News tagged with study environment

Microscope looks into cells of living fish

Microscopes provide valuable insights in the structure and dynamics of cells, in particular when the latter remain in their natural environment. However, this is very difficult especially for higher organisms. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

DNA traces cattle back to a small herd domesticated around 10,500 years ago

All cattle are descended from as few as 80 animals that were domesticated from wild ox in the Near East some 10,500 years ago, according to a new genetic study.

Biology / Evolution

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Online educational empowerment

Online learning communities flourish best if individual learners have self-governance. That is the conclusion of a US study published in the International Journal of Web Based Communities.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Stay or go? Some towns are eyeing retreat from sea

(AP) — Years of ferocious storms have threatened to gnaw away the western tip of a popular beachfront park a two hours drive north of Los Angeles. Instead of building a 500-foot (150 meter)-long wooden defense next to ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 03, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

From yeast, researchers learn how populations collapse

In the early 1990s, overfishing led to the collapse of one of the most bountiful cod fisheries in the world, off the coast of Newfoundland. Twenty years later, the cod population still has not recovered, dramatically ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 21 | with audio podcast

Study reveals pesticide approval processes don't protect river biodiversity

(Phys.org) -- The results of an international study, using data from globally available field research, indicate that current pesticide approval procedures do not adequately protect the environment.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Winds of change for pollution sensing

(Phys.org) -- The Great Smog of London is often upheld as a time when pollution reached appalling levels: over a four-day period in December 1952, the capital came to a standstill, cars were abandoned, airports ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Study highlights climate food risk hotspots

The poorest societies may be more able to adapt to the threat climate change poses to food supplies than their slightly richer peers, a new study suggests.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

High-tech tools may help small grains breeders 'see' valuable plant traits faster

Two tools from industry are being applied to the small grains breeding program by a Texas AgriLife Research team to help identify valuable drought-resistance traits in wheat faster and less intrusively than ...

Biology / Other

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Venus, a planetary portrait of inner beauty

(Phys.org) -- A Venus transit across the face of the sun is a relatively rare event -- occurring in pairs with more than a century separating each pair. There have been all of 53 transits of Venus across the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A genetic alternative to fertilizer

Several studies have shown that a lack of nitrogen in soils adversely affects crop yields. The modern use of nitrogen fertilizers has improved yields to meet expanding global food demand, but in some cases ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New understanding of terrestrial formation has significant and far reaching future implications

The current theory of continental drift provides a good model for understanding terrestrial processes through history. However, while plate tectonics is able to successfully shed light on processes up to 3 billion years ago, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

France to ban Swiss pesticide as bee threat

The French government is to ban a pesticide made by Swiss giant Syngenta used in rapeseed cultivation that has been found to shorten bees' lifespan, Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll said Friday.

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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