Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

Lab-on-a-chip Technology: Microfluidics Aids Major Advance in Environmental Testing

Microfluidics is an exciting new field of science and engineering that enables very small-scale fluid control and analysis, allowing instrument manufacturers…

Environmental Conservation

Isn’t it good – Norwegian wood?

Did you know that Norwegian trees require only a few minutes to replace the timber used to produce the first edition of Aftenposten? That’s equivalent to the…

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Investigating sea ice decline

Chances that the 2008 ice extent will fall below last year's record minimum is about 8 percent, researchers forecast after having run a number of different…

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New Tool Assesses Ecosystem Damage Potential in Collaboration

Dickson is collaborating with Montana-based developers of the sensor, who received a $980,000 federal grant in June to further its development. Recently…

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Innovative Solutions for Protecting Our Essential Bees

Most of the world's plant species rely on animals to transfer their pollen to other plants. The undisputed queen of these animal pollinators is the bee, made…

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Spanish Researchers Find Key Leatherback Turtle Nesting Sites

In the course of their work, they came across extensive nesting grounds that bring new hope for the survival of the leatherback turtle. This species suffered a…

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Ivory Poaching Crisis: Elephants Face Extinction by 2020

The elephant death rate from poaching throughout Africa is about 8 percent a year based on recent studies, which is actually higher than the 7.4 percent annual…

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Patagonian Glaciers Provide Insights on Climate Change Trends

Boreholes drilled during the 1990s on six glaciers in the tropical zone of the Andean Cordillera gave rise to a substantial collection of data on the changes…

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UNH Researchers Tag First Free-Swimming Leatherback Turtles

University of New Hampshire researchers have tagged one male and two female leatherback turtles off Cape Cod. They are the first free-swimming leatherbacks…

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Satellite Images Unlock Plague Outbreak Prediction Insights

By moving through the coffee via the empty spaces between the ground coffee particles, the water picks up the flavour of the coffee. Stephen Davis and…

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Rosella research could re-write ‘ring theory’

Published today in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the research investigates the genetic and geographical relationships between…

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European Birds Adapt to Warming Climate in Britain

Researchers at Durham, the RSPB and Cambridge University have found that birds such as the Cirl Bunting and Dartford Warbler are becoming more common across a…

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“We place mussels in the ports we wish to analyse in order to determine how much contamination is accumulated and what type.”

Studying living things can prove to be highly significant when evaluating contamination suffered by a specific environment. A research team from the University…

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The ecological status of the Mar Menor (little sea) lagoon will deteriorate with a 3ºC to 5°C rise in water temperature

As a result of an up to 5°C increase in water temperatures over the next few years, this pioneering study shows an increase in the regression rate of benthic…

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New Model Identifies Habitats for European Wildcats

For the first time an international researcher team has developed a model, which identifies potential habitats and corridors for the European wildcat (Felis…

Environmental Conservation

Birdsong Not Just For the Birds: Bio-acoustic method also hears nature’s cry for help

Computer scientists from the University of Bonn, in conjunction with the birdsong archives of Berlin’s Humboldt University, have developed a kind of ‘Big…

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