Demand for farmland may strip the Greater Mekong region of a third of its remaining forest cover over the next two decades without swift government action, a leading conservation group warned Thursday.

Biology - Ecology

May 02, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 0

A project supported by the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) is helping smallholder shrimp farmers in Sri Lanka adapt their industry's best management practices to local needs. This ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 21, 2013 not rated yet 0

Ralph Brown runs a 75-foot trawler, Little Joe, out of Brookings, Oregon. He fishes for pink shrimp, Dungeness crab, and groundfish, moving between the Oregon and Alaskan coastlines at different times of ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 07, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 0

Scientists are investigating how shell waste from crustaceans could be turned into polymer precursors as a substitute to petroleum-derived solutions.

Chemistry - Materials Science

Feb 07, 2013 not rated yet 1

Scientists have finally figured out how to determine the age of a lobster.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 30, 2012 not rated yet 0

Mantis shrimps pack a powerful punch, whether they smash or spear their victims. According to Maya deVries and Sheila Patek from University of California, Berkeley, smasher mantis shrimps power their claws' ballistic blows ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 22, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

Experts are urging policy makers to preserve mangroves and their essential services to nature and humanity alike, saying their replacement with shrimp farms and other forms of development is a bad economic ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 14, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Professor Jeff Shields and colleagues at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have succeeded in their 15-year effort to unravel the life history of Hematodinium, a single-celled parasite that afflicts blue c ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Oct 04, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

Parasitic dinoflagellates of the genus Hematodinium are a big problem for crab, prawn and shrimp fisheries across the world. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Aquatic Biosystem ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 06, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

Ballan wrasse are picky eaters when young. As adults, they eat sea lice off the skin of salmon – which makes them valuable to fish farmers. But as juveniles, wrasse want to be served shrimp.

Biology - Ecology

Aug 27, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) -- Military body armor and vehicle and aircraft frames could be transformed by incorporating the unique structure of the club-like arm of a crustacean that looks like an armored caterpillar, according ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Jun 07, 2012 4.6 / 5 (17) 9 |

(Phys.org) -- How can blue whales, the largest animals on the planet, survive by feeding on krill, shrimp-like creatures that are the size of a penny? According to UCLA life scientists, it's all a matter of ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 31, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 1 |

(AP) -- A big increase in reports of Asian tiger shrimp along the U.S. Southeast coast and in the Gulf of Mexico has federal biologists worried the species is encroaching on native species' territory.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 27, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 0

Scientists have shed new light on the evolution of deep-sea creatures by looking at the genes of one shrimp-like species, rather than their physical characteristics.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 27, 2012 4.6 / 5 (5) 1 |

Since the explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, scientists have been working to understand the impact that this disaster has had on the environment. For ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 20, 2012 4.2 / 5 (13) 2 |