The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Delhi and Duke University, analyzed deaths in 409 villages in the poor, mostly rural Kendrapada…
Ethanol production in Minnesota and Iowa uses far less water overall than similar processes in states where water is less plentiful, a new University of…
Two weeks after the rains begin, an elephant family named “the Royals” usually switches to a grass diet to bulk up for pregnancy and birth. But when they…
The lack of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration, however, actually limits the growth of plants and their aquatic relatives, microalgae.For plants…
The findings are reported in the April 8 issue of PLoS ONE, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of the Public Library of Science.Researchers used…
Recent research has predicted that climate change may expand the scope of human infectious diseases. A new review, however, argues that climate change may have…
The new findings are in contrast to analysis of samples as far back as 1996 that identified PBDEs in only a limited number of sites around the nation. Based on…
Many longtime sailors have been mesmerized by the dazzling displays of green light often seen below the ocean surface in tropical seas. Now researchers at…
Researchers from the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre created mini-ecosystems in large aquatic tanks using different species of three-spine stickleback fish…
This new plant exploits the enormous potential of obtaining biogas from the organic matter contained in agricultural food waste, and will help the food…
University of Illinois geneticist Michael Plewa said that disinfection by-products (DBPs) in water are the unintended consequence of water purification. “The…
In an article published in the Philippine Agricultural Scientist, UPLB economist Prof. U-Primo E. Rodriguez and Dr. Liborio Cabanilla, dean of the College of…
“We were studying making hydrogen in microbial electrolysis cells and we kept getting all this methane,” said Bruce E. Logan, Kappe Professor of Environmental…
Utilizing a new imaging technology invented by the researchers, they were able to instantaneously image and continuously monitor entire shoals of fish…
The report explains that, in order to create an effective, Europe wide climate policy, climate change issues must be better integrated into both general and…
Children of baby boomers aren’t the only ones who have taken to setting up home far from where their parents live. A new study published this week in the…