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Ants take on Goliath role in protecting trees in the savanna from elephants

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:08 am

Columns of angered ants will crawl up into elephant trunks to repel the ravenous beasts from devouring tree cover throughout drought-plagued East African savannas, playing a potentially important role in regulating carbon sequestration in these ecosystems

Article Date: Sep 04 @ 11:08 am | Read Full Article

Share and share alike?

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:05 am

"the majority of consumers plan to spend the same or more money on green products in the coming year, with more than 70 per cent of consumers in China, India and Brazil saying they will spend more." In addition, the report stated that "the majority of consumers – over 60 per cent – in all countries want to buy from environmentally responsible companies."

Article Date: Sep 04 @ 11:05 am | Read Full Article

What next for the floundering war on plastic bags?

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:41 am

As new figures today reveal, supermarkets have again failed to hit a target for cutting plastic bag use - Jessica Shankleman asks if it's time for the government to legislate

Article Date: Sep 04 @ 10:41 am | Read Full Article

Mosquitoes: Genetic structure of first animal to show evolutionary response to climate change determined

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:40 am

"Although this small mosquito has become the poster child for genetic response to climate change," says William Bradshaw, one of the paper's co-authors, "its evolution during post-glacial invasion of North America has been a question."

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Trojan Horse attack on native lupine: Tiny mice advance under of invasive beachgrass to feast on seeds of endangered plant

Posted on Aug 16 @ 02:38 am

European beachgrass provides cover that allows a timid deer mouse to get close enough to the lupine to snip off stalks of lupine fruits without being nabbed by overflying birds.

Article Date: Aug 16 @ 02:38 am | Read Full Article

Mushrooms made into green packing material

Posted on Aug 16 @ 02:18 am

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), two former Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute undergraduates, Gavin McIntyre and Eben Bayer, came up with the idea to make a composite of mushroom roots that could be used as a packing foam substitute.

Article Date: Aug 16 @ 02:18 am | Read Full Article

Deep, open ocean is vastly under-explored, study finds

Posted on Aug 03 @ 12:04 am

This area is home to uncounted animals which never experience a hard surface, including megamouth sharks, giant squid, and a myriad of smaller species of gelatinous animals and other planktonic organisms.

Article Date: Aug 03 @ 12:04 am | Read Full Article

Oxygen fuels the fires of time

Posted on Aug 03 @ 12:00 am

"The mystery to us is why oxygen levels appear to have more or less stabilized about 50 million years ago."

Article Date: Aug 03 @ 12:00 am | Read Full Article

Global warming pushes 2010 temperatures to record highs

Posted on Aug 02 @ 11:49 pm

"That's a very remarkable result – [the fact] that all those data sets agree, " he added. "It's the clearest evidence in one place from a range of different indices."

Article Date: Aug 02 @ 11:49 pm | Read Full Article

Some trees 'farm' bacteria to help supply nutrients

Posted on Aug 02 @ 11:47 pm

These microbes are exceptionally efficient at turning inorganic minerals into nutrients that the trees can use.

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Palm oil group still destroying Indonesian forest, says Greenpeace

Posted on Jul 29 @ 04:32 pm

The non-governmental organisation (NGO) has published new photographic evidence, aerial monitoring and field analysis which seems to show that the Sinar Mas group is continuing to break its own environmental commitments on protecting forests and peat land.

Article Date: Jul 29 @ 04:32 pm | Read Full Article

Fungi's role in the cycle of life discovered

Posted on Jul 16 @ 02:12 am

Almost all plants form symbiosis with fungi in their roots, know as mycorrhizas.

Article Date: Jul 16 @ 02:12 am | Read Full Article

Google Earth zooms in on dangerous climate change

Posted on Jul 15 @ 01:06 am

The map has been developed using peer-reviewed science from the Met Office Hadley Centre and other leading impact scientists, and is based on Google Earth technology to illustrate what would happen should the global average temperature rise by 4°C above the pre-industrial climate average.

Article Date: Jul 15 @ 01:06 am | Read Full Article

New research on rapidly-disappearing ancient plant offers hope for species recovery

Posted on Jul 13 @ 12:25 pm

Cycads, "living fossil" descendents of the first plants that colonized land and reproduced with seeds, are rapidly going extinct because of invasive pests and habitat loss, especially those species endemic to islands.

Article Date: Jul 13 @ 12:25 pm | Read Full Article

Plant 'breathing' mechanism discovered

Posted on Jul 12 @ 10:09 pm

...has now overturned the conventional belief about how these important structures called stomata regulate water vapor loss from the leaf-a process called transpiration. They found that radiation is the driving force of physical processes deep within the leaf.

