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Intensive Land Management Leaves Europe Without Carbon Sinks
A new calculation of
Europe's greenhouse gas
balance shows that emissions
of methane and nitrous oxide
tip the balance and
... > full story
Penguins and Sea Lions Help Produce New Atlas
Recording hundreds of
thousands of individual
uplinks from satellite
transmitters fitted on
penguins, albatrosses, sea
lions, and other marine
animals, conservation
... > full story
Fish Food Fight: Fish Don't Eat Trees After All, Says New Study
Recent theories suggesting
that half of fishes' food
comes from from land-based
ecosystems may not hold
water. Experiments show that
algae, not land-based
... > full story
California's Ancient Kelp Forest
The kelp forests off
southern California are
considered to be some of the
most diverse and productive
ecosystems on the planet,
yet a new study indicates
that today's kelp beds are
... > full story
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Sponges Recycle Carbon to Give Life to Coral Reefs
November 26, 2009 — Coral reefs live in some of the most nutrient deficient waters on the planet, so how do they survive? Marine biologists have discovered that certain sponges could be the key to reef survival. They ... > full story -
New Chameleon Species Discovered in East Africa
November 24, 2009 — A new species of chameleon has been discovered in a threatened forest in Tanzania. Researchers first spotted the animal while surveying monkeys in the Magombera Forest when they disturbed a twig ... > full story -
Global Study of Salmon Shows: 'Sustainable' Food Isn't So Sustainable
November 24, 2009 — Popular thinking about how to improve food systems often misses the point, according to the results of a three-year global study of salmon production systems. Rather than pushing for organic or ... > full story -
Deep-Sea World Beyond Sunlight: Explorers Census 17,650 Ocean Species on Edge of Black Abyss
November 23, 2009 — Scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight -- creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world ... > full story -
DNA 'Barcode' for Tropical Trees
November 23, 2009 — In foods, soil samples or customs checks, plant fragments sometimes need to be quickly identified. The use of DNA "barcodes" to itemize plant biodiversity was proposed during the 1992 Rio de Janeiro ... > full story -
Frog Legs Trade May Facilitate Spread of Pathogens
November 20, 2009 — Most countries throughout the world participate in the $40-million-per-year culinary trade of frog legs in some way, with 75 percent of frog legs consumed in France, Belgium and the United ... > full story -
After Mastodons and Mammoths, a Transformed Landscape
November 20, 2009 — Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths and ... > full story -
New Climate Treaty Could Put Species at Risk, Scientists Argue
November 16, 2009 — Plans to be discussed at the forthcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen to cut deforestation in developing countries could save some species from extinction but inadvertently increase the risk ... > full story -
Potential Ecological Costs and Co-Benefits of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation)
November 16, 2009 — A new paper examines the potential of a REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) mechanism to provoke ecological damage and/or promote ecological cobenefits. Such analysis ... > full story -
Behavior Modification Could Ease Concerns About Nanoparticles
November 13, 2009 — In an advance that could help ease health and environmental concerns about the emerging nanotechnology industry, scientists are reporting development of technology for changing the behavior of ... > full story
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