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…
So-called CO2-free power stations will be an important topic for the German EU presidency starting in January 2007. The Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and…
Dr. John Sij, Experiment Station agronomist in Vernon, and his team are working on what might possibly be a showcase study for Texas. He and his team are…
Seventy percent to 80 percent of the total environmental impact is from automobiles, air transport, food (meat and dairy, chief among them), home and related…
Her dissertation titled: “Innovation Systems and Development: The Journey of a Beleaguered Nile Perch Fishery in Uganda,” documents the actions taken by a…
New research finds that every U.S Gulf Coast bay in Texas and Louisiana is vulnerable to significant flooding and expansion within the coming century due to a…
The Chicxulub impact may, in fact, have been the lesser and earlier of a series of meteors and volcanic eruptions that pounded life on Earth for more than…
“When most people think about climate change, they think of heat stress from heat waves,” said Cindy Parker, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of…
The evidence was found in an exceptionally well preserved duck-billed dinosaur dug from the rocks of the Judith River Formation near Malta, Mont. Assistant…
The discovery, consisting of phosphorus-enriched soils inside what appear to be the remains of horse corrals beside pit houses, matches what would be expected…
“Satellites orbiting Mars show us images of canyons and gullies that appear to have been created by a flood or rapid out-washing,” says Ron Peterson, Queen’s…
How regions can cope with the consequences of natural and human-driven changes to the Earth's environment, what future changes they can expect, and what the…
A popular volcano demonstration in grade school science class rivets students' attention as it spews bubbly liquid over a tabletop, but it comes up short in…
Human and animal skeletal remains indicate possible royal cemetery, ritual sacrificeAn ancient, untouched Syrian tomb that wowed the archaeological world on…
The once westward roll of what is now the world's largest river was caused by a long-gone highland near what today is the river's mouth. That highland was…
Whether you favor meteor impacts, volcanic eruptions, cosmic rays, epidemics, or some other cause for the worst mass extinction events in Earth's history, no…
Seven Norwegian research groups, led by the research organisation SINTEF, are to find out whether a land-based laboratory of this sort can be set up.“Such a…
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