Tag: Ecology/Environment

CORVALLIS, Ore. - New research shows that recent climate change is having profound effects on wetlands across the American West ...

Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Environmental damage costs society enormous amounts of money - and often leaves future generations ...

Credit: Richard Fell, Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech Researchers from Virginia Tech were part of a collaborative $958,415 National Science ...

A new study published in Ecology Letters is using observations made by Henry David Thoreau--19th-century American naturalist, social reformer, and ...

Credit: Steve Paton, Smithsonian Tropical Research Constant pressure from hungry insects forces plants to innovate: producing new chemicals to protect ...

New model predicts where Eastern Pacific leatherback turtles travel to help protect endangered species SOLOMONS (March 14, 2019)--A new model ...

Conference: Electromicrobiology -- from electrons to ecosystems Several years ago, researchers from Aarhus discovered a curious form of electric life ...

African wild apes notice and often react to novel items in their environmentCredit: © K. Langergraber, M. Robbins, S. Lucchesi ...

Credit: Tara Tanaka TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- It's not uncommon for young adults to pitch in and help out with the ...

Credit: Idaho National Laboratory Researchers have examined a method to extract rare-earth elements from mining waste that could provide the ...

Ecological transformation in the wake of the 'Great Dying' moves scientists closer to understanding the nature of recoveryCredit: © 2019 ...

Development, habitat destruction and poaching lead to losses of specific behaviors Chimpanzees are well known for their extraordinary diversity of ...

Researchers used an interdisciplinary approach combining ecology and archaeological methods to study sea otters' past behaviorCredit: Natalie Uomini. Haslam et ...

Credit: Friederike Range/Vetmeduni Vienna Human social life would be unthinkable without cooperation. The frequency and complexity with which humans cooperate ...

Understanding the complex networks of "contact chains" between British farms, could help identify potential routes for spread of infections and ...

Study explores little-understood effects of soil exposure on subterranean coloniesCredit: Jesse Wallace, College of LAS at the University of Illinois ...

Credit: Mark Gocke Driven by the need for food, moose in western Wyoming are less likely to change their behavior ...

Professor Stefan Williams has been recognized by the IEEECredit: Lachlan Toohey/University of Sydney With a career focused on robotics and ...

Credit: Jason Riggio, UC Davis East Africa (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) contains 1,776 protected areas (including 186 "strict" ...

Rice U. researchers find new way to remove PFOS from industrial wastewaterCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (March 13, 2019) ...