Rising levels of smokestack emissions from oceangoing ships will cause an estimated 87,000 deaths worldwide each year by 2012 — almost one-third higher than…
Even if the biofuels were used in an optimal manner to produce electricity or make cellulosic ethanol, there would still be a net loss of carbon sequestration…
After studying a million years of forest evolution on Southeast Asian islands, a Texas Tech University plant biologist said human deforestation and future…
A long-term environmental research project being conducted at the University of Houston may offer important information about the effects of Hurricane Ike on…
However, technology and alterations to the design could dramatically improve the potential for animals to move more freely between the two countries, the…
Prairie lakes that expand greatly in area during wet cycles are more likely to have elevated mercury levels soon after, South Dakota State University research…
“This is the first time we've taken a good look at a national park system in one country, relative to all of the wildlife populations across the whole…
The research team from the University of Granada (UGR) and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italia) show coralline algae distribution patterns in…
In a study published in the latest issue of the prestigious journal Ecology Letters, an international team has studied this circadian clock from a molecular…
More precisely, the average size of Soay sheep on the island has declined about 5 percent in both body weight and stature since researchers began taking…
Just months before world leaders are scheduled to meet to devise a new international treaty on climate change, a research team led by Princeton University…
In the complete absence of stand-replacing disturbances – via fire or timber harvest – forests of Oregon and Northern California could theoretically almost…
More than 40 percent of a sample of amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds that are restricted to mangrove ecosystems are globally threatened with…
Researchers at Yale University, the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Sheffield now show that land plants saved the Earth from a deep…
Whales are usually difficult to spot. On the one hand, they spend the greater part of their life under water. On the other hand, only a small part of their…
An international team of scientists warns that accelerating losses of seagrasses across the globe threaten the immediate health and long-term sustainability of…
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