Conservationists on Thursday called for sanctions against the world's top offender nations in the illegal ivory trade to tackle a surge in poaching of African elephants.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 21, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—Researchers at Waseda University in Japan have built a robot rat they call WR-4, and whose purpose isto induce stress in lab rats. In studying the impact of stress inflicted on the lab rats, ...

Electronics - Robotics

Feb 13, 2013 4.4 / 5 (7) 8 |

Jane Goodall greets the audience by imitating a chimpanzee, then launches into an hour-long talk on her relationship with apes and how, from being a primatologist, she became an activist to protect them.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 10, 2013 4.6 / 5 (9) 0

Research reveals extent of shortcomings in UK justice and immigration to adequately define and intervene in such cases.

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Feb 08, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from New Zealand and Australia has found that cultural exchange in human populations sometimes occurs at a much slower rate than genetic divergence. As the group explains ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Feb 07, 2013 4.7 / 5 (10) 6 |

A fragment of human lower jaw recovered from a Serbian cave is the oldest human ancestor found in this part of Europe, who probably evolved under different conditions than populations that inhabited more ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Feb 06, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

The UK dog population is estimated to be around ten million, with dogs producing approximately 1,000 tonnes of excrement each day. New research has shown that dogs act as a major source of the parasite egg, Toxocara, which ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 05, 2013 not rated yet 0

Modern humans left Africa twice as early as previously thought, spreading in a number of climate-driven waves, new research suggests.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jan 30, 2013 3.8 / 5 (4) 11 |

An international team of researchers including Svante Pääbo and Qiaomei Fu of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, sequenced nuclear and mitochondrial DNA that had ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jan 21, 2013 4.8 / 5 (20) 21 |

Wildlife conservationists are well aware of the potential conflicts that exist between the endangered species they seek to protect and the human populations which inhabit areas where the animals live. Carnivores, ...

Biology - Ecology

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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)—During the past 13,000 years, Wyoming's Bighorn Basin has experienced significant increases in population growth—due primarily to periods of high effective moisture and moderate temperatures—according ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jan 04, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 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)—With the global population racing past seven billion, demographers and world leaders have been concerned with depletion of resources to support everyone. The future, though, may be less bleak ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 24, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 1

U.S. government health regulators say a genetically modified salmon that grows twice as fast as normal is unlikely to harm the environment, clearing the way for the first approval of a scientifically engineered animal for ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 21, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 37