But simply observing such changes doesn't prove that the invaders are responsible. University of Michigan researchers Emily Farrer and Deborah Goldberg,…
Chapin, professor of ecology at the Institute of Arctic Biology, and co-authors offer local-to-global policy recommendations to manage Arctic conditions…
Scientists, who this week had been looking for signs of the end of this “dead zone,” have instead found even more extreme drops in oxygen along the seafloor….
The planktonic eggs and larvae are small and are best viewed through a microscope and therefore unknown to most people. Many of the species or close relatives…
Combining case studies with ecological theory, Vandermeer and Perfecto found that the peasant farming practices encouraged by grassroots movements such as…
On Arizona State University's (ASU) Polytechnic campus, graduate student families in the cluster of six houses abutting lush lawns and ornamental bushes spend…
In the midst of the worldwide energy crisis, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have been continuing their work on a microbial fuel cell that…
“The ORV program in Virginia is part of a larger project that spans 14 other states,” explained Jim Parkhurst, Virginia's wildlife extension specialist based…
Twenty of the world’s leading marine scientists, including a team from the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, have called for action by…
Below, a few of the highlights:Past and present declines in Hemlocks and the future of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Monday August 7, 5 – 6:30 PM,…
Hurricane Katrina made landfall August 29, 2005 becoming the costliest ($75 billion) and one of the deadliest (nearly 2,000 human lives lost) hurricanes in…
“The work took us three years to develop and get right, but now we can essentially anchor nanotubes to a tubular wall. No one has ever done anything like this…
In a report released today, scientists call for a new systematic study of the Earth's “critical zone”–the life-sustaining outermost surface of the planet,…
The DNA survey and analysis, led by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be posted online this week ahead of regular publication…
The report, published today in the journal ‘Environment, Development and Sustainability’, concludes that the current rise in solo living, combined with the…
The Centre will be the only one of its kind in the UK to award an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) qualification in nuclear engineering.Funded by the Engineering…