A multi-national research team of researchers in Bio4Energy has been able to demonstrate an important step in wood formation: that a part of plants only forms after the cells that make them up die. Accordi ...

Biology - Biotechnology

May 14, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —One of the world's most mysterious insects is about to invade the skies over wooded areas in eastern Pennsylvania and other states, but an expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences ...

Biology - Ecology

May 09, 2013 not rated yet 0

Amphibian populations living close to agricultural fields have become more resistant to a common insecticide and are actually resistant to multiple common insecticides, according to two recent studies conducted at the University ...

Biology - Ecology

May 01, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from Grenoble University in France has found that under experimental conditions, roughly half of the noise created by drying wood is due to cavitation. The team made this ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 17, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 1 |

Canada has eradicated the destructive Asian Long-Horned Beetle first detected in the Toronto area a decade ago after hitching a ride across the Pacific in wood packaging materials.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 05, 2013 4.8 / 5 (5) 3

Rising temperatures will lead to a massive "greening" of the Arctic by mid-century, as a result of marked increases in plant cover, according to research supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 31, 2013 3.6 / 5 (25) 131 |

Canada has sent 30 bison to Russia for reintroduction in the rugged and mostly forested Siberian province of Sakha, 5,000 years after they died out in the area, its parks administration said Thursday.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 28, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 3

Kansas State University civil engineers are developing the right mix to reduce concrete's carbon footprint and make it stronger. Their innovative ingredient: biofuel byproducts.

Technology - Engineering

Mar 14, 2013 4.4 / 5 (5) 0 |

(AP)—The pursuit of hackers who audaciously stole and published credit reports for Michelle Obama, the attorney general, FBI director and other U.S. politicians and celebrities crisscrossed continents and ...

Technology - Internet

Mar 13, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 0

Juvenile wood frogs emigrating from their birthplaces in vernal pools into the terrestrial ecosystem may transfer mercury they accumulated during larval development into the food web, according to a team ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 12, 2013 not rated yet 0

For B.C. communities considering investing in a bioenergy heating system, it can be expensive and time-consuming to weigh the pros and cons.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Feb 07, 2013 not rated yet 0

Trees do not grow in the deep sea, nevertheless sunken pieces of wood can develop into oases for deep-sea life - at least temporarily until the wood is fully degraded. A team of Max Planck researchers from ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 22, 2013 4.7 / 5 (7) 0 |

(Phys.org)—New research from North Carolina State University provides molecular-level insights into how cellulose – the most common organic compound on Earth and the main structural component of plant ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Dec 14, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Many people see Thanksgiving leftovers as too much of a good thing and toss them out. Vinnie Bevivino wants those uneaten castoffs and more - he sees a chance to make some green with them while going green.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Nov 26, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

A new strain of avian pox is taking its toll on garden birds in Britain, reports new research published this week in PLOS ONE.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 21, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0