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…
As the shipping industry’s emissions are predicted to continue to grow in the future, the UK will fail to meet its commitment to avoid dangerous climate change…
But water issues – both quantity and quality – are not new to this strategically important country. Waterborne diseases account for 30 percent of all deaths in…
Infrared satellite imagery from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite shows that the convection (rapidly rising air that…
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument, known as AIRS has the ability to determine cloud top and sea surface temperatures from its position in space…
University of California, Berkeley, and Yale University scientists have recreated the tremendous pressures and high temperatures deep in the Earth to resolve a…
At 2 p.m. EDT today, Sept. 23, Tropical Depression 15 had maximum sustained winds near 35 mph. It was located about 485 miles east of Puerto Cabezas,…
These fast-shrinking subterranean reservoirs are essential to daily life and agriculture in many regions, while also sustaining streams, wetlands, and…
It is all part of an ominous feedback loop, Chanton says. The warming climate is causing the Swedish permafrost to thaw and decompose and, as it does, the…
The videos show waves of ground motion spreading out from an epicenter. In making them widely available, the team of computational seismologists and computer…
David W. J. Thompson, an atmospheric science professor at Colorado State University, is the lead author of the paper in the Sept. 23 Nature. Other authors are…
The computer simulations show that a strong east wind, blowing overnight, could have pushed water back at a bend where an ancient river is believed to have…
NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites captured visible and infrared images of Hurricane Igor yesterday as he brought heavy rainfall into northeastern Canada. A…
At 1445 UTC (10:45 a.m. EDT) today, Sept. 22, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 captured Tropical Storm Lisa in the far…
Altier says:“The fisheries of the world are being rapidly depleted and so advances in aquaculture will be needed to meet the growing demand for protein….
That’s why a University at Buffalo researcher with expertise in how the main ingredients of dispersants — polymers and surfactants — interact in solutions…
China leads the world in tonnage of fish caught annually as well as the amount of fish consumed, according to new findings reported in National Geographic…
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