Tag: Ecology/Environment

Credit: Photo by Ben Abbott EAST LANSING, Mich. - Pictures of the earth's water cycle used in education and research ...

How to protect corals facing climate change

Conserving a wide range of coral habitats is the best strategyCredit: Michelle Stuart/Rutgers University-New Brunswick The best way to protect ...

Scientists alarmed by bark beetle boom

Credit: Rainer Simonis / Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald "Bark beetles lay waste to forests" - "Climate change sends beetles into overdrive" ...

Well-meaning climate measures can make matters worse

Lifestyle changes can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and help protect nature. While some actions offer great potential, some aren't ...

Amphibians infected by ranavirus found in Atlantic rain forest

June 28, 2019

Ranavirus is linked to amphibian decline or extinction in other parts of the world, but in Brazil, it has been ...

Sea slugs use algae’s bacterial ‘weapons factory’ in three-way symbiotic relationship

Credit: Mohamed Donia, Princeton University Delicate yet voracious, the sea slug Elysia rufescens grazes cow-like on bright green tufts of ...

NJIT conducts the largest-ever simulation of the Deepwater Horizon spill

Credit: NJIT In a 600-ft.-long saltwater wave tank on the coast of New Jersey, a team of New Jersey Institute ...

Model predicts bat species with the potential to spread deadly Nipah virus in India

Findings can help guide surveillance and prevent deadly outbreaksCredit: Rajib Islam (Millbrook, NY) Since its discovery in 1999, Nipah virus ...

Insects need empathy

Immediate, science-based community action can mitigate insect declineCredit: Julia Harencar This year, German environmentalists collected 1.75 million signatures for a ...

Rethink environmental regulations in Africa, study urges

Credit: McKenzie Johnson, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Conflict over resource extraction is rampant in sub-Saharan Africa, with small-scale ...

Space station mold survives high doses of ionizing radiation

New research presented at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference in Bellevue, Wa. BELLEVUE, WA--The International Space Station, like all human ...

Scientists discover how plants breathe — and how humans shaped their ‘lungs’

Scientists have discovered how plants create networks of air channels -- the lungs of the leaf -- to transport carbon ...

Corals can survive in acidified ocean conditions, but have lower density skeletons

Two-year transplantation experiment near a natural low-pH submarine spring evaluated growth and physiological response of different coral species to ocean ...

Researchers find that probiotic bacteria reduces the impact of white-nose syndrome in bats

Credit: Virginia Tech It is widely accepted that probiotic bacteria are beneficial to human health, but what if they could ...

Reining in the ecological effects of free-roaming horses

Free-roaming horses are an icon of the American West, frequently appearing in art and media as exemplars of the spirited ...

Is a great iron fertilization experiment already underway?

Credit: University of South Florida ST. PETERSBURG, FL - It's no secret that massive dust storms in the Saharan Desert ...

Towards a worldwide inventory of all plants

Researchers from Göttingen publish global database of regional plant lifeCredit: Ptarick Wiegelt Declining biodiversity due to man-made habitat destruction and ...

Former war refugee maps habitat for West African bird

Credit: Benedictus Freeman LAWRENCE -- Growing up in Liberia during that country's brutal 14-year civil war, Benedictus Freeman and his ...

Undercounting of agroforestry skews climate change mitigation planning and reporting

Agroforestry is overlooked in global climate change reporting systems, resulting in missed opportunities to account for a major carbon sinkCredit: ...

New study on gene editing in wildlife finds people are wary