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…
A new Cornell study, published online in Nature Geoscience, quantified the amount of black carbon in Australian soils and found that there was far more than…
Global land use patterns and increasing pressures on water resources demand creative urban stormwater management. Traditional stormwater management focuses on…
Today’s global road emissions have a strong and long-lasting effect on climate. After 100 years these emissions will lead to a temperature increase that is six…
Members of the audience had to make up their minds whether to vote with their heads or their hearts as five eminent scientists battled it out during the…
The results identify how the main features of the countryside have changed and include fields, woods, ponds, heath and moorland areas as well as linear…
Global trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decadeOctober temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.:+0.17 C (about 0.31° Fahrenheit) above 20-year…
But those missing markers of radiation, remnants from atomic bomb tests a half-century ago, foretell much greater threat to the half-billion or more people…
Imperial College London researchers say their work is a major breakthrough as current methods for analysing zinc pollution only measure pollution in the…
Although the Earth has undergone significant changes in the past, there is mounting evidence that the changes imposed, mostly by human activity, during the…
These sentiments were found in a public survey released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) at a national conference on restoring bison…
Researchers are now going to study the degradation processes and test new methods for determine their speed, including the monitoring of how much oxygen is…
Scientists have developed a material made out of a mixture of silica and water which can soak up large quantities of methane molecules. The material looks and…
The half a million pound project is focused on improving the ‘form-fill and seal’ type of packaging used for foods such as rice, pasta and crisps. By designing…
The risks of flooding, marine erosion and landslips are a hot topic for engineers, planners and coastal managers as well as for people who live on vulnerable…
“Climate change is a key public health challenge. Health professionals need to understand the consequences of climate change for health, take appropriate steps…
Funded with monies administered under the Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM – the Irish Sea Fisheries Board) National Development Plan over the last two years, 4,063…
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