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…
Just on this account, the European Space Agency has sent a satellite into space which is to perform the preparatory work for the direct detection of…
Grasslands across North America will face higher summer temperatures and widespread drought by the end of the century, according to a new study.
Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) was once commonly used as a cleaning agent and remains an important compound in chemical industry. CCl4 is responsible for that…
“When sea levels rise, damage costs rise even faster, our analyses show,” explains Markus Boettle, lead author of the study published in the journal Natural…
GFZ German Research Centre begins exploratory drilling on the TU Berlin campus.
The composition of species communities can change considerably over time, often due to human influences. Even though these changes have led to the decline of…
It can take Mother Nature 1,000 years to grow a forest. But Nikolay Strigul, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics at Washington State University…
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Winston and infrared data showed that the northerly wind shear had pushed the bulk of strongest storms to the south of the…
Microplastics – small pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters (0.20 inches) wide – are an emerging environmental concern in ocean waters, where they can harm…
On Feb. 23, 2016 at 0140 UTC (Feb. 22, 2016 at 8:40 p.m. EST) the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP…
Climate change is transforming the Earth, particularly in high-latitude regions. The boreal coniferous forests of the northern hemisphere will witness an…
Global warming and the intense El Niño now underway are prolonging the longest global coral die-off on record, according to NOAA scientists monitoring and…
Together, the two studies give critical information for coastal planning. For expert assessments of future sea-level rise, the authors make the tool available…
The more clearly the dimensions of global warming become visible, the greater is the pressure to find possible ways to avoid a further increase in the…
The University of Delaware's Pamela Green is part of an international consortium of researchers from 35 laboratories that have published the genome of the…
The findings, presented this week at the annual American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences conference and recently published online in the journal Geophysical…
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