The often damaging impacts of intensive agriculture on nearby streams, rivers, and their wildlife has been well documented in temperate zones, such as North America and Europe. Yet a new study in an important ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 24, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

New research finds that double cropping—planting two crops in a field in the same year—is associated with positive signs of economic development for rural Brazilians. The research focused the state of Mato Grosso, the ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Apr 22, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

(Phys.org)—Social networks can be used to describe the sexual interactions in animal populations and reveal which individuals are directly competing in the 'mating game', according to new Oxford University ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 22, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

A changing climate could have a drastic impact on fish populations in the tropics, but according to new research it's likely to boost stocks in some cooler waters.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 30, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Using the size of guard cells in fossil plants to predict how much DNA each cell contained (the genome size), researchers have discovered that variations in genome sizes over geological time correlate with ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Oct 25, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

The spread of disease between species is a "one health" issue affecting both human health and wildlife conservation according to a new set of papers published today by scientists from the Royal Society and ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 11, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Mange and viral diseases have a substantial, recurring impact on the health and size of reintroduced wolf packs living in Yellowstone National Park, according to ecologists.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 10, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Quite often, those people who take care of animals learn over time which are smarter than others. They don't need to test them, they see it in the way the animals behave. Unfortunately, that's ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 30, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 3 |

Climate change, habitat destruction, pollution and invasive species are all involved in the global crisis of amphibian declines and extinctions, researchers suggest in a new analysis, but increasingly these ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 18, 2012 3 / 5 (3) 1 |

From cable TV news pundits to red-meat speeches in Iowa and New Hampshire, our nation's deep political stereotypes are on full display: Conservatives paint self-indulgent liberals as insufferably absent on urgent national ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Jan 05, 2012 4.2 / 5 (16) 55 |

Studies in temperate regions have demonstrated that genetic differences between individual trees affect the ecological communities and ecosystem processes associated with them. Now scientists at Manchester ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 05, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A lot of people who have gone to the zoo have become the targets of feces thrown by apes or monkeys, and left no doubt wondering about the so-called intellectual capacity of a beast that would ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 30, 2011 4.2 / 5 (26) 44 |

Research from the University of Sheffield comparing rats and mice with their distance relatives the marsupial, suggests that moveable whiskers were an important milestone in the evolution of mammals from reptiles.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 10, 2011 4.5 / 5 (2) 0 |