Church, couch, couple: Social psychological connections between people and physical space
Washington, DC - Societies and people have reshaped the world many times over. From building cities and communities that live ...
Tag: Ecology/Environment
Exposure to airborne metal pollution associated with increased risk of mortality
Credit: S. Leblond & C. Meyer. Although there is ample evidence that air pollution--specifically airborne particulate matter--is associated with an ...
Edible insects? Lab-grown meat? The real future food is lab-grown insect meat
Cultured insect tissue could combine the planet-saving best of insect farming, GM livestock, labriculture and plant-based meat substitutes Livestock farming ...
Thinning forests, prescribed fire before drought reduced tree loss
Treatments may reduce loss in future droughts and bark beetle epidemicsCredit: USDA Forest Service Thinning forests and conducting prescribed burns ...
Some songbird nests are especially vulnerable to magpie predation
A new study has revealed a range of factors that cause a variation in predation by magpies on farmland songbirds. ...
Using nature to adapt to climate change
As the effects of a changing climate are felt with growing intensity, researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders are turning their attention ...
Study could improve fire monitoring in Brazilian savana
With the aim of enhancing the quality of Brazilian space research output, scientists investigated the accuracy of different satellite data ...
Ocean and space exploration blend at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography
Credit: Erin Ranney/Ocean Exploration Trust KINGSTON, R.I. -- May 29, 2019 -- Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from ...
‘Fettuccine’ may be most obvious sign of life on Mars, researchers report
Credit: Photo by Tom Murphy CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A rover scanning the surface of Mars for evidence of life might ...
More safe havens for native plants and animals needed in New South Wales’ west
Credit: Wikimedia CC/Brisbane City Council Location matters for species struggling to survive under a changing climate. A new study led ...
Let’s clear the air
New paper details outcomes from long-term environmental justice partnership in east endCredit: Harold Rickenbacker PITTSBURGH (May 29, 2019) -- For ...
Coral reefs can’t return from acid trip
A new study published today in Nature Climate Change finds coral reefs are under threat from ocean acidification. The study ...
Striped maple trees often change sexes, with females more likely to die
Rutgers study shows how switching sexes could threaten populationsCredit: Jennifer Blake-Mahmud Although pollen has covered cars for weeks and allergy ...
Chimps caught crabbing
Could some chimpanzees' crustacean crave yield clues about human evolution?Credit: Kyoto University/Kathelijne Koops Kyoto, Japan -- Why do we fish? ...
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