Alcoa Sows Seeds of Conservation
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By BRYAN CORBIN, Courier & Press Statehouse bureau (317) 631-7405 or corbinb@courierpress.com  Planting new hardwood trees to restore forestland and link disconnected nature preserves in Southwestern Indiana will be funded through a donation announced Tuesday.
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A "barcode" gene that can be used to distinguish between plant species has been identified.
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NEW YORK  - Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. on Tuesday said it will invest about &#36;284 million US to build a new plant in Mosjoen, Norway, to supply anodes to two aluminum smelters in the region.
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Rio Tintoâs recent offer of $38.1 billion for Alcan may be a sign that aluminum is no longer an estranged cousin in the mining industry.
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By Cahal Milmo From Plantagenet hunting parties to the 250,000 ramblers who now stroll among its ancient trees, Hatfield Forest has coexisted with humanity for generations without coming to much harm.
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A desire to exercise stewardship over the environment is growing among evangelical Christians.
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The government of one of Brazil's Amazonian states plans to reforest areas of land cleared for pasture.
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PILANESBERG NATIONAL PARK, South Africa -- Ecologist Rudi van Aarde leaned back on a veranda that overlooked dry grasslands and a group of bull elephants, his shoes still dusty from an 8,000-mile tour of game reserves in southern Africa. Van Aarde was on a mission: saving elephants from sanctioned killings.
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CONCEPCIÃÂN, Argentina -- From  a flat patch of tree-studded savannah, the gaze stretches for miles: across a small pond where a marsh deer stops to drink, and over swampy wetlands where herons gingerly high-step.
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Many Arctic plant species have readily adjusted to big climate changes, which implies that at least in that region, plants may be able to shift long distances.
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Long used by farmers as a guard against grazing animals and erosion, a plant called jatropha is now being hailed as a potentially ideal source of biofuel.
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Science & environment: Scientists hope evidence will save other areas of land given over to timber and oil-palm plantations.
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one being habitat - I wonder if there is a conscientious effort from the cement jungle population to give one creature a chance.
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Peruvian alpaca herders are turning to technology to thwart a growing problem of the high Andes Mountains: the smuggling of prize-winning, wool-producing alpacas to neighboring countries.
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CONCEPCIÃÂN, Argentina -- From a flat patch of tree-studded savannah, the gaze stretches for miles: across a small pond where a marsh deer stops to drink, and over swampy wetlands where herons gingerly high-step.
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By WARREN, Amanda  Firefighters and environmental advisers dealt with a chemical spill at a Hornby seed factory yesterday.   PGG Wrightson grain and seed general manager John McKenzie said the agricultural chemical was used in the company's seed-treatment process.
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Wildlife agencies are re-examining some longstanding approaches to cultivating waterfowl populations.