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 alligator hatchlings—15 in number—are the offspring of a group of alligators that includes animals from the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo. The…
Scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have successfully conducted the first…
A study by five university researchers—including four from the University of Hawai'i at Mânoa—concludes that existing shark cage diving enterprises in Hawai'i…
Concern over access to clean water is no longer just an issue for the developing world, as California faces its worst drought in recorded history.According to…
Excess usage of glyphosate-resistant crops has led to weeds, such as marestail, that also are resistant to glyphosate, the herbicide used in Roundup. Bill…
The map comprises over a thousand individual images, recorded between May 2006 and December 2007. Because Venus is covered in clouds, normal cameras cannot see…
Pannes are waterlogged, low-oxygen zones of salt marshes. Despite the stresses associated with global warming, pannes are “plant diversity hotspots,” according…
As described in ASM International's Advanced Materials & Processes magazine, the limestone captures the sulfur oxides as they are formed, while the low burning…
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.12 C per decade June temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: ±0.00 C (about 0.00 degrees Fahrenheit)…
The researchers concluded that models of climate change may be underestimating how much water is likely to run off the land and back into the sea as…
The study, titled, “Environmental Manganese and Cancer Mortality Rates by County in North Carolina: An Ecological Study,” was published online last month by…
“Resource management and conservation in coastal waters must address a litany of impacts from human activities, from the land, such as urban runoff and other…
A new way of estimating species richness reported this month in the journal Ecology Letters by University of California, Berkeley, ecologist John Harte and…
Many Megacities such as Tokyo (pop. 36.000.000), New York (22.000.000) and London (12.000.000) are found in the coastal zone. Coastal protection measures give…
A destructive earthquake will strike a lone, wooden condominium in Japan next week, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Michael Symans will be on…
Increases in mysterious underground tremors observed in several active earthquake fault zones around the world could signal a build-up of stress at locked…
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