Tag: Ecology/Environment

October 18, 2019

Credit: Toby Pennington Amazon deforestation could be slowed by planting bean trees that would keep soils fertile and help smallholders ...

Whole genome sequencing could help save pumas from inbreeding

October 18, 2019

Credit: Sebastian Kennerknecht When students at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) found a dead mule deer on campus, ...

Newly discovered virus infects bald eagles across America

October 18, 2019

Credit: UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers have discovered a previously unknown virus infecting nearly a third of America's bald eagle ...

Cod or haddock? UMass Amherst study looks at ‘name bias’ and fisheries sustainability

Grad student aims to promote tasty alternatives to overfished codCredit: UMass Amherst Could you taste the difference between cod and ...

First report of cotton blue disease in the United States

Credit: Kathy Lawrence and Auburn University St. Paul, MN (October, 2019)--In August 2017, Kathy S. Lawrence, a plant pathologist at ...

Next-generation sequencing used to identify cotton blue disease in the United States

Credit: Plant Management Network and Judith K. Brown St. Paul, MN (October, 2019)--Cotton blue disease, caused by Cotton leafroll dwarf ...

Stranded whales detected from space

Credit: Maxar Technologies 2019 A new technique for analysing satellite images may help scientists detect and count stranded whales from ...

Industrial melanism linked to same gene in 3 moth species

Credit: Arjen van't Hof The rise of dark forms of many species of moth in heavily polluted areas of 19th ...

Museums put ancient DNA to work for wildlife

Old museum specimens are giving researchers fresh insights into endangered speciesCredit: Jay Yocis/UC Creative Services Scientists who are trying to ...

Old friends and new enemies: How evolutionary history can predict insect invader impacts

Credit: Jeff Garnas/University of New Hampshire About 450 nonnative, plant-eating insect species live in North American forests. Most of these ...

Study helps pinpoint what makes species vulnerable to environmental change

Credit: (Photo by Umesh Srinivasan, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) The fabled use of canaries in coal ...

First Genome of Spotted Lanternfly Built from a Single Insect

Credit: ARS-USDA HILO, HAWAII, October 16, 2019--Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, in cooperation with Pacific Biosciences and Penn State University, ...

UNH researchers find climate change increases risk of mercury contamination

Credit: Credit: Florencia Fahnestock/UNH DURHAM, N.H.--As global temperatures continue to rise, the thawing of permafrost in Arctic areas is being ...

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