Efforts to conserve biodiversity in the UK, Belgium and Netherlands may be working, despite the widespread perception that wildlife is in terminal decline, a new study suggests.

Biology - Ecology

May 23, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

A warming world is putting crops at risk, according to scientists who studied how the weather affects French maize yields.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 28, 2013 3.8 / 5 (4) 3

Resolving the debate over how best to feed a growing global population requires basic information about current and potential yields at local levels around the world, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln agronomist said.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 17, 2013 not rated yet 1

Scientists hope to gain a better understanding of the causes of oxygen depletion among fish populations with an EU-funded project called HYPOX.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 04, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—A University of Cambridge's Department of Engineering study suggests that offshore wind farms could be 100 per cent more efficient in terms of energy payback if manufacturers embraced new methods ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Sep 17, 2012 4.6 / 5 (5) 3 |

A Cambridge University study suggests that offshore wind farms could be 100 per cent more efficient in terms of energy payback if manufacturers embraced new methods for making the structures that support ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Aug 17, 2012 3.9 / 5 (12) 25 |

Globally speaking, the yield from crops from organic farming is on average twenty percent lower than from crops grown according to conventional farming methods. This is the finding of a so-called meta-study carried out by ...

Biology - Other

Mar 01, 2012 1 / 5 (1) 0