Tag: Ecology/Environment

Knowledge may help fine-tune conservation messagesCredit: Photo by Marie Lehmann. Ithaca, NY--Cross-referencing a decade of Google searches and citizen science ...

Credit: The Sea Lab at Dauphin Island Dr. Kelly Dorgan of The Sea Lab at Dauphin Island and the University ...

Credit: Bruno Basso Farmers can't predict their annual corn harvest with certainty, but with the help of new research from ...

Credit: Sarah Schanz/Indiana University Geologic time is supposed to be slow, and the most solid object should be bedrock. But ...

Credit: Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA Athens, Ga. - In most colonies, ants work in service of a single reproductive queen, but ...

The goal is to conserve habitat and protect migratory birdsCredit: Cameron Rognan/Cornell Lab of Ornithology Ottawa, ON, and Ithaca, NY-- ...

The scientific community has long held an understanding about the effect of temperature on sperm production in mammals, but this ...

Tokyo - The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) attempted from 2000 to 2015 produced mixed and debatable results. But ...

Total number of sharks and rays caught annually by small-scale fisheries in the South West Indian Ocean is estimated to ...

In years when winter conditions are especially harsh, birds that depend on conifer seeds for food are sometimes forced to ...

New book examines policymaking 'flaws' following emotional events More than a decade's worth of research has revealed how politicians manipulate ...

Study finds shallow bodies of water were probably more suitable for Earth's first life forms Primitive ponds may have provided ...

Credit: University of Stirling Substituting fishmeal in aquaculture feeds with plant ingredients may not be as beneficial for the environment ...

Credit: Jennifer Smith In coral reef ecosystems, amid stony corals, fronds of algae and schools of fish, microorganisms are essential ...

Enzyme MHETase decodedCredit: Martin Künsting/HZB Plastics are excellent materials: extremely versatile and almost eternally durable. But this is also exactly ...

Publishing in the journal Science, scientists propose a bold new target that would stave off biodiversity lossCredit: Kyle de Nobrega ...

Imaging and 3D structuring software helps Scripps researchers observe coral reef changes in Palmyra AtollCredit: 100 Island Challenge Researchers at ...

A study published online by the journal Science, looked into why the global commitment towards the expansion of protected areas ...

The discovery highlights the urgent need of modern DNA tools when studying rapidly declining animal groups like amphibiansCredit: Dr Robert ...

DNA sequences from Indonesia and New Guinea reveal new branches of the Denisovan family treeCredit: © Isabella Apriyana The findings ...