A Household Cure for Dying Habitat? A Sweet Idea for Our Prairies
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 19--Call it the sugar diet.   A University of Puget Sound botanist and her students are testing the sweetener's restorative powers on the South Sound's vulnerable short-grass prairies.
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By Beth Gallaspy, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Jun. 13--BIG THICKET NATIONAL PRESERVE -- Dots of color on rotting wood make Katie Winsett happy.
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By Marni Pyke  mpyke@@dailyherald.com  The DuPage County Forest Preserve District is doing what comes naturally at Springbrook Prairie.
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By Ian Johnston Environment Correspondent  WILD flowers grown on some of the world's least fertile land could provide huge amounts of environmentally friendly biofuel, according to US scientists.
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As regulators struggle to find a better way to manage the region's fish stocks, a Maine group offers a potential solution that should be included in any study of alternative management plans.
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Environmentalists are thinking ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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Researchers are goading tiny organisms like bacteria and algae into producing fuels like hydrogen and methane. The process is not useful yet, but the technology could be a solution to the energy problem. By Amit Asaravala.
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Some families are trying to save money and the planet, with energy from backyard turbines.
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A submersible robot can harvest timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green. By Michael Behar from Wired magazine.
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By David Hendee, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 23--GRAND ISLAND, Neb. -- A plan for improving habitat for four rare wildlife species in the central Platte River hit a few bumps Friday in the prairie stream's broad, flat valley.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep.
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The decline of domesticated bees threatens North America's food supply. Some researchers believe original wild bee species could come to the rescue.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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TUCSON, ARIZ. - The landmark glass terrarium known as Biosphere 2, which was built as a self-sustaining environment for humans 20 years ago, and the 1,650 acres surrounding the research site were sold to a home developer for $50 million.
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Science & environment: Prairie vole males look after babies, build nests, stick to one partner - and make ideal models for humans. Or do they?
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Low maintenance topiaries in a menagerie of shapes can satisfy that urge to plant.