Major discovery helps explain coral bleaching
Credit: Nils Rädecker Corals, like all animals, must eat to live. The problem is that most corals grow in tropical ...
Tag: Ecology/Environment
The surprises of color evolution
Credit: Casper van der Kooi / University of Groningen Nature is full of colour. For flowers, displaying colour is primarily ...
Study reveals a diverse cephalopod fauna in the canary current large marine ecosystem
A review of cephalopods (phylum: mollusca) of the canary current large marine ecosystemCredit: Luna et al. An extensive review of ...
Scientists show impact of human activity on bird species
Credit: Chris Gomersall (rspb-images.com) Scientists have shown where bird species would exist in the absence of human activity under research ...
Dramatic increase in microplastics in seagrass soil since the 1970s
Credit: Photo: Miguel Ángel Mateo, Diego Moreno Large-scale production of vegetables and fruit in Spain with intensive plastic consumption in ...
Nuclear war could trigger big El Niño and decrease seafood
Unprecedented warming in equatorial Pacific Ocean could last up to seven yearsCredit: Joshua Coupe A nuclear war could trigger an ...
Shift in caribou movements may be tied to human activity
Geologists track caribou using antlers, isotopesCredit: Colleen Kelley/UC Creative Human activities might have shifted the movement of caribou in and ...
Rediscovery of the ‘extinct’ Pinatubo volcano mouse
A small mouse rediscovered on a volcano that erupted 30 years ago provides hope for wildlife conservation in the PhilippinesCredit: ...
Chimpanzee friends fight together to battle rivals
Strong social bonds increase the willingness to join others in battleCredit: Liran Samuni, Taï Chimpanzee Project Chimpanzees, one of the ...
Methods in studying cycad leaf nutrition found to be inconsistent and incomplete
Credit: University of Guam Collective research to date regarding nutrients found in the leaves of contemporary cycad species has been ...
Stanford: forecasting coastal water quality
Stanford researchers develop a new way to forecast beach water qualityCredit: Meghan Shea Less than two days of water quality ...
A large number of gray whales are starving and dying in the eastern North Pacific
It is now the third year that gray whales have been found in very poor condition or dead in large ...
Combined river flows could send up to 3 billion microplastics a day into the Bay of Bengal
Credit: Photo by Sara Hylton, National Geographic. Taken on assignment for National Geographic's The Ganges River - with the combined ...
Seeds transfer their microbes to the next generation
Credit: Stockholm University Scientists have been pondering if the microbiome of plants is due to nature or nurture. Research at ...
Scientists discover how the potentially oldest coral reefs in the Mediterranean developed
Credit: ICM-CSIC, University of Southampton A new study from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC, Spain) and the National ...
California harbor porpoises rebound after coastal gillnetting stopped
Bycatch of protected marine mammals took greater toll than previously realizedCredit: Bill Keener/The Marine Mammal Center Harbor porpoises have rebounded ...
Novel effector biology research provides insights into devastating citrus greening disease
Credit: Kelley J. Clark, Zhiqian Pang, Jessica Trinh, Nian Wang, and Wenbo Ma Citrus greening disease, also known as Huanglongbing ...
Brazilian dam collapse could have been predicted with right monitoring technology
Credit: Google Earth One of Brazil's worst environmental disasters - a dam collapse that also killed more than 200 people ...
Climate-related species extinction possibly mitigated by newly discovered effect
According to a new study, future climate-related species extinction could be less severe than predictions based only on the current ...
Fish sex organs boosted under high-CO2
Credit: Southern Seas Ecology Laborator Research from the University of Adelaide has found that some species of fish will have ...
