International research has suggested that many coral species won't survive beyond the end of this century, but marine biologists at Victoria University are offering an alternative scenario.

Biology - Ecology

May 07, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

(Phys.org) —A new study has shed light on the diets and feeding habits of Ningaloo's stingrays, information which has never been documented before.

Biology - Ecology

May 06, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 0

Will we soon be forced to eat jellyfish? Since the beginning of the 2000s, these gelatinous creatures have invaded many of the world's seas, like the Japan Sea, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, etc. ...

Biology - Ecology

May 06, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

(Phys.org) —The Earth's atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) is about to rise to 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in five million years, a scientist at The University of Queensland warned today.

Space & Earth - Environment

May 03, 2013 4.7 / 5 (18) 66

Harsh Bais and Janine Sherrier of the University of Delaware's Department of Plant and Soil Sciences are studying whether a naturally occurring soil bacterium, referred to as UD1023 because it was first characterized ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 02, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

A new Philippine population of critically-endangered Irrawaddy dolphins was reported recently by WWF-Philippines.

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 02, 2013 not rated yet 0

Researchers at Lincoln Park Zoo and Northern Illinois University have discovered a new culprit contributing to amphibian decline and altered mammal distribution throughout the Midwest region – the invasive plant European ...

Biology - Ecology

May 01, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

Three years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, crude oil toxicity continues to sicken a sentinel Gulf Coast fish species, according to new findings from a research team that includes a University ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 01, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

(Phys.org) —That human land use destroys natural ecosystems is an oft-cited assumption in conservation, but ecologists have discovered that instead, traditional ranching techniques in the African savanna ...

Biology - Ecology

May 01, 2013 not rated yet 0

It's just about visible to the naked eye and has a name that makes you wonder if it's make-believe. Tinkerbella nana sounds like something from a fairytale, but it is a new genus and species of fairyfly, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 01, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Researchers from our Biodiversity Lab have identified specific areas around the world where conservation efforts could best be targeted to safeguard inland-breeding waterbirds.

Biology - Ecology

May 01, 2013 not rated yet 0

Parts of the UK are at greater risk of invasion by non-native aquatic species than previously thought, according to new research. The first to include human factors in models used to predict where invasive species will arrive ...

Biology - Ecology

May 01, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 1

Two-thirds of all forest inventory plots in the Northeast and Midwestern United States contain at least one non-native plant species, a new U.S. Forest Service study found. The study across two dozen states from North Dakota ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 30, 2013 not rated yet 0

Even bacteria have a kind of "immune system" they use to defend themselves against unwanted intruders – in their case, viruses. Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 30, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

North America isn't known as a hotspot for crop plant diversity, yet a new inventory has uncovered nearly 4,600 wild relatives of crop plants in the United States, including close relatives of globally important ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 29, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0