Tag: Ecology/Environment

Credit: Marcos Schonholz Many coral reefs are found below scuba diving depth. Because of the difficulty in visiting these parts ...

Leipzig primate researchers initiate global collaboration

First ManyPrimates study published todayCredit: Clara Dubois, Leipzig University, LFE The Wolfgang Koehler Primate Research Center is better known as ...

Bird bacteria is key to communication and mating

Credit: Nicole M. Gerlach Birds use odor to identify other birds, and researchers at Michigan State University have shown that ...

Red algae thrive despite ancestor’s massive loss of genes

Study may spawn ways to genetically alter and control red seaweedsCredit: Debashish Bhattacharya/Rutgers University-New Brunswick You'd think that losing 25 ...

Severe drought shuts down reproduction in copperhead snakes, study finds

Credit: Photo by Chuck Smith CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A long-term study of copperhead snakes in a forest near Meriden, Connecticut, ...

Migratory birds are worse off in West Africa

Research undermines widely held idea that favorable conditions in winter habitat make up for the long, arduous migratory flightsCredit: Jeroen ...

Extinction of cold-water corals on the Namibian shelf due to low oxygen contents

October 28, 2019

New study now published in the journal GeologyCredit: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen They were ...

Genetics reveal Pacific subspecies of fin whale

October 28, 2019

New findings highlight diversity of marine mammalsCredit: Paula Olson/NOAA Fisheries New genetic research has identified fin whales in the northern ...

Fire-spawned forest fungi hide out in other organisms, study finds

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- When a wildfire obliterates a forest, the first life to rise ...

Birds do not habituate to traffic noise

Traffic noise affects normal stress reactions in zebra finches and delays offspring growthCredit: Sue Anne Zollinger Noise pollution is one ...

Solving the plastics problem

Research from Texas A&M and Teysha Technologies aims to reduce plastics pollution through the development of biodegradable polymersCredit: Texas A&M ...

Public, schools are invited to join interactive broadcasts from the Antarctic

Polar scientists to share how region is responding to rapid warmingCredit: United States Antarctic Program KINGSTON, R.I., - October 25, ...

Survey completeness of a global citizen-science database of bird occurrence

October 22, 2019

Credit: Blythe Mettitt, courtesy Cornell Lab of Ornithology There are many shortfalls in knowledge of the world's biodiversity, and one ...

New portable DNA sequencer quickly and accurately diagnoses wheat viruses