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…
“The subduction of continental crust to this depth has never been reported in the Himalayas and is also extremely rare in the rest of world,” said Dr Anju…
A new species of horned dinosaur unearthed in Mexico has larger horns that any other species – up to 4 feet long – and has given scientists fresh insights into…
The results provide the first concrete evidence that carbon dioxide (CO2) was more efficiently locked away in the deep ocean during the last ice age, turning…
With funding from the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning and the Swedish International Development…
ARS soil scientist J. Mark Powell at the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center in Madison, Wis., worked with ARS agricultural engineer Clarence Rotz at the ARS…
The experts included meteorologists, ground-based, air-borne and Earth-observation specialists and modellers. While scientists and researchers shared…
“There could be major consequences for the Baltic’s sensitive ecosystem,” says researcher Daniel Hansson.The Baltic is a young, brackish sea with a unique and…
Although satellites and aircraft can help show the extent of the spill at the surface, MBARI's autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) will help researchers…
Researchers at Cornell University, as well as the University of Goettingen and National University of Colombia, have discovered that when a major South…
The low pressure area is located near 20.4 North and 115.3 East, about 130 nautical miles southeast of Hong Kong. NASA's Aqua satellite flew over System 93W…
AIRS, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument on Aqua, provides scientists with infrared satellite imagery. That imagery measures cloud top temperatures…
This conclusion is at odds with a theory – which holds that these early beings lived in a mostly forested environment – put forth by prominent University of…
The University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science has launched a new “Oil Spill” web page http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/oil-spill/…
The largetooth sawfish, a popular curio item known for its sawlike snout, was proposed as a federally endangered species on May 7, less than three weeks after…
Because most of the contaminated water is near the surface, many people in Bangladesh have installed deep wells to tap into groundwater that's relatively free…
The groundbreaking research by Colette Heald, assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, was highlighted this…
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