In a fascinating example of vocal mimicry, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and UFAM (Federal University of Amazonas) have documented a…
“Wildlife biologists are monitoring species such as pelicans and plovers in the immediate path of the oil,” said Laura Burkholder at the Cornell Lab of…
In collaboration with water industry organisations including SA Water, the researchers are starting a three-year project to find the best process for using…
As expected, Walker and two fellow scientists – the first research team to travel a 700-mile stretch of the so-called Transamazon Highway in the western Amazon…
But a team of researchers has found that the opposite is the case on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.Using 15 years of long-term monitoring data collected from…
Improving the quality of local water increases the resistance of coral reefs to global climate change, according to a study published in June in Marine Ecology…
Diane Debinski has been studying the meadows in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of the Rocky Mountains since 1992. She has found that if the area's climate…
The researchers evaluated the result against spatially explicit process models including the leading model LPJmL from PIK. Tropical ecosystems such as rain…
What oceanography professors Markus Huettel and Joel E. Kostka learn will enable them to predict when most of the oil in the beaches will be gone. Their…
Arsenic is a poisonous chemical element found in minerals and it is present in oil. High levels of arsenic in seawater can enable the toxin to enter the food…
A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution suggests that while removing excess carbon dioxide would cool the planet, complexities of the carbon…
The Stormont Assembly voted to ban hare coursing in Northern Ireland last Tuesday (22nd June), but a recent study, funded by the Northern Ireland Environment…
“SEI,” says Emdad Haque, Professor at the University of Manitoba and panel chairman, “is one of the few international institutes addressing sustainable…
It provides useful information to support freshwater and marine environmental management, to predict fish migration routes and assess the likely impact of…
This differs from the observation raised 10 years ago that humans were “fishing down” the food web. It was assumed that catches of the predators at the top of…
This result refutes an alternative theory discussed amongst experts, the so-called “clathrate gun hypothesis”. The latter assumed that large amounts of methane…
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