The Catalogue of Life, available on CD and on the Internet (www.catalogueoflife.org), is the result of a worldwide collaboration involving so far about 50…
The news is reported in the latest edition of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. Aquatic ecosystems produce over…
Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island have been integrated into Medspiration until 31 March in order to support the study of wildlife migration processes from the…
The University of Washington doctoral student has found the first example of an animal making sophisticated decisions about the danger posed by a predator from…
The news is reported in the latest edition of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.Organotin compounds are widely used as…
This will be caused by the continued release and accumulation of CO2 in the air: one third of it will be absorbed by the ocean water, thereby making it more…
From 1981-2002, warming reduced the combined production of wheat, corn, and barley—cereal grains that form the foundation of much of the world’s diet—by 40…
The news is reported in the latest edition of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.Concerns about the spread of bird flu…
Professor Hywel Morgan (School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS)) and Dr Matt Mowlem (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS)) and colleagues…
UNICEF is leading the reform process in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene sector and has been mandated to provide a focal point for co-ordinating activities in…
This finding, to be presented at the Felid Biology and Conservation Conference, in Oxford (UK), will allow the analysis of fertility of lynxes in the…
Arsenic has a number of known serious health effects, including increased cancer risk, higher frequency of cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Until now, it…
This marks the start of a long-term European commitment to monitor the recovery of the ozone layer and to support the monitoring and forecasting of air…
A popular game fish mistaken by scientists for a dog snapper is actually a new species discovered among the reefs of the Abrolhos region of the South Atlantic…
Professor Julia Slingo, Acting Director of the Walker Institute at the University of Reading and Climate Director of the National Centre for Atmospheric…
In particular, a plant pathogen appears to have opened the gate for the successful invasion of non-native grasses into much of California, one of the world's…