport, species extinctions, and encouraging children and young people to go green are among the topics to be tackled. One of the keynote speakers for the conference, Ellen Teague, who edits the magazine Vocation for Justice, explained: "Environmental Justice is becoming more central to the mission of the Christian churches, as we become increasingly...

The rooting and wallowing activities of the creatures, which tear apart the earth to search for food, have also forced some farmers to repeatedly replant fields. While feral swine have plagued warmer states for years, they are a recent problem in Iowa, with wildlife officials working to eradicate them since 2004. Under a national wildlife disease management program, Keirn said researchers will collect and test wild pigs in up to 25 states to look for the presence of classical swine fever....

Some organizers said the project has special significance to them this year because of plans to build a border fence on some of the Valley s refuge land. About 700 people turned out for Rio Reforestation, an annual project that enlists community volunteers in planting native trees on refuge land. Anything we can do to create native habitat is positive, he said. The volunteers planted native trees such as anacua, ebony and huisache, said James Matz, one of the project s organizers....

With the air still hazy with soot from the wildfires, do you allow your children to go play? Photo Gallery Facing the flames Photo Gallery Day 8: Holding ground Photo Gallery Reader Photos: SoCal Fires Rage Graphic Fires destroy thousands of homes click to enlarge Related. With the air still hazy with soot from the wildfires, do you allow your children to go play? Photo Gallery Facing the flames Photo Gallery Day 8: Holding ground Photo Gallery Reader Photos: SoCal Fires Rage Graphic Fires...

Many home-owners turn their back gardens into a patio, all of which means that vital refuges for wildlife are fast disappearing. Now, it does my heart good to see dotted across the parks, year-round shelters for wildlife, which have been created by long-swaying grasses. Gardens without a plentiful supply of insects, gastropods or other invertebrates, which are part of the lower orders of life, would cause the creatures that give us most joy in the garden (those towards the top of the food...

The long-term goal of the multiyear research project is to help the lemurs survive the effects of logging and natural disasters that have destroyed much of their forest habitat. In addition to studying the lemurs' diets, activity levels, locations in trees and social interactions, the volunteer researchers examined the forests. The mission was to study the endangered black-and-white ruffed lemur another animal indigenous to Madagascar, which lies in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern...

According to the study, if striped bass were made a game fish and the commercial allocation was shifted to the recreational sector, New York would gain an extra $85 million and 277 jobs. The presidential order specifically encourages states to enact the same designation in state-regulated waters within three miles of shore. The executive order protects stripers from commercial interests in federal waters. October 28, 2007 -- RECREATIONAL anglers up and down the East Coast ap plauded...

They have provided trapping and sport hunting on our wildlife refuges and private properties. The civil society of New Jersey is crying out for change, and Assemblyman Mike Panter has sponsored Assembly bill A- 3275, which would allow a diversified and unbiased seven-member council, who would not have direct financial interest in wildlife, to be appointed by the governor. The civil society of New Jersey is crying out for change, and Assemblyman Mike Panter has sponsored Assembly bill A-...

One study, to be published by the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, tested college athletes with six-minute bike rides in two environmentsone with very little pollution, and one with quite a bit. Meanwhile, some scientists believe the air in Beijing may at times contain up to five times the WHO limit, or as much as a heavily trafficked road in the middle of the afternoon on a sunny day. The study's authors believe these students breathed in pollutants in the first...