Thursday 21, 10 2004
Ken Balcomb, lead Earthwatch researcher on Orca, reports that two new calves have been born
Monday 18, 10 2004
Winner of the 2004 Aviva/Earthwatch Award for Climate Change Research
Last week the UK governments leading scientist, Professor Sir David King, warned that an irreversible climate disaster was imminent. If carbon dioxide levels continue to rise, the Greenland ice cap will melt and global sea levels will rise by 6-7m in as little as sixty years time, leaving much of Britain underwater. What is the fate of our planet if our climate changes and what, can a songbird do to help?
Tuesday 12, 10 2004
Earthwatch Institute, the international environmental charity, is celebrating this week after winning a prestigious British Archaeological Award. Earthwatch was recognised as "best sponsor of archaeology" for its unceasing 12 years of support for the Roman Fort on Tyne excavation project which operates in South Shields, on the river Tyne in Northeast England.
Monday 23, 08 2004
Earthwatch Institute Europe, the international environmental charity, has launched its Threatened Species Appeal. The money raised will fund urgent conservation work to save the southern river otter and other animals on the brink of extinction.
Tuesday 17, 08 2004
A decade-long botanical study, carried out by scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and assisted by more than three hundred Earthwatch volunteers in the highland forests of western Cameroon, has remarkably discovered fifty endemic plant and fungi species and varieties new to science, it was announced today.
Monday 24, 05 2004
Earthwatch, the international environmental charity, today highlights its great success in local community involvement in the protection of turtles in light of the recently published WWF report, 'Money talks: Economic Aspects of Marine Turtle Use and Conservation'.
Thursday 20, 05 2004
Earthwatch, the international environmental charity, and principal scientist Dr. Chris Joyce are celebrating their success in securing a £178k Darwin Initiative grant. As a result, Earthwatch and Dr Joyce will be expanding their ongoing research project in the coastal wetlands of Estonia, one of the new EU Accession States.
Tuesday 18, 05 2004
Dr Chris Newman, the leading scientist on the Earthwatch Mammals of Wytham Woods project, is celebrating the success of the recent badger census, which took place in Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire, this month. Volunteers from around the county turned up in their droves to show their support.
Monday 17, 05 2004
How much do you know about desertification? This summer the United Nations and Earthwatch, the international environmental charity, would like to give you the opportunity to find out more.
Monday 26, 04 2004
Scientists from Earthwatch, the international environmental organisation, believe that the decline of local shark fisheries on Madagascar's northwest coast could mark the much needed transition from shark consumption to conservation in the region.
Saturday 22, 05 2004
Earthwatch scientist Dr. Alison Leslie has come to the rescue of a four-metre-long Nile crocodile whose fearlessness of humans resulted in it lunging at visitors at the Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.
Friday 02, 04 2004
Peter the Penguin, who shot to fame after his amazing long distance swim from Port Elizabeth to Robben Island following the Treasure oil spill of 2000, has been spotted by members of an Earthwatch expedition team for the first time in four years.