The London Zoo is urgently seeking a female mate for the last-known males of a critically endangered fish species.

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 10, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Experts from the Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes and the University of Barcelona (UB) collected and studied different crustacean specimens during recent expeditions to Madagascar, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 15, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

Tropical Cyclone Anais, the first tropical cyclone of the Southern Indian Ocean's tropical cyclone season, has strengthened over the weekend of Oct. 13 and 14 and by Oct. 15, the storm was packing sustained ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Oct 15, 2012 not rated yet 0

In the hit cartoon film "Madagascar", the island's lemurs are a lovable bunch of extroverts, but they are also among the world's most threatened primates, conservationists warned on Monday.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 15, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

More than a third of the world's population is online while mobile phone uptake increased by more than 600 million in 2011 to around six billion, a UN agency said Thursday.

Technology - Telecom

Oct 11, 2012 not rated yet 0

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a technique that uses an electronic interface to remotely control, or steer, cockroaches.

Technology - Engineering

Sep 06, 2012 3.9 / 5 (15) 9 |

A recent study, by an international research group led by Lounes Chickhi, group leader at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, and CNRS researcher in Toulouse, France, questions the prevailing account that ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 23, 2012 4.5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Unfair and exploitative political agreements allow Europeans to eat fish from the plates of developing countries, according to a study led by University of British Columbia researchers.

Biology - Ecology

Jul 03, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Climate change will make conservation of biodiversity, and all the associated human benefits such as clean water and clean air, more challenging and expensive, with costs increasing by more than 100 percent ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 17, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 0

It can be difficult to uncover the behavior of small, shy, nocturnal primates like the brown mouse lemur (Microcebus rufus), especially in the dense rainforests of Madagascar where this lemur lives. New re ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 26, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since the island of Madagascar was first visited by people, some two thousand years ago, there has been speculation about the unique plants and animals that live on the world’s ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 20, 2012 4.5 / 5 (6) 0 |

The hunt was on Monday for a penguin that scaled a sheer rock face to escape from a Tokyo zoo, and was last seen swimming in a river in the Japanese capital.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 05, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 2

A new study by the University of California, Berkeley, Wildlife Conservation Society, and others uses a new scientific methodology for establishing marine protected areas in Madagascar that offers a "diversified ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 24, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Four new species of miniaturized lizards have been identified in Madagascar. These lizards, just tens of millimeters from head to tail and in some cases small enough to stand on the head of a match, rank among the smallest ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 15, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

The famed "corpse flower" plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that i ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 07, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |