Environmental News Network

Beached Dolphins Released into Waters off Florida
Seven stranded rough-toothed dolphins swam to freedom 14 miles offshore in the Florida Straits Tuesday as rescue volunteers released them back into deep waters after two months of rehabilitation. >> Read the Full Article
U.S. Zoo Considers Using Animal Waste as Energy Source
The Rosamond Gifford Zoo is looking to become the first zoo in the nation to be powered by its own animal waste -- particularly the prodigious piles produced by its pachyderms. >> Read the Full Article
Wild Pigs Killed to Save Santa Cruz Fox
Norm Macdonald rises each morning with the sun, grabs his .223-caliber rifle and slips into the passenger seat of a tiny, doorless helicopter for another day of shooting pigs. >> Read the Full Article
Albatross Migration Attracts Celebrities, Punters
With electronic jockeys on board and carrying the hopes of celebrity owners and punters from around the world, 17 unlikely athletes have taken off in an endurance race deemed by some as the toughest in the world. >> Read the Full Article
United Nations Meet to Seek Safer Ways to Kill Insect Pests
A U.N. meeting this week will seek new ways to kill mosquitoes and termites as part of a plan to bolster a 2004 ban on use of a "dirty dozen" toxic chemicals. Some pesticides on the blacklist of 12 industrial toxins are still in use to keep humanity's worst insect foes at bay even though they have been blamed for deaths, cancers or birth defects in humans and animals. >> Read the Full Article
Hybrid Catfish Nears Commercial Use
Like any farmer, catfish growers have a taste for higher yields. Now after three decades of research, a hybrid catfish developed at Auburn University may satisfy that appetite for profit. There are other hybrids in the ponds -- strains of catfish crossed naturally -- but Auburn's hybrid catfish is the first manually fertilized for commercial use, according to its developers. >> Read the Full Article
Government Researchers Locate Concentration of Lost Fishing Nets
Researchers using satellites and aircraft have located a concentration of lost or abandoned fishing nets that drift through the oceans posing a danger to fish and other wildlife. >> Read the Full Article
Exploding Toads May Have Been Pecked by Birds for Their Livers, Veterinarian Says
What's making toads puff up and explode in northern Europe? More than 1,000 toad corpses have been found at a pond in an upscale neighborhood in Hamburg and over the border in Denmark after bloating and bursting. >> Read the Full Article
Gorilla Gossip Scotched by Ugandan Reappearance
A family of "missing" gorillas reappeared in Uganda, scotching speculation in the national media that they had been lured to neighbouring Rwanda. Ugandan wildlife officials have consistently scoffed at the flurry of conspiracy theories in the Ugandan national press, which accused Rwanda of spiriting the apes away to beef up its tourist trade. >> Read the Full Article
Zoo Reverses Vasectomy on Bush Dog
Three yapping, cuddly South American bush dog pups at the Saint Louis Zoo are making fertility history among wild canids, with implications for the rest of the animal world. >> Read the Full Article