By day, insects provide the white noise of the South, but the night belongs to the amphibians. In a typical year, the Southern air hangs heavy from the humidity and the sounds of wildlife.

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 17, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(Phys.org) —Seagrass along Moreton Bay will drastically decline as sea levels rise, a University of Queensland study has found. The study, published in international journal Global Change Biology this week, reveals that u ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 15, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

A satellite that will map the world's forests has been chosen for the seventh mission in Europe's Earth Explorer project, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Tuesday.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

May 07, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Songbird populations can handle far more disrupting climate change than expected. Density-dependent processes are buying them time for their battle. But without (slow) evolutionary rescue it will not save ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 25, 2013 3.7 / 5 (3) 1 |

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

Our most pressing environmental challenge is not how many people the planet can support, but rather how many cellphone-toting, satellite-TV-watching, gas-guzzler driving members of the middle class it can ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Apr 23, 2013 2.7 / 5 (7) 0

An international research team in including Christian Schlötterer and Alistair McGregor of the Vetmeduni Vienna has discovered a completely new mechanism by which evolution can change the appearance of an ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 19, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 3

Innovative policies and new technologies that reduce water waste are helping countries across the Middle East and North Africa deal with chronic water shortages.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 11, 2013 2.5 / 5 (2) 0

Many factors—including climate change, overfishing or loss of food supply—can push a wild animal population to the brink of collapse. Ecologists have long sought ways to measure the risk of such a collapse, ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 10, 2013 3.8 / 5 (6) 0 |

The vast region of Africa known as the Sahel will descend into large-scale drought, famine, war and terrorist control if immediate, coordinated steps are not taken to avert the perfect storm of climate change ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 10, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 3

A University of Leeds-led study, published in the journal Ecology Letters, overturns the common assumption that evolution only occurs gradually over hundreds or thousands of years.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 09, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Which is more important, pandas or pinot? Researchers say that is a question conservationists and wine-growers will have to answer in the coming years as climate change sparks a hunt for cooler places to ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 08, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

California sagebrush in the southern part of the state will adjust better to climate change than sagebrush populations in the north, according to UC Irvine researchers in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 01, 2013 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

(Phys.org) —New research from North Carolina State University finds that higher temperatures found in urban environments are a key contributor to higher populations of insect pests called scale insects ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 01, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

More than half of Indonesia's population live in areas at risk of landslides, an official said Thursday, with traditional farming methods blamed for the widespread vulnerability.

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 28, 2013 not rated yet 0