Tag: Ecology/Environment

Mystery of shrinking population may be linked to eels devouring their own skeletonsCredit: Marko Freese. Thünen Institute for Fisheries Ecology ...

Credit: Pixabay The first study to investigate disease threats to wild snow leopards has detected that exposure to infections may ...

Findings could represent new drug targets for human pathogens A new study led by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...

Princeton's Rob Pringle leads a team to study predator-prey relations in the BahamasCredit: Jonathan Losos, Washington University (bottom right) and ...

A study by the FAPESP-funded Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center shows that toxins produced by young female stingrays cause more ...

Adequately resourced protected areas currently safeguard just 4-9% of terrestrial amphibians, birds, and mammalsCredit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS NEW YORK (June ...

Organisms can grow on microplastics in freshwater ecosystems. The findings of a recent study undertaken by researchers from the Leibniz-Institute ...

A research team from the universities of Trento and Utrecht found that the rotation of the Earth influences the mixing ...

The problem of cleaning up toxic polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) pollution has been solved by a new low-cost, safe and ...

The researchers say the new sensors could help detect spoilage and reduce food waste for supermarkets and consumers. One in ...

Stanford study shows how hydrothermal vents fuel massive phytoplankton blooms -- and possible hotspots for carbon storage Researchers at Stanford ...

Forest patches are opportunities to conserve wildlifeCredit: Daniel Karp/UC Davis Privately-owned, fragmented forests in Costa Rica can support as many ...

Fever may be less effective at repelling infections in cold-blooded creaturesCredit: Michael Logan Six hundred million years ago, fever appeared ...

Credit: Jason Ching/University of Washington An ample buffet of freshwater food, brought on by climate change, is altering the life ...