Tag: Ecology/Environment

October 22, 2019

Credit: University of Exeter Fish may be more tolerant than previously thought to periods of low oxygen in the oceans, ...

Gift to UT Austin will advance programs in biodiversity, establish fellowship program

Credit: University of Texas at Austin A generous estate gift to The University of Texas at Austin from alumna and ...

Humpback whale population on the rise after near miss with extinction

Credit: L. Candisani/Courtesy Insituto Aqualie A population of humpback whales in the South Atlantic has rebounded from the brink of ...

Large-scale afforestation of African savannas will destroy valuable ecosystems

African scientists speak out about global plans to plant trees on their continent in order to fight climate changeCredit: Wits ...

No place like home: Species are on the move, but many have nowhere to go

Many insects moving north in response to climate change find they have nowhere to go in Britain's intensively managed landscapes, ...

UConn launches hemp testing lab in response to industry need

Credit: Sean Flynn/UConn Photo In response to a rapidly expanding commercial hemp industry driven by interest in products with CBD ...

A complex marriage arrangement: New insights and unanswered questions in plant heterostyly

Landmark review highlights recent advances and unresolved questions as part of a New Phytologist special issue celebrating Prof. Spencer Barrett.Credit: ...

Forests on the radar

Credit: Bavarian Forest National Park The quantity and diversity of plants and animals, especially insects, is decreasing, also in Germany. ...

Merger to bring the next generation of insect control to the global marketplace

Eco-friendly pheromone insect controls become feasibleCredit: Photo by Kurt Miller Photography. Riverside, Calif. -- ISCA Global, Inc. has been formed ...

California’s crashing kelp forest

How disease, warming waters, and ravenous sea urchins combined to kill the kelp and close the red abalone fisheryCredit: Peggy ...

Bean tree plan to protect Amazon

October 18, 2019

Credit: Toby Pennington Amazon deforestation could be slowed by planting bean trees that would keep soils fertile and help smallholders ...

Whole genome sequencing could help save pumas from inbreeding

October 18, 2019

Credit: Sebastian Kennerknecht When students at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) found a dead mule deer on campus, ...

Newly discovered virus infects bald eagles across America

October 18, 2019

Credit: UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers have discovered a previously unknown virus infecting nearly a third of America's bald eagle ...

Cod or haddock? UMass Amherst study looks at ‘name bias’ and fisheries sustainability

Grad student aims to promote tasty alternatives to overfished codCredit: UMass Amherst Could you taste the difference between cod and ...

First report of cotton blue disease in the United States

Credit: Kathy Lawrence and Auburn University St. Paul, MN (October, 2019)--In August 2017, Kathy S. Lawrence, a plant pathologist at ...

Next-generation sequencing used to identify cotton blue disease in the United States

Credit: Plant Management Network and Judith K. Brown St. Paul, MN (October, 2019)--Cotton blue disease, caused by Cotton leafroll dwarf ...

Stranded whales detected from space

Credit: Maxar Technologies 2019 A new technique for analysing satellite images may help scientists detect and count stranded whales from ...

Industrial melanism linked to same gene in 3 moth species

Credit: Arjen van't Hof The rise of dark forms of many species of moth in heavily polluted areas of 19th ...

Museums put ancient DNA to work for wildlife

Old museum specimens are giving researchers fresh insights into endangered speciesCredit: Jay Yocis/UC Creative Services Scientists who are trying to ...

Old friends and new enemies: How evolutionary history can predict insect invader impacts