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 research is published in today's online issue of the journal Environmental Science & Technology.Mercury is a naturally occurring element, but some 2000…
Using a general model of desertification, researchers from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Agrónomos of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid…
That’s the latest startling evidence to emerge from research into the likely fate of reefs under climate change and rising sea levels, at the ARC Centre of…
For endangered coral reefs, not all plant-eating fish are created equal.A report scheduled to be published this week in the early edition of the journal…
Global trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decadeSeptember Temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: +0.16 C (about 0.29 degrees Fahrenheit) above20-year average for September….
School of Natural Resources & Agricultural Sciences professor Chien-Lu Ping published his latest findings in the Nature Geoscience and Scientific American Web…
For endangered coral reefs, not all plant-eating fish are created equal.A report scheduled to be published online this week in the early edition of journal…
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $4 million to a group of Philippine and American scientists led by Oregon Health & Science University to aid in…
“It's important to understand the health impacts of wildfires,” says scientist Gabriele Pfister of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), who is…
Biological products, known as biopesticides, can play a significant role in a more sustainable food chain as chemical pesticides are withdrawn due to…
Although more than 99 percent of Alaska's large glaciers are retreating, a handful, surprisingly, are advancing.The Glaciers of Alaska, authored by USGS…
NASA researcher Sirpa Hakkinen of Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.,…
‘We got some absolutely amazing footage from 7700 metres. More fish than we or anyone in the world would ever have thought possible at these depths,’ says…
Air is one of the leading Spanish projects participating in the scheme through the Environmental Software and Modelling Group based at the Universidad…
Their findings are presented this month in the international journal Environmental Pollution and are significant because nitrogen from air pollution causes…
In an article published Friday (Oct. 3) in the journal Science, Purdue University agricultural economist Otto Doering and a team of 22 other scientists write…
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