Ten years ago, the fate of the fabled 270,000 acre Tejon Ranch in California’s Tehachapis Mountains became an open question when the Tejon Ranch Company started aggressively pursuing development plans. A group of conservation organizations, including Conservation Biology Institute (CBI), dedicated themselves to working with the Tejon Ranch Company to find solutions to satisfy the Ranch’s goals ...

For Christmas, my grandfather received an orange and for St Nicolas' day a new pair of shoes. When I was born, he repainted and oiled the pedals of a car his brother had originally built with scrap metal for my Mom. I loved my car! When my husband's first nephew was born, I took a woodworking class and built ...

Jellyfish could be the poster child for climate change adaptation. Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations cause oceans to warm up and their pH to drop. This affects vulnerable organisms such as coral reefs and plankton communities that either die or migrate but jellyfish can adapt to these new conditions and move in especially since overfishing and water pollution have been ...

In a warmer world, agriculture, industry, and other human water uses will compete for the same water that plants and animals need to survive. Optimizing water use is key to the future. Take rice, a staple of the human diet. As farmland is lost to urbanization and industrialization and the demand for food increases as human population continues to increase ...

Most of the publications or reports coming out with recommendations about climate change adaptation strategies for ecosystem management emphasize the need to reduce non-climate-related stresses (i.e. anthropogenic stresses such as habitat degradation or destruction, pollution, over-harvest, invasive introduction,etc). It makes perfect sense to think that ecosystems – just like our own bodies – will respond better to change when the ...