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…
This was the call from more than 20 organizations, including many United Nations agencies, who today ended a three-day meeting in Geneva held to prepare for…
The study, to be published in the Feb. 4-8 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Online Early Edition, outlines the most vulnerable areas of earth…
A group of researchers from the Andalusian Institute for Earth Sciences (CSIC) and the Department of Geodynamics of the University of Granada described for the…
The GeoForschungsZentrum views a closer cooperation with the AEON Institute (Africa Earth Observatory Network) at the University of the Cape Town in the future…
The underlying structure of a fault determines whether an earthquake rupture will jump from one fault to another, magnifying its size and potential…
WMO opened on 4 February the first meeting of the International Organizing Committee of the World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3) in Geneva in 2009. More than 20…
Climate change, workers rights and pollution effects have been propelled into the boardroom, design studio and high street and as a result, over 20 major…
Under the agreement, the European Environment Agency (EEA) will use a service, which combines and processes satellite data with surface measurements from 29…
Academics believe many South East Asian nations have been misled into accepting that increased pollution is a price worth paying for the future well-being of…
A hyperspectral look, that is.Nansen, small grains entomologist at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Lubbock, uses a hyperspectral camera to…
In the renowned magazine “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” (PNAS) an international team of researchers describes, where small changes can have…
Published today by the prestigious international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), the researchers have coined a new term,…
Sediments accumulate on deep ocean floors at a rate of a few centimetres every thousand years. The study of this – called stratigraphy – involves drilling…
The link between rainfall and the day of the week is evident in data from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, known as TRMM. Midweek storms…
The research team is the first to show that the same biochemical process protects an entire plant family – grasses – from the devastating, fungal pathogen. The…
Dr. Mike Foster, a research scientist with the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Lubbock, said he is looking at the possibility of developing the…
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