A species of truffle that is considered to be rare has been found for the first time in Finland. Previously it has been thought to exist only in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The truffle ...

Biology - Ecology

May 16, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Scientists have proposed a practical way to tackle the urgent need to restore huge areas of badly-degraded forest and grassland worldwide, based on Australian environmental experience.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 22, 2013 4.3 / 5 (6) 0

(Phys.org) —Twenty researchers—more than half of them Simon Fraser University graduates and/or faculty—could become eastern Canada's knights in shining white lab coats. A paper detailing their newly created sequencing ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 05, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

For the first time, scientists measured the chemical diffusivity and viscosity of atmospheric organic particles, thanks to a new approach from scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University ...

Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry

Mar 28, 2013 not rated yet 0

The sequencing and assembly of the genome of the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae, is published online this week in Genome Biology. The species is native to North America, where it is current ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 26, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Billions of trees killed in the wake of mountain pine beetle infestations, ranging from Mexico to Alaska, have not resulted in a large spike in carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, contrary ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 25, 2013 4 / 5 (5) 23 |

Thirteen years after wolves returned to an east German village, its residents have not only overcome age-old fears to live peacefully alongside the predator but even come to enjoy the benefits of its presence.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 01, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Plastic bags are a bane of nature. And not just bags – just about all plastics, really. Most are made out of petroleum, and a piece of plastic, if it misses the recycling bin and ends up in a landfill, ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Feb 21, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 1

(Phys.org)—Antarctica's recent summer season was a success for the Penn State researchers who camped out on the ice for nearly two months. Their efforts are part of a National Science Foundation-funded ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 20, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Males and females differ in a lot of traits (besides the obvious ones) and some evolutionary psychologists have proposed hypotheses to explain why. Some argue, for example, that males' slight, but significant, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 19, 2013 4 / 5 (9) 9 |

(Phys.org)—Creeping climate change in the Southwest appears to be having a negative effect on pinyon pine reproduction, a finding with implications for wildlife species sharing the same woodland ecosystems, ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 12, 2013 not rated yet 0

Population explosions of pine beetles, which have been decimating North American forests in recent decades, may be prevented by boosting competitor and predator beetle populations, a Dartmouth study suggests.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 25, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

A research team involving several scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder has found an unexpected silver lining in the devastating pine beetle outbreaks ravaging the West: Such events do not harm water quality ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 14, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

Trees and the insects that eat them wage constant war. Insects burrow and munch; trees deploy lethal and disruptive defenses in the form of chemicals.

Biology - Ecology

Dec 31, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 3 |

A trio of very large-scale, National Science Foundation-funded Antarctic science projects—investigating scientifically significant subjects as varied as life in extreme ecosystems, the fate of one of the ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Dec 20, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0