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Study Shows How Insects, Parasites Detect CO2, Methane to Locate Bird Nests

Flying insects and parasites are often vectors for disease, but a mosquito needs to first find someone before they can bite them.

5 Aug 2020

Macrozoobenthos Play Key Role in Functionality of Freshwater Ecosystem

(DNA or eDNA), for example, river water or, as in the case of the study by the team from the University of Duisburg-Essen within the German Barcode of Life project: Vera Zizka, Dr Martina Weiss and Prof Florian Leese, from individuals in bulk samples.

3 Aug 2020

Monash Researcher Awarded $255,000 to Assess Impacts of Bushfire on Biodiversity

The recent bushfires that swept across South Eastern Australia were unprecedented in scale and intensity.

24 Jul 2020

New Agronomic Technique Minimizes Deforestation and Climate Change

Small farms in Zambia that use the latest hybrid seed for maize, along with improving health on neutral soils, help reduce deforestation and tackle climate change, Cornell University researchers report this month in Global Environmental Change.

24 Jul 2020

Researchers Characterize Ecology and Habitat of Endangered Whitespotted Eagle Rays

The whitespotted eagle ray, found in estuaries and lagoons throughout Florida, is listed as "near threatened" on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's "Red List of Threatened Species."

23 Jul 2020

Study Summarizes Information on Tiny Snails in Eastern Sector of the Arctic

Shell-bearing microgastropods are snails whose size is less than five millimetres. They represent one of the least studied groups of metazoan living organisms in the oceans.

20 Jul 2020

Research Shows Extensive Human Use of Antarctica in the Last 200 Years

Antarctica is considered one of the Earth's largest, most pristine remaining wildernesses. Yet since its formal discovery 200 years ago, the continent has seen accelerating and potentially impactful human activity.

17 Jul 2020

PMI Launches “Our World Is Not an Ashtray” Initiative and Aims to Halve Plastic Litter from Products by 2025

Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) today launched “Our World Is Not an Ashtray,” a new global initiative to raise awareness and drive a long-term change in behavior and attitudes around cigarette butt littering.

17 Jul 2020

Sydney Science Trail Virtual Expedition Embarks August 15

Prepare for a great adventure as the Sydney Science Trail gets ready for children across the country (5-15 years), and their adult friends and teachers, to join the mission to help planet Earth. For on...

16 Jul 2020

Renewable Energy Transition Makes Dollars And Sense

Making the transition to a renewable energy future will have environmental and long-term economic benefits and is possible in terms of energy return on energy invested, UNSW Sydney researchers have found.

16 Jul 2020