25/09/2015

Researchers identify new butterfly species to Hawaiian Islands

UHM Professor Daniel Rubinoff and researcher William Haines of the Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, have conclusively identified a newcomer to ...

Why Volkswagen share price slump goes beyond market logic

It has been an extraordinary week for Volkswagen managers and investors alike as markets issued their punishment for the company's admission of emissions test cheating. Standard financial economics theory states that trading ...

Scientists devise new platform to view metabolism

Metabolism is essential for the maintenance of life, in organisms ranging from yeast to humans. To deepen understanding of metabolism and its role in diseases such as type 2 diabetes, Yale researchers have developed a new ...

Satellite data helps migrating birds survive

This fall, birds migrating south from the Arctic will find 7,000 acres of new, temporary wetland habitat for their stopovers in California. The wetlands – rice fields shallowly flooded for a couple weeks after the harvest ...

Indonesia pledges 29 percent emissions cut by 2030

Indonesia has pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 29 percent by 2030 through stepping up protection of forests and boosting the renewable energy sector, but observers criticised the plan as lacking in detail.

A quarter of fish sold at markets contain man-made debris

Roughly a quarter of the fish sampled from fish markets in California and Indonesia contained man-made debris—plastic or fibrous material—in their guts, according to a study from the University of California, Davis, and ...

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