Dr George Chen received the prestigious award at a ceremony in London to recognise scientists who are helping to put the UK at the forefront of the battle…
“Alberta bears have remarkably diverse diets,” said Dr. Mark Boyce, biological sciences professor at the U of A and co-author on the study. “They’ll eat just…
The Institute of Physics recognises this and is launching a new website, http://environmentalresearchweb.org, a central source of information on these issues…
Recent research in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa puts this predilection into an evolutionary perspective. “Many fleshy fruits that we…
The main theme of the call is networking of scientists, who can only jointly apply for multilateral research projects, network projects or summer schools….
Tiny molecules strung in long repeating chains, polymers in the natural world have been around since the beginning of time and today industrial polymers have a…
In places more than 50% of the mature trees have disappeared between1965 and 2003, while almost no new trees have been recruited. Despite extreme aridity the…
A group of Finnish scientists suggests a new climate-biosphere interaction mechanism for the underlying processes in a new study, which will be published on…
University of Leicester ecologist Dr David Harper, who has been studying the lake for 25 years, says almost half a million people now live around the shores of…
The news is reported in the latest edition of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences.Depletion of the ozone layer over…
China is in the midst of a mammoth programme of development of coal-fired power stations. Between 2000 and 2004, China built new coal-fired power stations…
To avoid going extinct a population must not only survive, but also reproduce. Paul Turner, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale,…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States government and the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union (EU), have…
One particularly successful but controversial approach has been to apply the neutral model, a body of theory trying to explain community patterns by modeling…
Writing in the latest issue of the journal, Reproduction, UNSW genetics expert Professor Des Cooper warns that the immuno-contraception method is not fully…
To this end, over the past two and a half years, the project has been pooling the research and development capacities of 47 partners in 15 European countries:…
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