Besides a recent multidisciplinary study published in Nature Climate Change journal reveals that global warming is also accelerating deforestation of the planet.
The nature and timing of precipitation will change research suggests with some studies showing that climate change will decrease soil moisture later in the growing season.
and precipitation patterns shift said John Shuey a co-author of the study and Director of Conservation Science for the Indiana Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
Dung beetles recount the nature of the pastthe biologists behind the new research findings synthesized decades of studies on fossil beetles focusing on beetles associated with the dung of large animals in the past or with woodlands and trees.
Large animals in high numbers were an integral part of nature in prehistoric times. The composition of the beetles in the fossil sites tells us that the proportion
To a large extent it supports the idea that the rewilding-based approach to nature management should be incorporated to a far greater degree in nature policy in Europe-especially in the case of national parks and other large natural areas.
#The nature of color: New formula to calculate hue improves accuracy of color analysisa stroll through the produce aisle in your local grocery store exhibits a plethora of vivid colors.
This is a crucial question for scientists studying the biological importance of color in nature but measuring color is much more challenging than measuring other characteristics like size or weight.
and why new colors evolve in nature. When her research was limited by faulty hue values from previous formulas she needed a new method to overcome this limitation.
The absence of archaeological sites and the inhospitable nature of open treeless landscape known as tundra steppe mean that archaeologists have not given much credence to the idea there was a population that lived on the Bering land bridge
A paper by Michigan State university panda habitat experts published in this week's Journal for Nature Conservation explores an oft-hidden yet significant conflict in conservation.
Vanessa Hull a doctoral student in MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS) has been living off and on for seven years in the Wolong Nature Reserve most recently tracking pandas she's equipped with GPS collars.
Jack Liu (left) and Jindong Zhang talk to a farmer in the Wolong Nature Reserve about the impact livestock can have on panda habitat.
An analysis published Feb 26 in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that the wastewater produced during the processing of palm oil is a significant source of heat-trapping methane in the atmosphere.
In 4-ethyloctanal we identified a novel chemical that had never been demonstrated in nature before.
and air quality they report in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The results may help to explain discrepancies between observations
The study is published Feb 27 in Nature. In many forested regions you can go and observe particles apparently form from thin air.
The research recently appeared in the journal Nature Communications A plant factory for moth pheromone production.
Nature has found a way to make multi-hyperuniformity he said. Now you can take the cue from
what nature has found to create a multi-hyperuniform pattern if you intend to. Evolutionarily speaking the researchers'results show that nature found a unique workaround to the problem of cramming all those cones into the compact avian eye Corbo said.
The ordered pattern of cells in most other animals'eyes are thought to be the optimal arrangement
Cellulose is found everywhere in nature in rich quantities for example in the stems of the corn plant.
and scientists are pioneering new methods to assess nature's recovery and guide human intervention.
The epicenter of China's devastating Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 was in the Wolong Nature Reserve a globally important valuable biodiversity hotspot and home to the beloved and endangered giant pandas.
UK study showsdiseases that are managed common in honeybee colonies are now widespread in the UK's wild bumblebees according to research published in Nature.
In a paper published February 19 2014 in the journal Nature Communications researchers from Rutgers University the Department of energy Joint Genome Institute and several other facilities detailed the complete genome
Their research which was published today in the journal Nature Communications demonstrates that Proconsul and its primate relative Dendropithecus inhabited a widespread dense multistoried closed canopy forest.
Why has chosen nature such radically different forms as the loose-limbed beauty of a flowering tree and the fearful symmetry of a tiger?
The study published in the journal Nature provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the evolutionary relationships of influenza virus across different host species over time.
and SLAC who led the research reported today in Nature Nanotechnology. Experiments showed our pomegranate-inspired anode operates at 97 percent capacity even after 1000 cycles of charging
The findings were published on February 16 in the journal Nature. The researchers found that plant diversity in natural ecosystems creates more stable ecosystems over time because of less synchronized growth of plants.
Fifty years ago we were making the first measurements of the solar wind and understanding the nature of
In a recent issue of Nature the researchers reported on a particular gene sequence that allows Bacteroidetes to carry out this function.
This was mainly due to the online nature of the livestock products survey versus the mailed method of the general food products survey said Marcus Brix another K-State graduate student who worked on the study.
Likewise their wary nature suggests that climbing leads to improved site surveillance of potential threats and prey.
The results which appear today in BMC Genomics provide new insight into the debate between nature and nurture according to Grozinger.
