Emerging from the worst drought in 50 years, US farmers are bracing for long-term challenges from climate change including blasting heat and more capricious rainfall.
Environment
Mar 13, 2013
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A Texas A&M AgriLife Research animal nutritionist is trying to decrease the severity of frothy bloat, the major non-pathogenic cause of death and reduced performance in cattle grazing hard red winter wheat in the southern ...
Other
Mar 4, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Researchers working to increase the number of bridled nailtail wallabies in Queensland Australia, have discovered that stopping the practice of culling dingoes in the area did not change the number of feral cats ...
For the first time, scientists at UNSW have investigated the likely impact of planned environmental flows on farmlands and nature reserves around the Murray-Darling Basin.
Environment
Oct 24, 2012
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The earth's limited surface is expected to stretch to everything: food for soon to be nine billion people, feed for our beef cattle and fowl, fuel for our cars, forests for our paper, cotton for our clothes. What is more, ...
Environment
Sep 17, 2012
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For much of the year drought has been plaguing American grasslands. But a recent study found that grasses do not appear to be losing the turf war against climate when it comes to surviving with little precipitation.
Environment
Aug 8, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Coral reefs and seashores largely look the way they do because large fish and urchins eat most of the seaweed that might otherwise cover them, but a major new study has found that the greatest impact of all ...
Ecology
May 31, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) have provided the first evidence that engineered nanoparticles are able to accumulate ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 18, 2012
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The people of medieval Iceland survived disaster by sticking with traditional practices, an innovative new study suggests.
Earth Sciences
Mar 22, 2012
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If there was a 'Just So' story for how the zebra got its stripes, I'm sure that Rudyard Kipling would have come up with an amusing and entertaining camouflage explanation. But would he have come up with the explanation that ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 9, 2012
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