A new study led by WCS-India scientist Vidya Athreaya finds that certain landscapes of western India completely devoid of wilderness and with high human populations are crawling with a different kind of backyard ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 28, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

Some Mac users were taken by surprise Thursday as their computers stopped running programs written using the Java programming language after Apple blocked Java due to security problems.

Technology - Software

Jan 31, 2013 1.5 / 5 (8) 5

The remorse felt by Himali Chungda Sherpa after he killed three snow leopard cubs in retaliation for his lost cattle inspired him to set up a scheme to prevent other herders from doing the same.

Biology - Ecology

Dec 26, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 12

(Phys.org)—Just what you never wanted. Mac-based malware, just ponder that phrase alone, not Windows-based but Mac-based, that tricks users into paying subscription fees. The malware masquerades as an installer ...

Technology - Software

Dec 14, 2012 1.3 / 5 (12) 5 |

State media say a pair of mating Amur leopards was spotted in northeastern China, in another indication of a comeback for an extremely rare cat once thought to be next to extinction.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Dec 05, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

India's leopard population is at risk of being decimated as a result of rampant poaching fuelled by a thriving black market for its skins, a study by animal conservationists said on Friday.

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Sep 28, 2012 not rated yet 0

Researchers from the School of Biosciences at the Danau Girang Field Centre (DGFC) in Sabah, Malaysia have completed 18 months of a camera trapping project in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 13, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 0

Two snow leopards were captured, fitted with satellite collars, and released for the first time in Afghanistan by a team of Wildlife Conservation Society conservationists and Afghan veterinarians conducting ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 17, 2012 not rated yet 1

Nepal's elusive snow leopards, thought to number just 500 in the wild, are under threat from warmer and wetter weather in the Himalayas that is reducing their habitat, a new study says.

Biology - Ecology

Jul 17, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 1

For the first time, the den sites of two female snow leopards and their cubs have been located in Mongolia's Tost Mountains, with the first known videos taken of a mother and cubs, located and recorded by ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 12, 2012 not rated yet 0

A Chinese technology firm has filed a legal challenge accusing US giant Apple of infringing its patented voice recognition software with its Siri function on the iPhone, the company said Saturday.

Technology - Business

Jul 07, 2012 4.9 / 5 (15) 4

For Apple Inc. in China, it's been one step forward and two steps back when it comes to lawsuits.

Technology - Business

Jul 06, 2012 4.9 / 5 (9) 0

The first-known camera trap photos of an Amur leopard in China have recently been taken by protected area staff in Hunchun Amur Tiger National Nature Reserve in Jilin Province according to the Wildlife Conservation ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 25, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

The Wildlife Conservation Society commends the Russian government for creating a new national park to protect critically endangered Amur (Siberian) tigers and the world's rarest big cat: the Far Eastern leopard.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 13, 2012 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the wilds of New York City -- or as wild as you can get so close to skyscrapers -- scientists have found a new leopard frog species that for years biologists mistook for a more widespread ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

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