In many tropical zones around the world, small family farms can match or exceed the productivity of industrial-scale operations, according to U-M researchers…
“When people sacrifice to conserve, they want to benefit from that sacrifice,” says Patrick Christie, University of Washington associate professor of marine…
The report provides a comprehensive evaluation of national and European environmental policies covering the years 2004 to 2008. Key sections of the SRU report…
Once described by Jacques Cousteau as the “world's aquarium,” the marine ecosystems of the Gulf of California are under threat. Destructive new fishing methods…
Sales of electronic products in countries like China and India and across continents such as Africa and Latin America are set to rise sharply in the next 10…
Palumbi will be discussing the results of his research in two talks at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San…
A research group at the Lund University has calculated the figures on behalf of the Swedish Energy Agency after having analysed a biogas plant in Skåne. The…
As many Asian countries prepare to celebrate Year of the Tiger beginning February 14, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reports that tigers are in crisis around the…
In future, scientists want to acquire marine biology data with a high resolution in terms of time and space there by means of state-of-the-art sensor…
An important step in the reaction is the adsorption of CO on the surface of the catalyst. A team of scientists from the ESRF and the ETH in Zurich…
PredatorsLocal fishermen used to fish carp and perciform fish near the shores of the lake, as food for their families. But fifty years ago, the Nile Perch was…
The research, carried out by scientists from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Butterfly Conservation and the University of York, has implications for how we…
While it is clear to ecologists that an ecosystem shapes the evolution of animals living in it, population biology experts such as Joseph Travis of The Florida…
Recent work at Washington University in St. Louis sheds light on one of the most important events in earth-history, the conquest of land by plants 480 million…
Extensive commercial fishing endangers dolphin populations in the Mediterranean. This has been shown in a new study carried out at the University of Haifa's…
Pyrethroid insecticides, commonly used in California to kill ants and other insect pests around the home, have been found in street runoff and in the outflow…
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