Tag: Ecology/Environment

Credit: Rainer Simonis / Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald "Bark beetles lay waste to forests" - "Climate change sends beetles into overdrive" ...

Lifestyle changes can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and help protect nature. While some actions offer great potential, some aren't ...

Ranavirus is linked to amphibian decline or extinction in other parts of the world, but in Brazil, it has been ...

Credit: Mohamed Donia, Princeton University Delicate yet voracious, the sea slug Elysia rufescens grazes cow-like on bright green tufts of ...

Credit: NJIT In a 600-ft.-long saltwater wave tank on the coast of New Jersey, a team of New Jersey Institute ...

Findings can help guide surveillance and prevent deadly outbreaksCredit: Rajib Islam (Millbrook, NY) Since its discovery in 1999, Nipah virus ...

Immediate, science-based community action can mitigate insect declineCredit: Julia Harencar This year, German environmentalists collected 1.75 million signatures for a ...

Credit: McKenzie Johnson, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Conflict over resource extraction is rampant in sub-Saharan Africa, with small-scale ...

New research presented at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference in Bellevue, Wa. BELLEVUE, WA--The International Space Station, like all human ...

Scientists have discovered how plants create networks of air channels -- the lungs of the leaf -- to transport carbon ...

Two-year transplantation experiment near a natural low-pH submarine spring evaluated growth and physiological response of different coral species to ocean ...

Credit: Virginia Tech It is widely accepted that probiotic bacteria are beneficial to human health, but what if they could ...

Free-roaming horses are an icon of the American West, frequently appearing in art and media as exemplars of the spirited ...

Credit: University of South Florida ST. PETERSBURG, FL - It's no secret that massive dust storms in the Saharan Desert ...