Speaking at the British Ecological Society's Annual Meeting next week, Dr Liz Chadwick of Cardiff University's Otter Project will report the results of…
California beachgoers may look lazy. But just a few miles off shore, scientists have discovered that a common coastal strain of cyanobacteria works diligently…
Speaking at the BES's Annual Meeting at the University of Oxford from 5-7 September, Professor Curtis Richardson of Duke University will present the findings…
According to the data of different international organizations provided and analysed by professors Yolanda Castro Díez and María Jesús Esteban Parra, of the…
“The K-T caused major extinction among North American plants and insects. The Western Interior U.S. was a dead zone for plants and plant-insect food webs,”…
In a report, published in the August 25, 2006 issue of the journal, Science, MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory) senior scientist Bruce J. Peterson and his…
Scientists from 17 countries have collaborated in the world's largest phenology study (the recording of changes in natural annual events such as the flowering…
The findings suggest this area, known as the Upper Indus Basin, could be reacting differently to global warming, the phenomenon blamed for causing glaciers in…
Engineers here determined that the technique greatly outperformed other methods by removing at least 95 percent of a toxin secreted by Microcystis, a…
All of these instruments, along with more than fifty scientists from over a dozen prestigious institutions throughout the country, are part of an extensive,…
Forest fire kills all arthropoda inhabiting the forest litter and several upper centimeters of the soil. Only those arthropoda that ran away, flew away or…
As California searches for more sources of power, researchers at UC Irvine have created the first scientific method for predicting the impact of small-scale…
For these and other reasons, many sturgeons — a variety of ancient, bottom-feeding fish — are in trouble. Trent Sutton, a fisheries biologist at Purdue…
The work is reported by Heather M. Galindo and Stephen R. Palumbi of Stanford University, and Donald B. Olson of the University of Miami, and appears in the…
“My hope is that over time, the administration will rethink its priorities in this area,” says Richard Lester, professor of nuclear engineering and director of…