Get your hands dirty for health
Call to restore urban biodiversity, post-pandemicCredit: Flinders University Billions of people using the Earth's resources and changing or destroying ecosystems ...
Tag: Ecology/Environment
Fluorocarbon bonds are no match for light-powered nanocatalyst
Rice U. lab unveils catalyst that can break problematic C-F bondsCredit: H. Robatjazi/Rice University HOUSTON -- (June 22, 2020) -- ...
Like oil and water
Pitt ChemE professor receives $110k ACS PRF grant for novel 3D-printed oil-water separating membrane for gas and petroleum industryCredit: University ...
Are protected areas effective at maintaining large carnivore populations?
Credit: Daniel Burgas-Riera A recent study, led by the University of Helsinki, used a novel combination of statistical methods and ...
300-million-year-old fish resembles a sturgeon but took a different evolutionary path
Tanyrhinichthys mcallisteri recasts the notion of what it means to be a 'primitive' vertebrate, according to Penn paleontologists Lauren Sallan ...
Undergraduate student discovers 18 new species of aquatic beetle in South America
Credit: Andrew Smith LAWRENCE -- It would be striking for a seasoned entomologist with decades of fieldwork to discover such ...
Artificial night sky poses serious threat to coastal species
Credit: John Spicer, University of Plymouth The artificial lighting which lines the world's coastlines could be having a significant impact ...
Parallel evolution in three-spined sticklebacks
What happens in the Eastern Pacific, stays in the Eastern PacificCredit: Petri Kuokka A group of researchers from the University ...
Protecting natural forest in oil palm plantations crucial for conservation
Forest conservation areas in oil palm plantations play a vital role in storing carbon and boosting rainforest biodiversity, a new ...
A new social role for echolocation in bats that hunt together
Credit: Irene Mendez Cruz Searching for food at night can be tricky. To find prey in the dark, bats use ...
Human activity on rivers outpaces, compounds effects of climate change
Credit: Photo courtesy Jim Best CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The livelihoods of millions of people living along the world's biggest river ...
Fungal pathogen disables plant defense mechanism
The white mold fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum detoxifies the mustard oil bomb in plants of the cabbage familyCredit: Anna Schroll Cabbage ...
Wind beneath their wings: Albatrosses fine-tuned to wind conditions
Credit: University of Liverpool A new study of albatrosses has found that wind plays a bigger role in their decision ...
New Argentine fossils uncover history of celebrated conifer group
Credit: Gabriella Rossetto-Harris, Penn State Newly unearthed, surprisingly well-preserved conifer fossils from Patagonia, Argentina, show that an endangered and celebrated ...