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…
“There is no question now that the climate is changing on a global scale,” says Takle, an Iowa State University professor of geological and atmospheric…
“New technology and global observations have improved resource-management decision making from disaster detection and mitigation of fires, insect outbreaks,…
These results from the decade-long Free Air Carbon Enrichment (FACE) experiment in a Duke University forest suggest that proposals to bank extra CO2 from human…
The DNA of ancient microorganisms, long frozen in glaciers, may return to life as the glaciers melt, according to a paper published online this week in the…
The aircraft had been flying a sensor developed by the University of Colorado at Boulder, NOAA and U.S. Department of Agriculture that could provide detailed…
Ocean historians affiliated with the Census of Marine Life have painted the first detailed portrait of a burst of fishing from 1900 to 1950 that preceded the…
Professor Dirk Werling from the Royal Veterinary College is heading a £2.4m project, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council…
Intense rainfall in the region often leads to flooding and disease outbreaks.The analysis by a team of U.S. and British researchers shows that unusually heavy…
A reversal of tectonic plate motion between Acapulco and Mexico City in the last half of 2006 probably didn't ease seismic strain in the region or the specter…
The cross-party Joint Scrutiny Committee is the third parliamentary committee to say aviation must be included in climate change planning, together with…
As part of the IWAREMA (Integrated Water Resource management for Zambia) project, funded through ESA’s Data User Element, data from ESA’s multispectral MERIS…
The new data shows that many previous assessments of daily summer temperature change underestimated heat wave events in western Europe by approximately 30…
The material, known as LSCF, has the remarkable property of being able to filter oxygen out of the air. By burning fuel in pure oxygen, it is possible to…
Scientists have concluded that the global warming trend caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases is a major contributor to the melting of Himalayan and other…
In short, they are suffering from stress. Scientists from VIB, associated with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), have revealed a new mechanism…
State forests provide the major honey resource for the beekeeping industry in NSW.While Forests NSW has a number of management practices in place to retain…
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