Damage was catastrophic along the Gulf Coast states. Oil and tar balls washed ashore, fouling beaches and estuaries. Marine organisms, seen and unseen below…
“In the last few decades there has been an increase in the area of distribution of wild ungulates”, explains Pelayo Acevedo, lead author of the study and…
An inconceivably large proportion of the animals that live in the seas are so uncommon that it is difficult to find more than a few specimens. Committing most…
About a quarter of their automobile fuel consumption comes from sugarcane, which significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions that otherwise would be emitted…
Tips to reduce your carbon footprint frequently include buying compact florescent light bulbs, taking your own bag to the grocery store or buying local…
“Tipping points,” qualitative changes in an ecosystem that often result in reduced ecosystem health and are difficult and costly to reverse increasingly…
A census team led by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Insitut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (ICCN) in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the…
The GPS collars will provide scientists with tracking data collected during the migration of the animals between their summer ranges at the base of the Pioneer…
The blitzkrieg advance of two closely related species of mussels—the zebra and quagga—is stripping the lakes of their life-supporting algae, resulting in a…
Tiny crustaceans called copepods rule the world, at least when it comes to oceans and estuaries.The most numerous multi-cellular organisms in the seas,…
“Louisiana residents were more likely than Floridians to say their family suffered major economic setbacks because of the spill, to expect compensation by BP,…
This is the finding of a new model developed by researchers from the University of Leeds and Imperial College London. The model could apply both to actual…
“They are coming from the deep, somewhere between 6,000 to 9,000 feet down,” said James McClintock, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham Endowed…
Many scientists are concerned that plant and animal species may face extinction due to global warming, but biologists at Washington University in St. Louis are…
“While people are generally familiar with reports of retreating sea ice affecting polar bears in the Arctic, many are now realizing that climate-change is…
The index, developed by a team of Australian researchers from the University of Adelaide and James Cook University, is called SAFE (Species Ability to…
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