Search results for nature reserves:
New research shows a global trend in nature-based tourism
Jun 30, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
A new study out today found that many nations throughout the world, including the United Kingdom, are seeing an annual increase in visitors to their conservation areas.
Data point to some improvements in China's environment
Nov 02, 2009 |
3.5 / 5 (2) |
0
The rapid growth of China's forests over the past 20 years makes them the fastest growing forest resources in the world, according to an assessment published in the November issue of BioScience.
Sichuan earthquake caused significant damage to giant panda habitat
Jul 27, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
When the magnitude 8 Sichuan earthquake struck southern China in May 2008, it left more than 69,000 people dead and 4.3 million homeless. Now ecologists have added to these losses an assessment of the earthquake's impact ...
Nature reserves attract humans, but at a cost to biodiversity
Jul 03, 2008 |
4.4 / 5 (7) |
0
Rather than suppressing local communities in developing nations, nature reserves attract human settlement, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Scientists help uncover new oilfields
Jan 06, 2006 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
University of Liverpool scientists are working to understand the nature of oil and gas reservoirs within deeply buried submarine channels.
Key to 'curing' obesity may lie in worms that destroy their own fat
Biology /
Dec 08, 2008 |
4.4 / 5 (9) |
4
(PhysOrg.com) -- A previously unknown mutation discovered in a common roundworm holds the promise of new treatments for obesity in humans, McGill University researchers say. Their study was published Dec. ...
The brain's reserve cells can be activated after stroke
Feb 23, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (6) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have found a way of activating the neuronal reserves in the brains of mice by switching off the signal that inhibits the formation of new ...
Study: Wildlife need more complex travel plans
Biology /
Oct 20, 2008 |
4 / 5 (4) |
0
A new UC Davis study says that people trying to help nature by designing corridors for wildlife need to think more naturally.
Australian kangaroo cull prompts outrage
Oct 02, 2009 |
3.7 / 5 (6) |
3
The culling of some 140 kangaroos on one of Australia's most famous race car tracks prompted outrage Friday from environmentalists and animal rights activists.
When smell cells fail they call in stem cell reserves
Apr 29, 2007 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
Hopkins researchers have identified a backup supply of stem cells that can repair the most severe damage to the nerves responsible for our sense of smell. These reservists normally lie around and do nothing, but when neighboring ...
To catch a panda
Biology /
Dec 10, 2007 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Michigan State University’s panda habitat research team has spent years collecting mountains of data aimed at understanding and saving giant pandas. Now a graduate student is working to catch crucial data that’s black, white ...
To meet climate goal, only quarter of fossil fuels can be used: study
Apr 29, 2009 |
4.2 / 5 (53) |
17
Meeting a widely-supported goal to tackle global warming means that humanity will be able to burn less than a quarter of the proven reserves of fossil fuels by 2050, a study released on Wednesday said.
Rare Angolan antelope tracked by research team
Jul 27, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
A rare Angolan antelope feared to have been killed off during a 27-year civil war has been located, giving hope for the future preservation of the species, a government official said Monday.
Heating from carbon dioxide will increase five-fold over next millennia
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 29, 2009 |
2.6 / 5 (27) |
16
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that heating from carbon dioxide will increase five-fold over the next millennia.
Money woes threaten Romanian protected areas
Oct 02, 2009 |
3 / 5 (1) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dwindling resources and bureaucratic hurdles are threatening to destroy Romania’s protected area system - home to some of Europe’s largest remaining natural forests.
