Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

Sunken Wood: A New Habitat for Deep-Sea Microorganisms

A team of Max Planck researchers from Germany now showed how sunken wood can develop into an attractive habitats for a variety of microorganisms and…

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Fish Journeying Upstream Are Hampered By Hydropower Dams

Those findings were reported in a study published today in the journal Conservation Letters. A team of ecologists and economists, led by Dr. J. Jed Brown of…

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Record-Breaking Weather At Walden Pond Testing Limits Of Spring-Blooming Plants

With record-breaking warm spring weather in 2010 and 2012 resulting in the earliest known flowering times in 161 years of recorded history in two U.S….

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Salmon Runs Boom, Go Bust Over Centuries

Scientists in the past 20 years have recognized that salmon stocks vary not only year to year, but also on decades-long time cycles. One example is the 30-year…

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Track Arctic-Breeding Birds: Innovative Migration Methods

Animals move around the globe in billions, sometimes – like the snow bunting – one of the iconic Arctic-breeding species, covering huge distances and enduring…

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Pine Beetle Outbreaks May Protect Watersheds from Nitrate Pollution

According to CU-Boulder team member Professor William Lewis, the new study shows that smaller trees and other vegetation that survive pine beetle invasions…

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Global Warming Fuels Fivefold Rise in Heat Records

On average, there are now five times as many record-breaking hot months worldwide than could be expected without long-term global warming, shows a study now…

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Climate Impact on Arctic Mammals: A New Study Revealed

The scientists Anouschka Hof, Roland Jansson, and Christer Nilsson of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science at Umeå University investigated how…

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Invasive Species Threaten Native Plants, Study Finds

A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reports that recent statements that invasive plants are not problematic are often…

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Marine Robots Help Detect Endangered Whales, Research Shows

The team of researchers, led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists Mark Baumgartner and Dave Fratantoni, reported their sightings to NOAA,…

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Pythons, lionfish and now willow invade Florida's waterways

Biologists at the University of Central Florida recently completed a study that shows this slender tree once used by Native Americans for medicinal purposes,…

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Quantifying Stability: Insights From Amazon to Human Cells

When the world’s largest tropical forest suddenly starts retreating in a warming climate, energy supply blacks out, or cells turn carcinogenic, complex-systems…

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Coral Records Suggest El Nino Activity Rises Above Background

The new coral data show that 20th century El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate cycles are significantly stronger than ENSO variations captured in the…

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Evidence Contradicts Idea That Starvation Caused Saber-Tooth Cat Extinction

That is the conclusion of the latest study of the microscopic wear patterns on the teeth of these great cats recovered from the La Brea tar pits in southern…

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Plumes Across the Pacific Deliver Thousands of Microbial Species to West Coast

For the first time researchers have been able to gather enough biomass in the form of DNA to apply molecular methods to samples from two large dust plumes…

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Animals Aid Seagrass Dispersal, Study Finds

Look out the window and you’re likely to see the dispersal of seeds—dandelion tufts in the wind, a squirrel burying an acorn, a robin flying off with a dogwood…

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