The study, led by scientists at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, is the first to document the unusual behavior of estrogens in wastewater lagoons….
However, between 50,000 and 45,000 years ago, they all vanished. Although recent studies indicate human colonization as a potential cause of their extinction,…
Quito, Ecuador, is not considered a global leader by most measures. But there is one way in which Quito is at the forefront of metropolises worldwide: in…
Blue-green algae is not your average pond scum – rather than consisting of plant-like organisms, blue-green algae actually are cyanobacteria, and some species…
Traveling the western U.S. state of Nevada in the 1860s, a young American writer named Mark Twain heard a “world of talk” about the beauty of Lake Tahoe and so…
But a new study by researchers at Duke and Oregon State universities finds that leaving forests intact so they can continue to store carbon dioxide and keep it…
Funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) the MoMo – project (Integrated Water Resource Management in Central Asia: Model region Mongolia…
How families in developing countries use their cookstoves has a big effect on emissions from those stoves, and laboratory emission tests don't accurately…
“It's the kind of thing that sends a chill,” said Mark Rigali, manager of the geochemistry group at Sandia. “We've helped really make a difference in the…
They're tiny creatures with glossy, chocolate-brown hair, out-sized ears and wings. They gobble mosquitoes and other insect pests during the summer and…
Their pictures and other observations are reported in the current issue of Oryx, The International Journal of Conservation. The rare rabbit was first…
That’s good news for the continued success of the Atlantic sea scallop fishery, a model of effective collaboration among scientists, resource managers, and…
A study by a researcher at Southern Illinois University Carbondale shows these two phenomena may be related, tied together by chemistry and climate change…
This critically endangered species faces threats that include egg poaching and human fishing practices. Now, Drexel University researchers have found that the…
The team's findings, published in Conservation Biology, reveal how a species can be inadvertently carried by submersibles to new areas, with potentially…
Most people are fascinated by the colorful and exotic coral reefs, which form habitats with probably the largest biodiversity. But human civilisation is the…
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