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Credit: colorbox Forests are potent carbon sinks, but also the oceans' seagrasses can store enormous amounts of carbon. A little bay in Denmark stores a...

Conservation and logging groups in Central and West Africa are failing to fully incorporate local concerns into management, marginalizing the livelihoods of the local population,...

Credit: Etienne Laliberté MONTREAL, Jan. 12, 2017 - Some of the Earth's ecosystems host a disproportionately high number of plant species, and infertile shrublands in...

Credit: Elena Zhukova for UCOP UC Santa Barbara marine biologist and conservation ecologist Benjamin Halpern is among 10 recipients of a 2017 Peter Benchley Ocean...

Credit: Su Kim/Northwest Fisheries Science Center The acidification of the ocean expected as seawater absorbs increasing amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will reverberate...

Credit: Emily Darling / WCS New York (January 12, 2017) - Fishing is fundamentally altering the food chain in coral reefs and putting dual pressures...

New York, NY (Jan. 12, 2017) - The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on supporting innovative early career researchers, named 16...

New York, NY & Wayne, NJ (January 12, 2017)--Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian and the Life Raft Group (LRG), a patient advocacy organization specializing in...

Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. - The anxiety many men experience after being diagnosed with prostate cancer may lead them to choose potentially unnecessary...

SALT LAKE CITY - New research from scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah uncovered distinct types of tumors within small...

Boston, MA -- Prostate cancer (PC) is the second leading cause of male cancer death in the United States with an estimated 26,000 deaths in...

Cancer cells love glucose, the simple sugar the body uses for energy, so a high-fat, low-carb diet should starve them, right? Not so fast. Research...

Although they look less like cigarettes than first-generation e-cigarettes, a new study found that the newer generation e-cigarette vape pens (also known as vaporizers) stimulate...

Loading video... Credit: Mike Gil/UC Davis If there was a top-rated restaurant in a dangerous part of the city, chances are some brave souls would...

Credit: Michael Bernkopf/Vetmeduni Vienna Cases of newborn "shaking piglets" have been reported since the 1920s both in Europe and abroad. Yet an additional cause for...