UK consortium to combat serious threat to plant health
Credit: Dr. Steven White (CEH) https://www.ceh.ac.uk/staff/steven-white The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Right Honourable Lord Henley, has announced funding for a ...
Tag: Ecology/Environment
New approach helps mitigating the effect of climate change on sea turtles
Credit: Swansea University New research has reported effective conservation strategies that can mitigate the impacts of climate warming on sea ...
New butterfly named for pioneering 17th-century entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian
Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- More than two centuries before initiatives to increase the number ...
229 new species described by the California Academy of Sciences in 2018
From fish to flowering plants and seahorses to snakes -- spanning five continents and three oceans -- these new discoveries ...
People and plants: Working together for the planet
Plants, People, Planet, a new cross-disciplinary Open Access journal, launches todayCredit: Plants, People, Planet / Tetsuo Wada / Aflo. We ...
Montana State-led project to prevent bat-borne diseases wins $10 million grant
Credit: Shirley Plowright BOZEMAN -- In an effort to prevent some of the world's most lethal diseases, an international research ...
Study solves puzzle of snail and slug feeding preferences
Credit: Mick Hanley/University of Plymouth Gardeners have puzzled for years as to why some seedlings are more commonly eaten by ...
Can rice filter water from ag fields?
Research considers pesticide-cleansing properties of rice plantsCredit: Matt Moore Rice is a staple food crop of 20 percent of the ...
A bastard seal from the past reveals the potential for human hybrids
Almost ninety years ago on a freezing January morning, the keepers of the Stockholm Zoo in Sweden discovered a dead ...
