Millions of birds that stop at coastal wetlands during annual migrations could die as rising sea levels and land reclamation wipe out their feeding grounds, researchers warned Monday.

Space & Earth - Environment

May 06, 2013 4 / 5 (4) 1

Figs and fig trees are familiar to a wide cross-section of human society, both as a common food and for their spiritual importance. What is less well understood is the global nature of this association between figs and humans, ...

Biology - Ecology

May 02, 2013 3.2 / 5 (6) 0 |

Australia was first settled by between 1,000 and 3,000 humans around 50,000 years ago, but the population crashed during the Ice Age before recovering to a peak of some 1.2 million people around five centuries ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 23, 2013 4.8 / 5 (15) 3

Traditional community-run marine reserves and fisheries can play a big role in helping to restore and maintain fish numbers in stressed developing nations' coral reef fisheries.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 01, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —A cloud's class and status matters to the climate. That's what researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found when they separated tropical clouds into seven categories. Clouds with ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 29, 2013 4 / 5 (3) 0

Communities that act locally to limit their fish catches will reap the rewards of their action, as will their neighbors. That's the conclusion of a study reported on March 28 in the Cell Press journal Current Bi ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 28, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 0

Tropical rainforests are known for their high biodiversity of countless species, many of them unknown and not named by scientists yet. A large proportion of this undiscovered life on earth is formed by insects, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 27, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Climate change will bring both big opportunities and threats to the fish-dependent nations of the Pacific, international scientists say.

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 25, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Parasitoid wasps of the family Braconidae are known for their deadly reproductive habits. Most of the representatives of this group have their eggs developing in other insects and their larvae, eventually k ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 19, 2013 not rated yet 0

System 96P has been moving through the Coral Sea near northeastern Australia over the last couple of days, and today, March 14, NASA's Aqua satellite captured the storm as it matured into Tropical Storm Tim.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 14, 2013 not rated yet 0

Poisonous frogs, long-necked turtles, bears and chimpanzees may not be everyone's idea of an animal companion, but experts warn that demand for exotic pets is pushing some species closer to extinction.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 13, 2013 not rated yet 0

Of the 7,000 languages spoken on the planet, Tembé is at the small end with just 150 speakers left. In a few days, I will head into the Brazilian Amazon to record Tembé – via specially-designed technology ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Mar 12, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

A livestock feed supplement contaminated with human faeces is being blamed for an outbreak of parasite infection in a cattle feedlot in northwest NSW.

Biology - Other

Mar 07, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Many parks and protected areas around the world are being assailed by poachers and encroachers, but a new study suggests scientific research in the parks helps to reduce such threats.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 04, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

When Jim Thomas and his global team of researchers returned to the Madang Lagoon in Papua New Guinea, they discovered a treasure trove of new species unknown to science.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 28, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0