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 warming of the world ocean is consistent with the amount of warming expected as a result of the observed increase in greenhouse gases in earth's…
The Baltic Center for Biotechnology and Innovative Diagnostics, BioBaltica, was established in 2008 as a joint venture between the Medical University of…
An assessment of the illegal ivory trade in Viet Nam said Vietnamese illegal ivory prices could be the highest in the world, with reports of tusks selling for…
These findings are helping scientists understand the full spectrum of motions occurring on the fault and may yield new insights into the events that lead to…
Permafrost is ground that is frozen year round at least two years in a row. North of the Arctic Circle permafrost is common due to the cold climate.For several…
It is premature to conclude that human activity–particularly greenhouse warming–has had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricanes, and Model simulations…
In the nearly 50 years of meteorological satellite observations, the data have increasingly been used to complement research satellite data for purposes of…
The Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) is the first geologic study of the underwater subduction zone faults that give rise to the massive…
The study, which appears in this week’s edition of the journal Diversity and Distributions, is part of a global conservation assessment of the rare…
The EPA issued a final ruling on Dec. 18 that required the reporting of continuous air releases of these gases by large confined animal feeding operations to…
If you happen to be one of 15 student engineers at the University of Iowa, you roll up your sleeves and design a $5, hand-held device to sanitize water and…
“If we run our cars on biofuels produced in the tropics, chances will be good that we are effectively burning rainforests in our gas tanks,” she warned. Policies favoring biofuel crop production may inadvertently contribute to, not slow, the process of climate change, Gibbs said. Such an environmental disaster could be “just around the corner without more thoughtful energy policies that consider potential ripple effects on tropical forests,” she added. …
A University of Michigan researcher is developing a unique way to reconcile these crucial data. “If we're going to adapt to climate change, we need to be able…
If you are a fish eater, it's likely that the salmon you had for dinner was not caught in the wild, but was instead grown in a mesh cage submerged in the open…
Across the vast landscape of the Earth, where are scientists likely to find the clearest signals of climate change so that they can predict future impact?…
“In order to train masters and doctoral students there has to be a research effort,” said Andrew Nyblade, professor of geosciences, Penn State and co-director…
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