News tagged with population numbers

Warmer summers could shrink trout populations

(PhysOrg.com) -- The New York state fish could be jeopardy due to climate change, warn Cornell scientists.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Paternity testing helps fill in family tree for Puget Sound's killer whales

In a study published online this month in the Journal of Heredity, NOAA researchers and others, using DNA testing to fill in a missing link in the lives of killer whales that seasonally visit Washington's Puget Sound, have d ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New algorithm provides new insights into evolutionary exodus out of Africa

Researchers have probed deeper into human evolution by developing an elegant new technique to analyse whole genomes from different populations. One key finding from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's study is that African ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New study reduces threat level for caribou in Alberta's oilsands country

(Edmonton) A University of Alberta researcher has co-written an extensive study of the caribou population in the Fort McMurray oilsands region that show the animals' survival isn't as threatened as was perceived in the past. ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China's online population rises to 477mn

The number of Internet users in China, already the world's largest online market, hit 477 million at the end of March, a senior government official was quoted by state media as saying Monday.

Technology / Internet

created May 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Big cats, wild pigs and short-eared dogs -- oh, my!

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released photos today from the first large-scale census of jaguars in the Amazon region of Ecuador—one of the most biologically rich regions on the planet.

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