The Minister then visited the experimental station operated by the Cemagref (Research Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering) at…
Professor Craig Franklin, from the University's School of Integrative Biology, said one relocated crocodile swam around the northern tip of Australia to reach…
The nations of Asia and the Pacific are being urged to study the issue of biofuels with greater care before deciding on how they will use their agricultural…
With this takeaway strategy the crabs maximise their food uptake and keep competing crabs at a distance, says Dutch researcher Isabel Smallegange. Food is not…
He and his colleagues have calculated that growing some of the most commonly used biofuel crops releases around twice the amount of the potent greenhouse gas…
More than 60 people were killed and thousands left homeless in the worst forest fires to hit Greece in decades. According to data from ESA’s ERS-2 and Envisat…
And the few groups of animals that have the potential to get through a space journey alive will constitute a key source of knowledge when the time comes to…
Danish researchers now suggest that in order to assess the overall environmental impact of wind power, however, the finite lifespan of wind turbines and the…
If you want to catch a trophy northern pike, walleye or brook trout in the northern Canadian wilderness, better plan your trip soon. That’s because according…
A decade later, the satellite's data has proved instrumental in countless applications and helped researchers paint a picture of a changing climate. NASA…
These strategies are often based on a single objective (e.g. species richness conservation or species abundance conservation), a constant site protection cost…
However, before CO2 can be stored, it must be separated from the waste gases. The current methods used for this type of filtration are expensive and require…
These days, we in the developing world are encouraged to compost our garden and kitchen waste at home or dispose of it in our “green” bin for kerbside…
Phosgene was still stockpiled in military arsenals well after the Second World War, but its continued presence in the atmosphere today is due to man-made…
“Up to now a direct link has been difficult to establish because of all the other factors that affect mercury levels in fish and large pools of mercury already…
In this week's special issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (online), Indiana University political scientist Elinor Ostrom and…