Tag: Ecology/Environment

Testicular cells survive cryopreservation after dissociationCredit: Ex-situ Iberian Lynx Program A research team at the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo ...

Bison in northern Yellowstone proving to be too much of a good thing

Credit: Bob Beschta, OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Increasing numbers of bison in Yellowstone National Park in recent years have become ...

‘Tequila’ powered biofuels more efficient than corn or sugar

Ethanol from agave could be used for transport fuel and hand sanitizerCredit: University of Sydney The agave plant used to ...

Untangling the social lives of spiders

Credit: Noa Pinter-Wollman The idea of a complex spider society--in which thousands of spiders live, hunt, and raise their young ...

New pathogen threatens fennel yield in Italy

Credit: Dalia Aiello A new fennel fungal disease caused by a new genus and species - Ochraceocephala foeniculi, was observed ...

Water pressure: Ancient aquatic crocs evolved, enlarged to avoid freezing

Study pinpoints minimum survivable size of Jurassic crocodilesCredit: Steve Castillo / Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution / Scott Schrage ...

Well-engineered ‘watercourts’ stored live fish, fueling Florida’s Calusa kingdom

Credit: Merald Clark/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The mighty Calusa ruled South Florida for centuries, wielding military power, trading and ...

Ecosystem services are not constrained by borders

Study evaluates and quantifies ecosystem service flowsCredit: Janina Kleemann What do chocolate, migratory birds, flood control and pandas have in ...

Open Access multidisciplinary journal, All Life, launches

Taylor & Francis tackles the UN's Sustainable Development GoalsCredit: Taylor & Francis Launching today, a new multidisciplinary Open Access journal ...

Scientists predict the size of plastics animals can eat

March 27, 2020

New equation could help determine risk of plastics to any species -- and amount of plastic entering food chainsCredit: Cardiff ...

Animals keep viruses in the sea in balance

March 27, 2020

Credit: NIOZ A variety of sea animals can take up virus particles while filtering seawater for oxygen and food. Sponges ...

Completely new antibiotic resistance gene has spread unnoticed to several pathogens

March 27, 2020

Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg Aminoglycoside antibiotics are critically important for treating several types of infections with multi-resistant bacteria. A ...

How to identify factors affecting COVID-19 transmission

March 26, 2020

Engineers at Stanford describe potential transmission pathways of COVID-19 and their implications.Credit: NIAID-RML Much remains unknown about how SARS-CoV-2, the ...

Wildfire perceptions largely positive after hiking in a burned landscape