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 core, which is longer than 1 1/2 football fields, is the longest extracted from an arctic glacier in the United States, according to Matt Nolan, an…
Royal Society of Chemistry says it’s wrong to shower for more than two minutes.Water-wasting and uncaring about gels, shampoos and soap going down the…
Even gemmologists, i.e. experts in precious stones and pearls, cannot distinguish between pearls from Japan and China with the naked eye. However, Japanese…
This year, the world and, in particular, developing countries and the poor have been hit by both food and energy crises. As a consequence, prices for many…
The Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) “Clean Sky” is the name of the hitherto largest EU research programme for the advancement of sustainability and…
Now, Eawag has developed a model that allows vulnerable areas to be pinpointed using existing data on geology and soil properties. This has also enabled the…
DZULKIFLI ABDUL RAZAKUnveiled by the Sultan of Perak, the centre is poised to be a beacon for sustainability in seeking new solutions to old problems. And why…
A new NOAA coral bleaching prediction system indicates that there will be some bleaching in the Caribbean later this year, but the event will probably not be…
The increase in global demand for wood requires increase in forest productivity. There is, therefore, a need to invest more in the research and development…
Researchers from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) have visualized them for the first time,…
Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish fossils have filled a puzzling gap in the story of evolution and answered a…
Envent Holding Philippines Incorporated announced today the signing of a Geothermal Service Contract for Biliran Island in Leyte, Philippines. Envent is a…
A new study of the potential ecological impact of various management strategies published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology found…
This animation, comprised of images acquired by Envisat’s Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) between 30 May and 9 July 2008, shows the break-up event…
Recently released research in Agronomy Journal questions whether more precise management is necessarily more efficient. They discovered that the law of…
Application of waste to meet the nitrogen needs of a crop results in application of excess phosphorus which increases the potential for environmental…
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