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Scientists Discover Life Where it Was Not Known Before, Under the Antarctic and in Salt Lakes

At a 'Frontiers of Science' meeting, scientists described apparently productive ecosystems in two places where life was not known before, under the Antarctic ice sheet, and above concentrated salt lakes beneath the Mediterranean

17 Nov 2008

Urban Biodiversity Promoted by Small Patches of Habitat

Sets of small and seemingly insignificant habitat patches that are within reach for mobile species may under certain circumstances, as a group, provide an acceptable alternative to larger and contiguous habitats

16 Nov 2008

Wetland Ecosystems Being Conserved With the Help of Satellite Observations

ESA carried out the GlobWetland project from 2003 to 2008 in order to demonstrate how employing satellite data can support the inventorying, monitoring and assessing of wetland ecosystems

16 Nov 2008

Researchers Link Autism With Rain

The American Medical Association journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has published a new study by researchers at Cornell University indicating evidence of an environmental trigger for autism among genetically vulnerable children

10 Nov 2008

Scientific Community Asked to Resolve Debate on Net Energy

Net energy is a metric by which some scientists attempt to assess the sustainability and ability of alternative fuels to displace fossil fuel but recent debate in Biofpr shows that scientists are undecided on its merits as a tool

9 Nov 2008

Study Shows Climate Change Drives Ecological Shifts

While Earth has experienced numerous changes in climate over the past 65 million years, recent decades have experienced the most significant climate change since the beginning of human civilized societies about 5,000 years ago

9 Nov 2008

Climate Change Causing Long Lasting and Profound Changes to Fish

Fishermen believe that the fish caught today are no longer the same as before. New species living in warm or Southern waters, such as spirlin and the common bitterling, are gradually replacing the traditionally fished species

9 Nov 2008

Wine Industry Set to Embrace Sustainability

There is a unique opportunity in South Africa this week for the wine industry to engage with the conservation community and put sustainability on the global wine agenda

5 Nov 2008

Spruce Forest Mushrooms Slowing Climate Change in Northern Forests

The fight against climate warming has an unexpected ally in mushrooms growing in dry spruce forests covering Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and other northern regions, a new University of California, Irvine study finds

3 Nov 2008

Researcher Finds Boom and Bust Cycles in Ecology, Plants and Animal Populations

The natural world behaves a lot like the stock market, with periods of relative stability interspersed with dramatic swings in population size and competition between individuals and species

3 Nov 2008