Rutgers Professor Joan Bennett elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Plant biologist studies the genetics and physiology of thread-like fungiCredit: Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University Joan W. Bennett, a Distinguished Professor of ...
Tag: Ecology/Environment
Research gives trees an edge in landfill clean-up
Credit: Paul Manley, Missouri University of Science and Technology; used with permission Rhinelander, Wis., April 28, 2021-- A research team ...
Human antibiotic use threatens endangered wild chimpanzees
Antimicrobial resistant bacteria getting into watershedCredit: Thomas Gillespie It's well established that infectious disease is the greatest threat to the ...
Bone collagen of fish shows individual history of migration and feeding habits
Credit: Yoshikazu Kato Collagen is a protein found widely in almost all cells of animals, and scientifically can be used ...
NYU Environmental Studies Professor Sonali Shukla McDermid named Carnegie Fellow
Credit: Mathew McDermid New York University's Sonali Shukla McDermid has been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, one of 26 selected ...
Scientists don spacesuits to explore Hawaiian lava tubes as if they were on Mars
Credit: HI-SEAS MUNICH -- Imagine trying to pick up a pebble or scrape microbes off a cave wall in a ...
The growing promise of community-based monitoring and citizen science
Credit: Kayla Farmer Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called "citizen science") has exploded in popularity, aided both by ...
Drones provide bird’s eye view of how turbulent tidal flows affect seabird foraging habits
Credit: Lilian Lieber, Queen's University Belfast The foraging behaviour of seabirds is dramatically affected by turbulence caused by natural coastal ...
New edition provides updates on fungicides used to control turfgrass diseases
Credit: APS PRESS A Practical Guide to Turfgrass Fungicides, Second Edition, is a current, comprehensive, and hands-on resource focused specifically ...
Digital advisory services for smallholder families in Africa and Asia
Credit: © Grameen Foundation Smallholders produce two thirds of all food worldwide. Yet the majority of these approximately 500 million ...
Canola growth environments and genetics shape their seed microbiomes
Credit: Zayda Morales Moreira Just as humans receive the first members of their microbiomes from their mothers, seeds may harbor ...
Marine biodiversity: Enormous variety of animal life in the deep sea revealed
Credit: UoC / Hartmut Arndt Ecologists at the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology have for the first time demonstrated ...
UMD studies mangrove genetic diversity in Africa to conserve centers of biodiversity
Collaborative study shows how currents of the Western Indian Ocean create both distinct and related populations for conservationCredit: University of ...
Limited value of tree plantations for biodiversity conservation
Plantations are home to significantly less beetles than old-growth forests.Credit: J. C. Lobo / Adobe Stock In light of declining ...
Loss of fauna in tropical forests impedes achieving Sustainable Development Goals
Credit: Photo by Torsten Krause (LUCSUS) The current loss of biological diversity is unprecedented and species extinctions exceed the estimated ...
Value from sewage? New technology makes pig farming more environmentally friendly
Credit: Okinawa Prefecture Livestock and Grassland Research Center. Anyone who lives in Okinawa, a subtropical island in Japan, has an ...
Following nature’s cue, researchers build successful, sustainable industrial networks
Structural characteristic of food webs provide guidelines for setting up industrial networksCredit: Texas A&M University College of Engineering By translating ...
Could corals use sound to communicate?
New evidence suggests corals may have genes involved in receiving or emitting soundCredit: Camila Rimoldi Ibanez and James Hawker, South ...
Researcher questions whether powered flight appeared on non-avialan dinosaurs
Francisco Serrano, from University of Malaga, refutes this conclusion published in 2020 in the absence of scientific evidenceCredit: F.J. Serrano. ...
Cell study suggests pesticide exposure may increase COVID-19 susceptibility
Inflammation-induced mechanism might be linked with higher infection risk for veterans and people with metabolic disordersCredit: Saurabh Chatterjee, PhD, University ...
