Ecology, The Environment and Conservation
This complex theme deals primarily with interactions between organisms and the environmental factors that impact them, but to a greater extent between individual inanimate environmental factors.
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Earthwatch Helps Shed Light On Threats To Wetland Wildlife
During the six year research programme, coordinated by Earthwatch scientists Drs. Chris Joyce and Niall Burnside (University of Brighton), and Elle Puurmann…
New threat to Lake Victoria?
Two hydroelectricity dams appear to be threatening the health of Lake Victoria – and of the people living along its shores who depend on the lake for food. A…
Sediment prediction tools off the mark
Boomer has been examining the tools scientists and managers use to predict how much sediment runs into the Chesapeake Bay, and by her account, they are way off…
River plants may play major role in health of ocean coastal waters
This work, which appeared in the Dec. 25 issue of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM), describes the physics of water flow around aquatic plants and…
Stepping on the gas: accelerating catalyst development for cleaner fuels
These types of catalyst play an important role in processes such as gas to liquids (GTL) and coal to liquids (CTL) which are used to convert feedstocks such as…
Elephant engineers
It is like the premise of a popular home improvement show: in the before photos, the surroundings are undesirable and in the after shot there’s lots of…