New Caledonian crows can spontaneously solve problems without planning their actions, a study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals. 

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 25, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 4 |

We're not used to thinking of ourselves as animals. But as Jason Samson sees it, climate is as important in shaping the distribution and movement of humans as it is in other animals. The McGill-trained ecologist and fellow ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 25, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Efforts to stem the worrying loss of Earth's dwindling natural resources received a boost Saturday when a UN conference in India agreed to double biodiversity aid to poor countries.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 20, 2012 not rated yet 0

Negotiators sought Friday to persuade wealthy nations to bankroll ambitious targets for stemming the loss of Earth's dwindling natural resources.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 19, 2012 not rated yet 0

We live in a human-dominated world. For many of our fellow creatures, this means a fragmented world, as human conduits to friends, family, and resources sever corridors that link the natural world. Our expanding ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 18, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Representatives of the Encyclopedia of Earth and the Encyclopedia of Life will be on the University of Washington campus Wednesday, Oct. 24, for the public launch of an encyclopedia unique to Puget Sound. ...

Biology - Other

Oct 18, 2012 not rated yet 0

An environmental group said Wednesday that a vast swath of Madagascar's unique palm tree species was threatened with extinction. Their dying out would harm the livelihoods of local people as well as endanger several animal ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 17, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—Climate change causes extinctions not only as a result of species intolerance to high temperature, but more commonly via a variety of related factors that alter a species' interactions with other ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 17, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 3 |

More than 70 environment ministers meet in India on Wednesday for key talks on halting the depletion of Earth's natural resources, under pressure to put up money to match their political pledges.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 17, 2012 not rated yet 0

China's beloved national symbol—the panda—may have been seen quite differently by ancient humans: as food.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 15, 2012 2 / 5 (2) 4

Do you have it in mind to go to a mountain top and study beetles that nobody else has ever seen? Well, there are two fewer such mountains available now that beetle species discovered on Mont Tohiea and Mont ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 10, 2012 not rated yet 0

One of the biggest scientific challenges is the classification of the natural world, especially the protists, which are eukaryotic microorganisms. While the classification proposed by Sina Adl et al. (2005) ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Oct 08, 2012 4.8 / 5 (11) 3 |

(Phys.org)—Rapid, accurate genetic sequencing soon may be within reach of every doctor's office if recent research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Columbia University's ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Oct 03, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 1 |

An article recently pub­lished in the journal Food and Chem­ical Tox­i­cology shows the results of a two-​​year study on the health effects of a corn species pro­duced by the agri­cul­tural giant ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Oct 03, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—Yesterday there were just 15, but today there are at least 192 species of South and Central American orthocentrine parasitoid wasps, scientists report in the journal Proceedings of the Royal So ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 03, 2012 not rated yet 1 |