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…
A paper in this week's issue of Nature by University of California, Berkeley, geophysicists demolishes one of the key arguments against the past presence of…
Action to close over 130,000 square miles of the Northern Bering Sea to bottomtrawling is an important step for the health of Alaska’s oceans and the seafoodindustry, MCA executive director David Benton said today. The North Pacific…
The Marine Conservation Alliance (MCA) supports action today by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) to close all federal waters north of the…
The findings create a more complex view of the carbon cycle in forests, where it was already known that logging or other stand-replacement events – whether…
The SciDev.Net spotlight highlights the current status and future prospects for agricultural biotechnology in sub-Saharan Africa. The collection includes a…
Throughout the Arctic Arc expedition, which marks the International Polar Year, Alan Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer have been collecting snow-depth data for ESA's…
The first buoy to monitor ocean acidification has been launched in the Gulf of Alaska. Attached to the 10-foot-diameter buoy are sensors to measure climate…
Darkness and freezing temperatures isolate the Antarctic continent during the Southern Hemisphere winter so the only people who can actually go to the…
Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Professor Chris Rapley, said: “Satellite observations show us that the polar ice is responding more quickly to…
The bowhead whale, devastated in the 19th and early 20th centuries by commercial whaling fleets, has been a food staple for Eskimos and other indigenous arctic…
Carbon capture and storage, also called carbon sequestration, traps carbon dioxide after it is produced and injects it underground. The gas never enters the…
Currently UK shoppers have to pay twice as much for some organic products. Organic apples, for example, are around double the price of conventionally grown…
Genetically modified (GM) crops may contribute to increased productivity in sustainable agriculture, according to a groundbreaking study published in the June…
Palaeoclimate data shows that the ocean's currents (like the Gulf Stream and its North Atlantic deep water partner) are capable of shifting gears very…
After more than 10 years of research and development, the SMOS mission is adopting a completely new approach in the field of remote sensing by employing a…
For more than a decade ecologists have wanted to create an observatory for understanding complex ecological processes at multiple scales—from continental-scale…
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