The future of the Cook Inlet belugas is caught between the competing, and sometimes conflicting, interests of environmentalists, conservation scientists, native Alaskans and economic developers.

ECONOMIST: Environment

The team has joined with Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation to enhance understanding of climate change (and to help prove that whales can smell).

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Scientists with Conservation International on Monday announced the discovery of 10 new species in what's being referred to as a safe haven for frogs located in the west of the country on the border with Panama.

CNN: New species found in Colombian forests

Conservation groups, and many scientists, have been calling for a complete moratorium on bluefin fishing for some time, but have been roundly ignored.

ECONOMIST: Tuna fishing

In a study published last year in Conservation Letters, a group of scientists led by Brian MacKenzie, of the Technical University of Denmark, describe how they ran a computer model of the bluefin tuna's population dynamics.

ECONOMIST: Efforts to ban the international trade in bluefin tuna

One of Kuwait's leading environmental scientists, with three decades experience in resource conservation, Asem has played a major role in restoring Kuwait's war-ravaged ecosystems as head of the United Nations Compensation Commission's environmental remediation program.

CNN: November 12, 2012 -- Updated 1223 GMT (2023 HKT)

At the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and other botanic gardens around the world, our plant scientists and horticulturists are working towards effective, science-based conservation solutions to ensure that we leave a healthy and hopeful world to the next generation.

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The scientists say a fuller understanding of the parasite-host relationship is required to help conservation efforts.

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