Article Date: Jul 12 @ 10:09 pm | Read Full Article

'Magical thinking' about islands an illusion? Biologist refutes conventional thinking on evolution

Posted on Jul 09 @ 02:29 am

"There is a tendency to believe that big animals become very small on islands, and small animals become very big, due to limited resources or lack of competition. I've shown that this is just not true, at least not as a general rule. Evolution operates on islands no differently than anywhere else."

Article Date: Jul 09 @ 02:29 am | Read Full Article

Abandoned oil wells make Gulf of Mexico 'environmental minefield'

Posted on Jul 09 @ 02:13 am

There are more than 27,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf of Mexico, according to AP, of which 600 belonged to BP.

Article Date: Jul 09 @ 02:13 am | Read Full Article

Thousands of undiscovered plant species worldwide face extinction, study reveals

Posted on Jul 09 @ 02:01 am

Faced with threats such as habitat loss and climate change, thousands of rare flowering plant species worldwide may become extinct before scientists can even discover them...

Article Date: Jul 09 @ 02:01 am | Read Full Article

Lone whales shout to overcome noise

Posted on Jul 07 @ 12:23 am

"The ability to change vocalizations to compensate for environmental noise is critical for successful communication in an increasingly noisy ocean."

Article Date: Jul 07 @ 12:23 am | Read Full Article

Vindicated scientists warn against rising climate risks

Posted on Jul 06 @ 02:14 pm

However, it also confirmed two well-documented mistakes in the form of the prediction that Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 and the claim that more than half the Netherlands is below sea level.

Article Date: Jul 06 @ 02:14 pm | Read Full Article

For female baboons, too, it's good to have friends

Posted on Jul 06 @ 01:37 am

Female baboons that maintain closer ties with other members of their troop live substantially longer than do those whose social bonds are less stable...

Article Date: Jul 06 @ 01:37 am | Read Full Article

International law failing to protect coral reefs and tropical fish, experts argue

Posted on Jul 02 @ 12:47 am

International law has failed to protect coral reefs and tropical fish from being decimated by a growing collectors market, but U.S. reforms can lead the way towards making the trade more responsible, ecologically sustainable and humane.

Article Date: Jul 02 @ 12:47 am | Read Full Article

The Coming Gulf Coast Firestorm: How the BP oil catastrophe could destroy a major U.S. city

Posted on Jul 02 @ 12:39 am

All the dead trees killed by the oil turn into kindling. The sun evaporates off the rain water, leaving behind fuel. A few days of sun baking and you have a city doused in fuel, ready to burst into flames. It's every fireman's worst nightmare. The whole city is essentially turned into a giant match.

Article Date: Jul 02 @ 12:39 am | Read Full Article

BP is burning rare sea turtles alive, blocking efforts to save them

Posted on Jun 26 @ 01:06 am

But what people may not know is that BP's efforts to control the oil by burning it are actually burning alive a certain rare and endangered species of sea turtle.

Article Date: Jun 26 @ 01:06 am | Read Full Article

Pleasing to the eye: Even brooding female birds are sensitive to visual stimulation

Posted on Jun 24 @ 08:41 pm

Females that observed highly displaying male birds in the experiment were more fertile and had a greater breeding success due to an increased allocation of testosterone into their eggs, leading to an increase in the growth rate in chicks.

Article Date: Jun 24 @ 08:41 pm | Read Full Article

Source of essential nutrients for mid-ocean algae discovered

Posted on Jun 23 @ 11:25 pm

For almost three decades, oceanographers have been puzzled by the ability of microscopic algae to grow in mid-ocean areas where there is very little nitrate, an essential algal nutrient.

Article Date: Jun 23 @ 11:25 pm | Read Full Article

Humans vs. the environment - A thought experiment

Posted on Jun 23 @ 01:57 am

A human child born in America today, for example, will consume 45,000 pounds of metal in their lifetime (through the products they purchase). That's 45,000 pounds of metal that must be mined, processed, transported and manufactured into consumable products...

Article Date: Jun 23 @ 01:57 am | Read Full Article

Ocean changes may have dire impact on people

Posted on Jun 20 @ 02:01 pm

He said that the Earth's ocean, which produces half of the oxygen we breathe and absorbs 30% of human-generated CO2, is equivalent to its heart and lungs... "It's as if the Earth has been smoking two packs of cigarettes a day!"

Article Date: Jun 20 @ 02:01 pm | Read Full Article

Corporate atrocities against nature may ultimately destroy human civilization

Posted on Jun 20 @ 01:55 pm

The world already has over two hundred "dead zones" where fish can't live because the ocean water has no more oxygen left thanks to the runoff effects of man-made chemicals.

Article Date: Jun 20 @ 01:55 pm | Read Full Article

Signal like you mean it: Orangutan gestures carry specific intentional meanings, study finds

Posted on Jun 20 @ 01:53 pm

Great ape gestures have intentional meaning and are made with the expectation of specific behavioral responses

Article Date: Jun 20 @ 01:53 pm | Read Full Article

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