On a dry hillside near Madrid, a black mass has taken over: stacks of discarded tyres, piling up for years in an environmental nightmare for the small town nearby.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 12, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 5

Can you teach a wolf not to eat sheep? The idea is being floated in France, where the return of the wolf has got farmers and environmentalists at each other's throats.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 07, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—When University of Florida researcher Robert McCleery and a graduate student began looking at why an endangered marsh rabbit's habitat was disappearing in the Florida Keys, they fully expected the blame would ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 21, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0

A study by the University of Bristol's School of Veterinary Sciences has been used to launch an RSPCA campaign called ‘Hay Fever,’ to highlight the fact many owners do not know what food is best ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 26, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) -- With cameras set up in Sumatra looking for medium- and small-sized wild cats, such as leopards, a research group involving the University of Delaware's Kyle McCarthy, found images of something ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 24, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

The feeding habits of mammals haven't always been what they are today, particularly for omnivores, finds a new study.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 16, 2012 4.8 / 5 (5) 2 |

Experiments on animals have been the subject of criticism for decades, but there is no prospect of a move away from them any time soon. The number of tests involving laboratory animals has in fact gone up. ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Jan 03, 2012 4.6 / 5 (5) 0

Rhode Island’s native rabbit, the New England cottontail, is on the verge of being extirpated from the state after a survey of appropriate habitat and historical breeding sites by more than 100 University ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 15, 2011 not rated yet 0

The survival of many carnivore species, including the Iberian lynx and fox, is contingent on them getting their key prey: the rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). But a Spanish-Argentinean team of researchers has ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 07, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0

Like the Easter Bunny, the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit of Washington state may soon exist only in our imaginations. None have been seen in the wild since 2004. But a new breeding program is aiming to rebuild ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 20, 2011 5 / 5 (6) 3 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- On the small island of Minorca, a popular European tourist destination, researchers have unearthed an enormous fossil rabbit skeleton. A recent study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Pa ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 21, 2011 4.8 / 5 (6) 4 |

The November 2010 issue of Environmental Pollution details successful experiments at the University of Cincinnati wherein rabbit's food resulted in the abiotic (non-biological) transformation and absorption of fou ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 01, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0

A team of scientists from government, academia and private industry has developed a novel treatment that protects mice from infection with the bacterium that causes tularemia, a highly infectious disease of ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

May 27, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A suffragette poem, penned by a world-famous children’s author and kept privately at a University of Manchester Hall of Residence for over a century, has been made available online.

Other Sciences - Other

Oct 12, 2009 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

(AP) -- Rabbits are certainly known for their propensity to multiply, but one species of jackrabbit is having trouble keeping up. There are an estimated 150 white-sided jackrabbits left in the United States, and federal ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 22, 2009 4 / 5 (1) 0