The University of Stirling is to lead a new project to develop a strategy for using nutrient-rich aquatic biomass waste – from ponds, wetlands and other water-bodies – in farming, as an environmentally ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 22, 2013 not rated yet 1

In the United States, rivers and their floodplains are well-documented and monitored. Ecuador's largest river, however, remains largely mysterious. Research led by Michigan State University is helping the ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 20, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Using the same devious mechanism that enables some bacteria to shrug off powerful antibiotics, scientists have developed solar-powered nanofilters that remove antibiotics from the water in lakes and rivers ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

May 01, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

Parts of the UK are at greater risk of invasion by non-native aquatic species than previously thought, according to new research. The first to include human factors in models used to predict where invasive species will arrive ...

Biology - Ecology

May 01, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 1

It turns out the white-lipped peccary—a piglike animal from Central and South America—will settle for fish when fruits (its main food) are no longer on the menu, according to the Wildlife Conservation ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 30, 2013 not rated yet 0

Most of us want to swim in a lake where we can see our toes. Clear, oxygen-rich water supports not only human swimmers, but also intricate webs of animal and microbial life. That life can be disrupted when ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 23, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

Anxiety-moderating drugs that reach waterways via wastewater create fearless and asocial fish that eat more quickly than normal. These behavioral changes can have serious ecological consequences. This is ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 14, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 1 |

(Phys.org)—Viruses are well known for making people sick, but a new study provides evidence for the first time of viral infections in tiny marine crustaceans called copepods.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jan 16, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Research by Indiana University paleobotanist David L. Dilcher and colleagues in Europe sheds new light on what Charles Darwin famously called "an abominable mystery": the apparently sudden appearance ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Dec 06, 2012 5 / 5 (5) 2 |

In 1990, Northeastern lakes were becoming more acidic, threatening fish and other aquatic life and conjuring images of a future where lakes—even those in remote wilderness—were barren.

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 21, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 4

One of the most invasive species on the planet is able to source food from the land as well as its usual food sources in the water, research from Queen Mary, University of London has found.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 03, 2012 4.8 / 5 (5) 2 |

Researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science continue to monitor the algal blooms that have been discoloring Chesapeake Bay waters during the last few weeks. These "red tides" occur in the lower ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jul 27, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

After Brian Griffin pulls his boat out of West Loon Lake, a couple of weeds dangle from his trailer and propeller.

Biology - Ecology

Jul 09, 2012 not rated yet 2

A biological filter to remove estrogens from waste water and drinking water. The 15 Bielefeld students submitting this project to the 'international Genetically Engineered Machine competition' (iGEM) at the ...

Technology - Engineering

Jun 25, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0

Chlorothalonil, one of the world's most common fungicides used pervasively on food crops and golf courses, was lethal to a wide variety of freshwater organisms in a new study, University of South Florida researchers said ...

Biology - Ecology

May 16, 2012 not rated yet 0