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…
Infection is favoured by water stress towards the end of the cycle, and African regions regularly hit by drought, such as Senegal, Niger and Mali, are thus at…
In Africa today, 75-80% of the population live in rural areas. For 30 years, very little international aid has been given to those who live primarily from…
The new approach modifies conventional methods for producing liquid fuels from biomass by adding hydrogen from a “carbon-free” energy source, such as solar or…
Mark Serreze, a senior research scientist at CU-Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center who led the study synthesizing results from recent research, said…
Scientists have identified four Antarctic glaciers that pose a threat to future sea levels using satellite observations, according to a study published in the…
The news is reported in the latest edition of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.Concerns about the spread of bird flu…
Professor Hywel Morgan (School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS)) and Dr Matt Mowlem (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS)) and colleagues…
UNICEF is leading the reform process in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene sector and has been mandated to provide a focal point for co-ordinating activities in…
This finding, to be presented at the Felid Biology and Conservation Conference, in Oxford (UK), will allow the analysis of fertility of lynxes in the…
By absorbing sunlight, black-carbon particles heat the upper atmosphere while also reducing radiation at the surface. The new data indicates that the warming…
In the debate over alternative energy resources, geothermal technology has received scant media attention. Advocates call it one of the cleanest, sustainable…
More than three-quarters of the particulate pollution known as black carbon transported at high altitudes over the West Coast during spring is from Asian…
Arsenic has a number of known serious health effects, including increased cancer risk, higher frequency of cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Until now, it…
This marks the start of a long-term European commitment to monitor the recovery of the ozone layer and to support the monitoring and forecasting of air…
A popular game fish mistaken by scientists for a dog snapper is actually a new species discovered among the reefs of the Abrolhos region of the South Atlantic…
The arrival of genetically modified crops has added another level of complexity to farming in the developing world, says a sociocultural anthropologist at…
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