Highlighted in
Agriculture & Environment

Earth Sciences
6 mins read

Uneven Nutritional Payoffs for Marine Predators Revealed

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…

Read more

All News

Environmental Conservation

Risk of Extinction Increases for Cod

Plentiful catches are now the stuff of history books. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) reports cod populations from the…

Environmental Conservation

As Oil Spreads, Cornell-Audubon Citizen Network Tracks Birds

The new eBird Gulf Coast Oil Spill Bird Tracker on the site enables people to gain quick access to interactive maps showing the latest bird reports.Audubon…

Environmental Conservation

PSU finds environmental changes the causes of mussel deaths in Trang

Faculty of Natural Resources, PSU has learned about the death of farmed mussels in Tambon South Kantang, Amphoe Kangtang, Trang Province where there are 89…

Environmental Conservation

Promising Advances in Carbon Emissions Capture and Storage

Technology for capturing carbon dioxide and safely storing it underground rather than releasing it to the atmosphere holds significant promise in the U.S. and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Algae Advances as a “Green” Alternative for Improving Water Quality

Microbiologist Walter Mulbry works at the ARS Environmental Management and Byproduct Utilization Research Unit in Beltsville, Md., which is located in the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Hormone Suppression Could Help Stressed Trees

Now research led by Michigan Technological University scientists has identified the molecular mechanism that Populus—the scientific name for common poplars,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Unlocking Value: Innovations in Forest Biorefineries

The pulp mills of today could gain additional value from the wood used in pulp production, if valuable wood components from forest residue and side-streams…

Earth Sciences

Envisat Detects Renewed Volcanic Activity Disrupting Aviation

The volcano began emitting steam and ash on 20 March, wreaking havoc on European aviation last month. Renewed activity earlier this week caused some flights to…

Environmental Conservation

Gorillas, Elephants, and Logging: Insights from Congo Study

The study looked at wildlife populations in northern Republic of Congo over a mosaic of land-use types, including a national park, a community-managed reserve,…

Environmental Conservation

Antifouling Substance Linked to Paler Fish: Study Insights

Research at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has shown that high concentrations of this substance can have an impact on the marine environment.Since TBT…

Environmental Conservation

Cages and Emetics Help Rescue Sweden’s Wading Birds

Populations of shore-breeding wading birds have fallen dramatically in Sweden. One reason is that ground-nesting birds' nests are being robbed by other…

Environmental Conservation

Researchers on NOAA Mission Alter Course to Collect Sediment and Water Samples Near Deepwater Horizon Spill

Researchers from the National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology sailed late Tuesday on a university research ship to obtain core sediment samples…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Laser Technology: A New Approach to Weed Control

This science-fiction scenario is actually being researched at the Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) and the Institute for Biological Production Systems (IBPS) at the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Feeling Stressed? So is the Poplar — But Hormone Suppression Could Help the Tree

Now research led by Michigan Technological University scientists has identified the molecular mechanism that Populus—the scientific name for common poplars,…

Earth Sciences

Peruvian Tectonic Plates: Earthquake and Non-Seismic Slip Insights

As a scientist working in the active tectonics of the Peruvian Andes – funded through the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Institute for Geophysics and…

Earth Sciences

Understanding Ice Flow: Insights from Vienna’s Geology Summit

Currently the yearly General Assembly of the European Geological Union takes place in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Olaf Eisen from the German Alfred Wegener Institute…

Feedback