Working out ways to give local communities as well as conservation managers the power to do this is the work of Professor Bob Pressey of the ARC Centre of…
An international team from The Australian National University, Ecowise Environmental, the Government of the Republic of Kiribati, the French agency CIRAD and…
The toolkit is one of the first outcomes of a £5 million Government-funded knowledge transfer partnership called Omega. It is led by three universities -…
Fortunately, environment protectors have managed to achieve the transfer. However, Baikal has turned out to cope already with its own oil blowouts – there are…
It's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket… unless you're a senita moth.Found in the parched Sonoran desert of southern Arizona and northern…
A rising tree line in the Rockies due to global warming, and a policy not to initiate “prescribed burns” (intentionally started, controlled fires) in order to…
A research team led by Rothamsted Research has used a weather-based model developed to predict the start and severity of epidemics of phoma stem canker, a…
New research shows that industrial development in North America between 1850 and 1950 greatly increased the amount of black carbon–commonly known as soot–…
Aircraft engines are more efficient at higher temperatures, but this requires thermal treatment of engine components at very specific high temperatures in…
Borneo pygmy elephants depend for their survival on forests situated on flat, low lands and in river valleys, the study found. Unfortunately, it is also the…
The scientists found that the government’s program of designating specific regions for legal logging, combined with protection of other forests, and the…
These findings have significant implications related to the sustainability and conservation of these globally-important areas.Michigan State University…
Alexandros A. Ntelekos and James A. Smith of Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science based their conclusion on computer models and…
Permafrost serves like a platform underneath vast expanses of northern forests and wetlands that are rooted, literally, in melting permafrost in many northern…
José Manuel Poyatos Capilla, researcher from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Granada [http://www.ugr.es], is the main responsible for…
So far many scientists have used a measure called ‘net energy’. However, Professor Bruce Dale from Michigan State University claims, “Net energy analysis is…