New study finds that the nutritional value of prey within a single species can widely vary, offering key insights for food web dynamics and ecosystem change The hunt is on and a predator finally zeroes in on its prey. The animal consumes the nutritious meal and moves on to forage for its next target. But how much prey does a predator need to consume? Following a period of massive starvation among animals living along the California coast, University of California…
Simulating wind, snow and extreme temperatures at an altitude of 9,000m in a controlled and secure environment represents a revolution in environmental…
Researchers from the Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering of the University of Seville have published a study in which they indicate that it…
„While the effects of climate change on tree growth in forests have been extensively studied, there is little information available so far for urban trees“,…
The Cordilleran Ice Sheet covered large parts of North America during the Pleistocene – or Last Ice Age – and was similar in mass to the Greenland Ice Sheet….
A Washington State University researcher has discovered that vast amounts of carbon can be stored by soil minerals more than a foot below the surface. The…
Unlike its presence at high altitude where ozone acts as Earth's sunscreen from harmful ultraviolet radiation, at low altitudes, ozone is a health hazard…
They calculated the first internationally comparable greenhouse gas footprints for four cities from developed and developing countries: Berlin, New York,…
The first 1.5 billion years of Earth's evolution is subject to considerable uncertainty due to the lack of any significant rock record prior to four billion…
According to NASA, the ozone hole reached its peak extent on Sept. 11, covering an area about two and a half times the size of the United States – 7.6 million…
Over 100,000 years ago, boulders weighing many tons were washed onto a cliff in the Bahamas. It has been long debated whether the rocks were actually…
The carbonate shells of tiny marine plankton, foraminifers, are important archives of geochemical records of past climates. Understanding how these plankton…
Fine particulates have numerous sources – not only traffic, which is currently under particular scrutiny. Reducing agricultural emissions could also…
The receivers were designed and studied as part of a Laboratory Directed Research and Development project and are also being applied to Sandia's work for the…
About one third of all animal species around the world are threatened. But even so, it is mainly the imposing, large terrestrial and marine animals such as…
Less than half of our planet’s surface is covered by land. The rest is water, and this environment is home to an enormous range of animal species, most of…
Palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world, appearing in the ingredients’ list of many consumer goods, from chocolate to soap. Indonesia, the…
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