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…
Ocean acidification and its consequences for marine life pose several pressing problems that are of concern to scientists all over the world. One alarming…
The study featured on the cover of the November issue of Ecology shows animal bone remains provide high-quality geographical data across an extensive time…
Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite captured over two days revealed that the storm had consolidated, intensified and developed a large band of strong…
Results from field and lab tests found that 7 to 9 percent of the kerosene in wick lamps — used for light in 250-300 million households without electricity —…
A paper published earlier this month in the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics considers the identification of contaminants in a water distribution network as…
This is shown by a study now published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research…
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of Tropical Storm Bopha on Nov. 27 at…
A recent NASA study published in the October issue of the Journal of Hydrometeorology compared satellite rain data from NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measurement…
Scientists often can discern pertinent details about meteorites — when they struck, how large they were, the angle they approached Earth and other information…
Micronesia is a region in the western North Pacific Ocean made up of thousands of small islands. West of the region is the Philippines, while Indonesia is…
The effects of storm surge and sea-level rise have become topics of everyday conversation in the days and weeks following Hurricane Sandy’s catastrophic…
The Nordic countries now initiate collaboration to establish a joint Nordic LifeWatch project, to create a better access to biodiversity data in favour of…
The finding, described in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is surprising because previous studies indicate that the…
One tropical lizard's tolerance to cold is stiffer than scientists had suspected.A new study shows that the Puerto Rican lizard Anolis cristatellus has adapted…
The thickest layers of global smog — caused by traffic, industry, and natural minerals, among other factors — are found over the world's megacities. But…
An international team led by Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, BGI, and other institutes has completed the genomic sequence of watermelon…
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