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Volunteers help salamanders avoid roadway massacre

(AP) -- The black salamander with yellow spots sat on the roadside in the dark, ready to make a go of it.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Native bees often better pollinators than honey bee

In 2007, the world was introduced to a plague so disturbing it seemed almost biblical. Out of the blue, honey bees were dropping dead or worse, vanishing into the air by the millions. In the four years since, colony ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

How plants sense touch, gravity and other physical forces

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the bottom of plants' ability to sense touch, gravity or a nearby trellis are mechanosensitive channels, pores through the cells' plasma membrane that are opened and closed by the deformation ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Firewood movement leading cause of oak infestation in San Diego County

A catastrophic infestation of the goldspotted oak borer, which has killed more than 80,000 oak trees in San Diego County in the last decade, might be contained by controlling the movement of oak firewood from that region, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

History's normal rate of species disappearance is accelerating, scientists say

Biologist E.O. Wilson once pondered whether many of our fellow living things were doomed once evolution gave rise to an intelligent, technological creature that also happened to be a rapacious carnivore, fiercely territorial ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 31, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (16) | comments 11

Algae that live inside the cells of salamanders are the first known vertebrate endosymbionts

A species of algae long known to associate with spotted salamanders has been discovered to live inside the cells of developing embryos, say scientists from the U.S. and Canada, who report their findings in ...

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created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

What songbirds can teach us about the brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Sarah Woolley does research on males who mate for life and help out around the home. If you asked where these creatures can be found, she might direct your attention outdoors.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Japan looks to ancient wisdom to save biodiversity

Four decades ago the oriental white stork became extinct in Japan, the victim of rapid industrialisation and modern farm practices and heavy pesticide use that destroyed its habitat.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In midst of river cleanup, supporters are divided

(AP) -- Once a dumping ground for chemicals, a stretch of the Housatonic River that winds near this Berkshires hamlet is being scoured in a lengthy, expensive cleanup. Now, dredging other parts of the riverbed ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Arctic climate may be more sensitive to warming than thought, says new study

A new study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that current levels of Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 29, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (27) | comments 47 | with audio podcast

Invasive tallowtree spreading rapidly across Gulf coast

A study by a USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station scientist shows the numbers of nonnative Chinese tallowtree in Louisiana, Mississippi and east Texas grew by about 370 percent over a 16-year period. The spread of ...

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created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3


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