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 finding suggests that parts of the raw materials to make the first molecules of DNA and RNA may have come from the stars. The scientists, from Europe and…
Climate experts agree that the seriousness of manmade global warming depends greatly upon how clouds in the climate system respond to the small warming…
Dr. Rüdiger Giese from the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) and his team receive the “Technology Transfer Award 2008” from the Technology Foundation…
This complex of ancient magmas is known to have formed some two billion years ago, but the source of its metallic riches has been a matter of scientific…
The Wildlife Conservation Society has launched a study in Chile’s Karukinka reserve on Tierra del Fuego to help protect the guanaco – a wild cousin of the…
Research indicates that Illinois growers who plant corn or soybeans near the end of June can expect a 50 percent reduction in crop yield, according to a…
Research icebreaker Polarstern of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research of the Helmholtz Association puts out to the Arctic on June 12th…
The findings raise concerns about the thawing of permafrost, or permanently frozen soil, and the potential consequences for sensitive ecosystems, human…
May headlines:Tropics see 5th coolest month;Globe coolest since Jan. 2000Global trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decadeMay temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: – 0.18 C (about 0.32 degrees Fahrenheit) below…
Writing in International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, Peter van der Gaag of the Holland Innovation Team, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, has hit on…
A quaint community garden in New York—dedicated in part to growing food for the hungry—is about to become a small part of a big $100 million effort to fight…
On June 11th, roughly 50 employees from HSBC, the world’s largest bank, will abandon their offices for a day to catalog hundreds of trees that were planted by…
Comparing the new family tree with existing lists of endangered bird species, author Dr Gavin Thomas from the NERC Centre for Population Biology at Imperial…
Scientists were surprised with findings of a recent study that reveals many animal species believed to persist in small contained areas actually need broad,…
Today, the guanaco population has dwindled to perhaps half a million animals that live in highly fragmented populations due to habitat loss and competition…
Today Antarctica is a harsh world. Devoid of trees and bushes, it is largely covered in snow and ice and battered by frigid winds. There are no land-based…
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