The Green Revolution has stagnated for key food crops in many regions of the world, according to a study published in the Dec. 18 issue of Nature…
But how can these invasive reeds be eradicated before they take over their environment if we don’t know where they are?Now we do know, thanks to scientists…
A research team, led by Institute of Zoology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and BGI, has successfully reconstructed a continuous population history of the…
Remains of dead bacteria have far greater meaning for soils than previously assumed. Around 40 per cent of the microbial biomass is converted to organic soil…
This is concluded in a study by researchers from the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the Faculty of Science at the…
A team of Roger Williams University (RWU), Boston University (BU), Conservation International(CI), and the New England Aquarium (NEAq) researchers has been…
A two-year study, to appear in January's edition of Biological Conservation, tracked the elephants' migration with Global Positioning System (GPS) collars. Its…
In a pair of papers in the journal Ecology, they show that fish contribute more nutrients to their local ecosystems than any other source-enough to cause…
Over past decades, many areas of the forested Amazon basin have become a patchwork of farms, pastures and second-growth forest as people have moved in and…
New measurements show that kerosene wick lamps release 20 times more black carbon than previously thought, say researchers at the University of Illinois and…
If you're catching and eating fish from a Lake Michigan tributary with a strong salmon run, the stream fish — brook trout, brown trout, panfish — may be…
While some species will react to climate change by moving upslope, others will move downslope, driven by changes in seasonality and water availability. The…
“Long-term ecological research is important to understanding the effects of a changing climate on our natural resources and so much more,” said Michael T….
It will be the first of its kind “in a country whose wealth is founded on fossil fuels,” PIK’s director Hans Joachim Schellnhuber said. “Qatar declares to…
The study found that mixing the dispersant with oil increased toxicity of the mixture up to 52-fold over the oil alone. In toxicity tests in the lab, the…
The study appears in the December 3, 2012 online edition of the journal Epidemiology.”Despite the fact that the U.S. population as a whole is exposed to much…
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