Botanists at Edge Hill University, the UK’s newest University, have discovered a population Carex salina (Salt-marsh sedge), near Morvich on the west coast of…
Working in the remote forests of Cambodia, conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have just discovered Southeast Asia's only known…
University of Leicester environmentalists are leading an international team in a research project that can help Indonesian researchers to reverse strategies…
Right now some tubeworm tartare and clams on the half shell would really hit the spot, so you're headed for the all-night café. “All-night” being the operative…
Modeling global average productivity to compare environmental tradeoffs and human-induced stressors in the environment Thomas Dietz (Michigan State…
It is well known that material properties change when reducing particle sizes. However, for MoS2 nanoparticles the size-dependent deviations from the bulk…
Stacy VanDeveer, associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, evaluates current U.S. climate change policy and assesses future…
An international team of climate scientists has cautioned against suggestions that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has previously…
“We are now seeing, not merely predicting, effects of greenhouse warming on a scale and in ways that were not observable before,” said Gabriele Hegerl,…
Returning from a recent 1,000-mile expedition across Tibet's remote Chang Tang region, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) biologist George Schaller reports…
The RRS James Cook is the latest addition to the Natural Environment Research Council’s fleet of oceanographic research ships.Professor Alan Thorpe, NERC’s…
Microorganisms make up more than a third of the Earth’s biomass. They are found in water, on land and even in our bodies, recycling nutrients, influencing the…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) developed the report, ‘Climate Change 2007’, over six years with a panel of 2 500 scientific expert…
Appleby said that even though the pest has been in the news since it was first identified in ash trees near Detroit in 2002, there are still people who are…
Doug Peterson, a former Cornell postdoctoral researcher now at the University of Georgia who worked with Cornell's Mark Bain on the study, holds a shortnose…
Researchers funded by the Economic and Social Science Research Council and based at Oxford University found that the climate change impact of individuals'…