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Global Seed Banking Milestone Celebrated
October 15, 2009 — An international partnership of 54 countries led by the United Kingdom's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is celebrating a decade of work to set aside seeds for future generations from 10 percent of the ... > full story -
First Neotropical Rainforest Was Home Of The Titanoboa -- World's Biggest Snake
October 13, 2009 — Researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world's biggest snake, lived in this forest 58 ... > full story -
First Spider Known To Science That Feeds Mainly On Plant Food
October 13, 2009 — There are approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all of which have been thought to be strict predators that feed on insects or other animals. Now, scientists have found that a small ... > full story -
Orangutans Unique In Movement Through Tree Tops
October 13, 2009 — Scientists have found that orangutans move through the canopy of tropical forests in a completely different way to all other tree-dwelling ... > full story -
A Tree's Response To Environmental Changes: What Can We Expect Over The Next 100 Years?
October 13, 2009 — The many environmental issues facing our society are prevalent in the media lately. Our ecosystem is composed of a very delicate network of interactions among all species and the non-living ... > full story -
Banana Plants May Be Used In Production Of Plastic Products
October 9, 2009 — Researchers have developed a new technique for the use of banana plants in the production of plastic products. The project will develop new procedures to incorporate by-products from banana ... > full story -
If Only The Weeds Would Keep Their Genes To Themselves
October 9, 2009 — The ecological and economic impacts of gene flow between crops and their weedy relatives are significant. Weedy relatives may acquire beneficial genes from cultivated cousins, potentially increasing ... > full story -
Early Hominid First Walked On Two Legs In The Woods
October 8, 2009 — Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the ... > full story -
In Search Of Wildlife-friendly Biofuels: Are Native Prairie Plants the Answer?
October 8, 2009 — One of the unintended consequences of crop-based biofuels may be the loss of wildlife habitat, particularly the birds who call this country's grasslands ... > full story -
Growing Greener Greens: Research Could 'Biofortify' Cabbages And Their Relatives
October 7, 2009 — A pioneering project to make our green vegetables even better for us has been launched by scientists in the UK. The research will underpin future technological developments in agriculture that could ... > full story -
Amazing Maze Of Maize Evolution: Study On Maize Domestication May Help Improve Crop Yields
October 5, 2009 — Understanding the evolution and domestication of maize is important for many researchers. As one of the most important crops worldwide and one that appears very different from its wild relatives ... > full story -
Microbiology: Free-for-all On The Leaf Surface
October 5, 2009 — Scientists have examined the genes and proteins of bacteria that live on leaves to clarify which unicellular organisms are found on leaf surfaces and what they are doing ... > full story
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