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The Royal Government’s Council of Ministers recently declared the creation of the Seima Protection Forest, which covers more than 1,100 square miles along Cambodia’s eastern border with Vietnam. ...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |The findings, to be published the week of Sept. 14 in an online early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveal that 48 out of 53 bird species studied in Californi...
Life Sciences |The number of large-diameter trees in the park declined 24 percent between the 1930s and 1990s. U.S. Geological Survey and University of Washington scientists compared the earliest records of large-di...
Agricultural and Forestry Science |The finding, by researchers at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Ohio's Miami University, appears in the June issue of the journal Global Change Biology."When...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |The decline of amphibian populations worldwide has been documented primarily in frogs, but salamander populations also appear to have plummeted, according to a new study by University of California, B...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |The report counted 42,000 black-shanked douc langurs along with 2,500 yellow-cheeked crested gibbons in Cambodia’s Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area, an estimate that represents the largest known p...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |Carcasses of Southern Yellow-legged Frogs in Sixty Lake Basin in Sierra Nevada, California. The frogs died of chytridiomycosis, an amphibian disease caused by a particularly virulent fungus. (Vance Vr...
Life Sciences |Bears that steal human food sources are just as likely to form these habits on their own or pick them up from unrelated, “bad influence” bears.The study, which examines the role of genetic rel...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |Ranging from pale blond to almost black, the hair is filed in a chest freezer where the temperature is minus-77.8 degrees. Some of the tufts are almost 25 years old.The hair will head to Canad...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |The dramatic decline of the mountain yellow-legged frog over the past several decades has been attributed to the introduction of non-native predatory fish in some areas and to chytridiomycosis, a quic...
Life Sciences |In a word, mainly a headache. "Anyone who has a digital camera has the problem that they have more photos than they can possibly navigate," says Steve Seitz, associate professor of c...
Information Technology |"The debate falls into two camps," said C. Page Chamberlain, professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University. "One is that the mountains rose from sea level in...
Earth Sciences |Climate change, human factors likely culprits The tiny rabbit-like American pika, an animal species considered to be one of the best canaries in a coal mine for detecting gl...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |Sierra Nevada waters usually free of troublesome bacteria except in high use areas Data collected by experts from the UC Davis School of Medicine have revealed that except...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |A new study of Californias southern Sierra Nevada range by a University of Colorado at Boulder research team has located a massive body of rock that sank into Earths mantle some ...
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