A prestigious group of scientists from around the world is warning that population growth, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems, and climate change may be driving Earth toward an irreversible change ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 06, 2012 3.8 / 5 (68) 137 |

A new Dartmouth College study finds human-caused climate change may have little impact on many species of tropical lizards, contradicting a host of recent studies that predict their widespread extinction in a rapidly warming ...

Biology - Ecology

May 17, 2013 4.7 / 5 (7) 0 |

(Phys.org) —Warm nights might be more important than hot days in determining how species respond to climate change. "Rising minimum temperatures may be the best way to predict how climate change will a ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 23, 2013 3.4 / 5 (10) 4 |

Cryptic comments seem to have an ambiguous, obscure or hidden meaning. In biology, cryptic species are outwardly indistinguishable groups whose differences are hidden inside their genes.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 12, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 1 |

(Phys.org) —A team of Canadian researchers has found that anthropogenic noise (noise created by people that impacts other species) in urban areas leads to less songbird diversity. In their paper published ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 12, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

Changes to the temperature and chemistry of Earth's atmosphere are causing fundamental changes to the ocean, too. The water is getting warmer and more acidic, and those changes may reconfigure the microbial ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 18, 2013 4 / 5 (4) 8 |

Henry David Thoreau obsessively recorded the flowering time of plants around Concord, Mass., in the 1850s, while Japanese naturalists took keen note of the flowering time of cherry blossom trees for centuries before that. ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 12, 2013 2.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

A team of scientists, led by researchers at Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology, has determined that the recent widespread die-off of Colorado trembling aspen trees is a direct result of decreased precipitation exacerbated ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 11, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 8 |

In contrast to climate change, there is no coordinated global system in place for measuring and reporting on biodiversity change or loss. An international team of biologists is now addressing this gap.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 17, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Many species of fruit fly lack the ability to adapt effectively to predicted increases in global temperatures and may face extinction in the near future, according to new research.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 18, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 1 |

(Phys.org)—Can an abundance of sea otters help reverse a principal cause of global warming?

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 07, 2012 4.4 / 5 (5) 25 |

(Phys.org) -- Two new studies by scientists at UC Berkeley provide a clearer picture of why some species move in response to climate change, and where they go.

Biology - Ecology

Aug 16, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

The chronic drought that hit western North America from 2000 to 2004 left dying forests and depleted river basins in its wake and was the strongest in 800 years, scientists have concluded, but they say those ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jul 29, 2012 4.3 / 5 (19) 38 |

A large, global move to produce more energy from forest biomass may be possible and already is beginning in some places, but scientists say in a new analysis that such large-scale bioenergy production from ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 18, 2012 4.3 / 5 (3) 2 |

(Phys.org) -- Global warming may initially make the grass greener, but not for long, according to new research conducted at Northern Arizona University.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 10, 2012 3.9 / 5 (18) 163 |