Since its introduction to Wisconsin waters sometime in the 1950s, the crayfish has spread to thousands of lakes and streams, clear cutting the underwater…
Current conservation assessments of endangered Caribbean sea turtles are too optimistic, according to Loren McClenachan and colleagues from the Scripps…
Tidal marshes cover only about 45,000 square kilometers worldwide–about the area of Denmark. In comparison with other habitats, tidal marshes support few…
While the increase in toxicity was relatively modest, the effects from the interaction of chemicals were unexpected, the researchers said. Chicken Ranch…
It wasn't that bad.That mix of manure and corn stalks had spent 27 days breaking down in a special drying process. The end result looked like brown yard mulch…
Their five-year study is the first to quantify the relationship between selective logging, where loggers extract individual trees from the rain forest, and…
A team of international researchers using NASA satellite images compiled an updated inventory of all “marine protected areas” containing coral reefs and…
A fundamental new trend in atmospheric and ocean circulation patterns in the Pacific Northwest appears to have begun, scientists say, and apparently is…
A fundamental new trend in atmospheric and ocean circulation patterns in the Pacific Northwest appears to have begun, scientists say, and apparently is…
The study, published in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology, found that fish grew larger in small traditionally managed reserves, rather than in…
This is a 12-month distance learning based course run by the Biosafety International Network and Advisory Service (BINAS) of the United Nations Industrial…
John Grant, a lecturer in sustainable development from Sheffield Hallam University, believes that governments across the globe should consider rationing carbon…
“I gave up on traditional explanations when we couldn't find size-related tradeoffs in foraging rates or predator avoidance under different environmental…
“Our results are novel,” says Jose Hierro (University of Montana and Universidad Nacional de La Pampa). “No one else has ever shown that ruderals, that is,…
The new findings are based on on-going open-air research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and results gleaned from five other…
But new research using the latest evidence suggests a completely different migration path from those previously proposed and indicates that sudden, rapid…