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…
Loss of production may be one concern cotton producers have on the Rolling Plains when considering switching to reduced- or no-tillage systems, said Dr. Paul…
A botanist brings a species of alfalfa from Siberia, to the United States. His hope? The plant survives, and leads to a new winter-hardy alfalfa. But what also…
Previously published studies reported a wide variety of—and often contradictory—conclusions about the bark beetles' effect on fuels and wildfire.A team of…
The work, presented online May 27 in Nature Geoscience, shows that once the angle of a slope exceeds 30 degrees – whether from uplift, a rushing stream carving…
San Andreas Fault in Santa Cruz Mountains – large quakes more frequent than previously thoughtRecent paleoseismic work has documented four surface-rupturing…
Funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) the MoMo – project (Integrated Water Resource Management in Central Asia: Model region Mongolia…
Tropical Storm Beryl formed off the Carolina coast on Friday, May 25 as “System 94L” and later that day became the second tropical storm of the Atlantic…
NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of Typhoon Sanvu on May 25 at 1559 UTC (11:59 a.m. EDT) when Sanvu was around its peak. The image clearly…
Researchers at the National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark – that country's federal agency responsible for surveys and mapping – had been storing the glass…
The Greenland ice sheet continues to lose mass and thus contributes at about 0.7 millimeters per year to the currently observed sea level change of about 3 mm…
How families in developing countries use their cookstoves has a big effect on emissions from those stoves, and laboratory emission tests don't accurately…
“It's the kind of thing that sends a chill,” said Mark Rigali, manager of the geochemistry group at Sandia. “We've helped really make a difference in the…
They're tiny creatures with glossy, chocolate-brown hair, out-sized ears and wings. They gobble mosquitoes and other insect pests during the summer and…
Their pictures and other observations are reported in the current issue of Oryx, The International Journal of Conservation. The rare rabbit was first…
The study, which appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, paints the highest resolution picture yet of how groundwater depletion…
The two-month crossing of the Baltic Sea will include three calls at the Hanseatic city of Rostock. The study carried out by the IOW's scientists will focus on…
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