This last point is what we would call pollution and it is easy to detect now thanks to the advances by the doctoral thesis recently presented in the Department…
We live on a rapidly changing planet. By 2025 – just one generation away – our activities are expected to have a major impact on our oceans, which could cause…
The study, which has implications for forest management and global mercury pollution, was published online today (Jan. 9) in the journal Global Biogeochemical…
The importance of the discovery is that it reveals how a species has developed different responses to different climates in a short period of time.Researchers…
The Centre for Atmospheric and Instrumentation Research (CAIR) which is based at the University’s College Lane campus was formed by bringing together three…
Addressing this threat, world governments agreed through the UN Convention on Biological Diversity to reduce significantly the current rate of biodiversity…
The research provides the first evidence for what scientists describe as the ‘cognitive buffer’ hypothesis – the idea that having a large brain enables animals…
The findings appear in the January 9th issue of the journal Current Biology, published by Cell Press, and are reported by Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University…
This finding suggests that quick-growing plants such as weeds may cope better with global warming than slower-growing plants such as Redwood trees — a…
Congress should enact legislation to ensure that strong environmental standards are in place to regulate the siting and conduct of offshore marine aquaculture,…
The Oriental white-backed vulture chick hatched last week at the breeding centre in northern India and belongs to one of three Asian vulture species facing a…
Ongoing global climate change causes changes in the species composition of marine ecosystems, especially in shallow coastal oceans. This applies also to fish…
The Norwegian proverb ’small tussocks overturn great loads’ is rarely more fitting, because now it turns out that marshes and mosses are very important for the…
Cornell researchers studied the related virus, called H5N2, to see whether a hypothetical mutated form of H5N1 could infect people through drinking and…
The summer of 2006 was the second warmest in the continental United States since records began in 1895, according to the National Climatic Data Center….
“This is the best documented record we have of what happens to the climate system during long-term global warming following an ice age,” said Isabel Montanez,…
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