Animal Ecology

Why You Will Eat Less in the Future (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)

24 Jul 2008

With food and fuel costs soaring and the financial costs of global warming becoming reality, a new cure-all prescription has emerged: The average American should eat less.

New and improved Lake Ruth (The Western Courier)

23 Jul 2008

Lake Ruth has once again been restored to its picturesque state - complete with a fountain - thanks to the dredging efforts undertaken by Western Illinois University Physical Plant staff earlier this summer. But the question that might be in the minds of many - "Why is the water green?" - has an easy answer.

Americans must diet to save their economy (New Scientist)

23 Jul 2008

Ecologists calculate that a change in diet could bring massive energy savings and decrease the pressure on the environment