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Volunteers help salamanders avoid roadway massacre (AP)

Volunteers help salamanders avoid roadway massacre

Biology / Ecology

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

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





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Disease threat may change how frogs mate

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dr Amber Teacher, studying a post-doctorate at Royal Holloway, University of London, has discovered evidence that a disease may be causing a behavioural change in frogs. The research, published in the August edition of Molecular Ec ...


Amphibian populations dropping in Edmonton's wetlands

Amphibian populations dropping in Edmonton's wetlands

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created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Man-made wetlands in Edmonton's new neighborhoods may look good, but do they adequately sustain life?


Common insecticide can decimate tadpole populations

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 2

The latest findings of a University of Pittsburgh-based project to determine the environmental impact of routine pesticide use suggests that malathion—the most popular insecticide in the United States—can decimate tadpole ...


Sustainable fertilizer: Urine and wood ash produce large harvest

Sustainable fertilizer: Urine and wood ash produce large harvest

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Results of the first study evaluating the use of human urine mixed with wood ash as a fertilizer for food crops has found that the combination can be substituted for costly synthetic fertilizers to produce ...


Killer fungus threatening amphibians

Killer fungus threatening amphibians

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Amphibians like frogs and toads have existed for 360 million years and survived when the dinosaurs didn't, but a new aquatic fungus is threatening to make many of them extinct, according to an article in the ...


Scientists discover ultrasonic communication among frogs

Scientists discover ultrasonic communication among frogs

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA scientists report for the first time on the only known frog species that can communicate using purely ultrasonic calls, whose frequencies are too high to be heard by humans. Known as ...


Weeds that reinvented weediness

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Flowering plants are all around us and are phenomenally successful—but how did they get to be so successful and where did they come from? This question bothered Darwin and others and a paper published in the September issue ...


Traffic noise could be ruining sex lives of frogs (AP)

Traffic noise could be ruining sex lives of frogs

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Traffic noise could be ruining the sex lives of urban frogs by drowning out the seductive croaks of amorous males, an Australian researcher said Friday.


Termites eavesdrop on competitors to survive

Termites eavesdrop on competitors to survive

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The drywood termite, Cryptotermes secundus, eavesdrops on its more aggressive subterranean competitor, Coptotermes acinaciformis, to avoid contact with it, according to scientists from CSIRO ...


Energy consumption makes Spanish forestry unsustainable

Energy consumption makes Spanish forestry unsustainable

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spain is one of the leading European countries, along with Sweden, in terms of wood production for paper paste, but this uses large amounts of energy. Spanish and Swedish scientists have compared the environmental ...



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