Tag: Ecology/Environment

May 30, 2019

Cultured insect tissue could combine the planet-saving best of insect farming, GM livestock, labriculture and plant-based meat substitutes Livestock farming ...

Thinning forests, prescribed fire before drought reduced tree loss

Treatments may reduce loss in future droughts and bark beetle epidemicsCredit: USDA Forest Service Thinning forests and conducting prescribed burns ...

Some songbird nests are especially vulnerable to magpie predation

A new study has revealed a range of factors that cause a variation in predation by magpies on farmland songbirds. ...

Using nature to adapt to climate change

As the effects of a changing climate are felt with growing intensity, researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders are turning their attention ...

Study could improve fire monitoring in Brazilian savana

With the aim of enhancing the quality of Brazilian space research output, scientists investigated the accuracy of different satellite data ...

Ocean and space exploration blend at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography

Credit: Erin Ranney/Ocean Exploration Trust KINGSTON, R.I. -- May 29, 2019 -- Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from ...

‘Fettuccine’ may be most obvious sign of life on Mars, researchers report

Credit: Photo by Tom Murphy CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A rover scanning the surface of Mars for evidence of life might ...

More safe havens for native plants and animals needed in New South Wales’ west

Credit: Wikimedia CC/Brisbane City Council Location matters for species struggling to survive under a changing climate. A new study led ...

Let’s clear the air

New paper details outcomes from long-term environmental justice partnership in east endCredit: Harold Rickenbacker PITTSBURGH (May 29, 2019) -- For ...

Coral reefs can’t return from acid trip

A new study published today in Nature Climate Change finds coral reefs are under threat from ocean acidification. The study ...

Striped maple trees often change sexes, with females more likely to die

Rutgers study shows how switching sexes could threaten populationsCredit: Jennifer Blake-Mahmud Although pollen has covered cars for weeks and allergy ...

Chimps caught crabbing

Could some chimpanzees' crustacean crave yield clues about human evolution?Credit: Kyoto University/Kathelijne Koops Kyoto, Japan -- Why do we fish? ...

Climate driving new right whale movement

Scientists discover that rapid warming in the gulf of maine's depths is changing food availability and increasing risk to one ...

Palm oil: Down from the conservation barricades and out of the rhetorical trenches

Oil palm is alternatively seen as a gift from god or a crime against humanity; according to science, it is ...

Studying the evolution of oceans — grant

Credit: Virginia Tech Frank O. Aylward, an assistant professor with the Department of Biological Sciences in the Virginia Tech College ...

Fossil zooplankton indicate that marine ecosystems have entered the Anthropocene

Researchers publish a new global study in NatureCredit: Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; C. ...

Lithuanian scientists created bioplastic for food packaging which degrades in a couple of years

Credit: KTU / Juste Suminaite Group of scientists at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). Lithuania have created biodegradable plastic, which ...

Study highlights vulnerability of rural coast to sea-level rise