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While the cat's away: How removing an invasive species devastated a World Heritage island

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created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Removing an invasive species from sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, a World Heritage Site, has caused environmental devastation that will cost more than A$24 million to remedy, ecologists have revealed. Writing in the new issue ...





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Working to conserve endangered 'Playboy' bunnies

Working to conserve endangered 'Playboy' bunnies

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's legacy will live on with a new University of Central Florida study aimed at saving the endangered bunnies named after him.


Proposal to reintroduce Iberian lynx on abandoned agricultural land

Proposal to reintroduce Iberian lynx on abandoned agricultural land

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spanish scientists have developed a model to identify the agricultural areas with the greatest potential for restoring the habitat of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus), which is at risk of extinction. The st ...


Helsinki Urban/Nature Interactive Invites World-Wide Visitors Via Flickr

Helsinki Urban/Nature Interactive Invites World-Wide Visitors Via Flickr

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 14, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- CityWall is a large interactive touch display in central Helsinki Finland. The interactive 3D touch screen display portrays the ever changing landscape of Helsinki as nature and urban life ...


Animals on runways can cause serious problems at small airports

Animals on runways can cause serious problems at small airports

Biology / Ecology

created May 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a potentially deadly combination.


Feds review mountain-dwelling pika for threatened-species list

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pikas don't ask much. With brave squeaks, belted out from atop their rock piles, they defend their realm in the talus slopes way up here in the mountains, more than a mile in the sky, far from anyone, anywhere.


The past matters to plants

The past matters to plants

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's commonly known that plants interact with each other on an everyday basis: they shade each other out or take up nutrients from the soil before neighboring plants can get them. Now, researchers ...


Limestone leaf warbler: New bird species discovered

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A diminutive, colorful bird living in the rocky forests of Laos and Vietnam has been discovered by a team of scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, Lao PDR Department of Forestry, Swedish University ...


Abundance of a look-alike species clouds population status of a million dollar fish

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The prized white marlin, sought by anglers in million dollar prize tournaments and captured incidentally in commercial fisheries, is among the most overfished marine species under international management and the subject ...


Does Glutathione-S-transferase associate with gastrointestinal cancer in Korean population?

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The glutathione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1) and glutathione S-transferase T1 (GSTT1) null genotypes have been linked to increased risk of developing cancer. The results regarding the association between GSTM1 and GSTT1 null ...


Conservation of freshwater fish biodiversity: a challenge for the countries of the South

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created Mar 26, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Humans have regularly been introducing exotic species into natural environments in order to provide for their nutritional necessities or meet less indispensable purposes such as horticulture, fishing or hunting. However, ...



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