A new study by scientists at the University of York and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) shows that bird species which have colonised the UK in recent decades breed initially almost exclusively in ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 10, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

A short journey from the skyscrapers at the hectic centre of Hong Kong, water buffaloes lumber over jungle-clad hills and through secluded villages where they once worked as farm animals.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 18, 2013 not rated yet 0

Since at least the 1970s, the population of critically endangered Sulawesi black macaques living in an Indonesian nature reserve has been dropping. But a new study by researchers at the University of Washington ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 23, 2013 not rated yet 0

Russia on Thursday decreed a national park in its remote Far Eastern Chukotka region, paving the way for a joint US-Russian nature reserve spanning the Bering Strait, an idea first proposed by the last Soviet ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 17, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

The head of Russia's Olympic committee said Wednesday that his country was set to host the greenest Games ever when the winter version of the sports extravaganza opens in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Jan 16, 2013 not rated yet 0

Competitive birdwatching might sound like an oxymoron. Try telling that to ornithologists from around the world racing around Peru on a six-day marathon vying to become best birder.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Dec 13, 2012 not rated yet 0

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

A new study led by researchers from the University of York suggests protected areas in East Africa are not conserving plants such as the iconic Acacia tree.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 07, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—A Swiss primatologist who arrived at The University of Western Australia in April to work in the School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology probably won't mind too much if his students start ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 05, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

Concerned about habitat changes due to logging and rapid development, Universiti Teknologi MARA researchers recently conducted a study on the diversity of the important Hymenoptera group, which includes bees, ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 01, 2012 not rated yet 0

Four new reservoirs linked to rice cultivation built in the middle basin of the Guadiana river in the middle of the 1990's have allowed various migratory dabbling duck species to significantly increase in ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 30, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 0

Amphibians are the vertebrate group that is more likely to become roadkill in Catalonia, even more so than reptiles, mammals and birds. This is the case according to an international team of scientists who ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 24, 2012 not rated yet 0

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.

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 24, 2012 3 / 5 (1) 0

Poland will invest 50 billion zlotys (15.5 billion euros) in the exploration of shale gas by 2020, Finance Minister Mikolaj Budzanowski said Saturday.

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 13, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0

Will future conservation policies have to take account of the genetic diversity within each species ? A large-scale study into plants found at high altitude throughout the Alps and the Carpathians, has enabled ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 08, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0