Everyone agrees that both nature--including genes and physiology--and nurture--including diet environment and social interactions--contribute to the likelihood that an individual will behave in a certain way
Now a new NASA study published today in the journal Nature shows that the appearance of canopy greening is caused not by a biophysical change in Amazon forests
Thus the nature of the association between dairy product intake and type 2 diabetes remains unclear prompting the authors to carry out this new investigation using much more detailed assessment of dairy product consumption than was done in past research.
Because of the nature of colony losses it is very difficult to collect key information on the cause
and forestry while an introduced plant spreading uncontrollably in nature can become a major concern. The reason why plants sometimes function very differently in a new environment is a question that many researchers are currently focusing on.
such as pest controlservices provided by Mother Nature such as pest control from insect-eating bats are affected by market forces like most anything else in the economy a University of Tennessee Knoxville study finds.
and pesticides that replace nature's services such as pollination and natural pest control diminish the importance of protecting ecosystems said LÃ pez-Hoffman
and promote biodiversity in the tropics available online in the journal Nature Climate Change on January 26.
or existing parks These shifts in the conceptualization of urban nature and human roles in it have to some extent created openings for the return of productive practices such as farming horticulture and beekeeping to public green spaces.
Within the next decade we plan to exploit the specialised nature of these effectors to develop proteases that are resistant to their action
The researchers reported their work yesterday in Nature Nanotechnology. Water evaporation is the largest power source in nature Sahin said.
Sunlight hits the ocean heats it up and energy has to leave the ocean through evaporation he explained.
These findings have now been published in the journal Nature Communications. Grain formation during growth of kesterite solar cells observed in real-timeas starting material for the formation of the kesterite film serves a carpet of nanorods:
'The study published in Nature looked at seedling plots across 36 sampling stations in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve Belize.
In their analysis they included only conservation lands--current nature reserves and those that South african conservation officials plan to acquire--that contained land suitable for growing one of the two crops either currently or in the future.
The research is published today in the journal Nature. While they are vital to our diet the long chains of natural polymeric carbohydrates that make up dietary fibre are impossible for humans to digest without the aid of our resident bacteria says UBC professor Harry Brumer with UBC
Male honey bees more susceptible than females to widespread intestinal parasitegender differences in nature are common including in humans.
These findings demonstrate the delicate nature of male honey bees which are important to honey bee colony reproduction to a well-distributed parasite.
The research funded primarily by the U s. Department of agriculture Office of International Research Programs is published in the most recent edition of the journal Nature Communications. â#oethis technology allows improvement of fiber quality in upland cotton
In a letter published today in the journal Nature an international research group reports that 97 percent of 403 tropical and temperate species grow more quickly the older they get.
and snare removal campaigns as well as camera trapping in the rural areas outside of Hunchun National Nature Reserve (HNR) since last January.
and they produce nature's best fertilizer for your garden. Don't try to do it all alone.
Traditionally, people had a huge respect for nature--they lived with nature and not against it,
whereas in Western culture, you conquer nature and use it to your advantage. But you can't fight nature.
Look at what happened with the tsunami. In Japan, the disaster has made a lot of people anti-nuclear,
or that the imperfection you find in nature is perfect. This chair is made entirely out of Hurricane Katrina debris. In 2005 we were hired by Metropolis magazine to make an instillation.
Since Mao zedong's call for Man to Conquer Nature in the mid-20th century, environmental concerns have taken a backseat to economic growth in China.
It like a return to nature, says Sergio Ora, the Italian agent for Shwood. The company also recently launched a limited line of (surprisingly light) stone frames made of slate with a walnut interior.
builders and materials makers to make structures that work with nature, not against it. In nature, every organism has to be as efficient as possible with its use of resources.
There no way an organism can use more energy than it produces said Alexis Karolides, an architect with the Rocky mountain Institute in Boulder,
Think of how nature designed it first with a form and a function in mind. Right now, biomimetic innovations have provided already revolutionary ideas for how new buildings are cooled and heated, one of the most energy intensive systems in a structure.
Collaborations between designers and botanists are finding pragmatic ways to blur the line between manmade construction and nature.
THE BUILDINGS ARE ALIVE While today biomimetic architecture incorporate pieces of nature into buildings design,
Armstrong and Spiller wrote in a piece published last year in the journal Nature. In an interview from a lab in Denmark
Now, using technological innovation coupled with inspiration from the biological processes of nature, these dreams are becoming a reality.
Preserving heritage and nature in Hong kong s urban jungle is not new even fruit bats might escape habitat destruction after conservationist lobbying.
Since then, the Raw part of the concept has become less literal, more a nod to the affair's back-to-basics nature.
The work was published in Nature Communications this week. Via Science Image: Erling Jirle, Department of biology, Lund University, Sweden
which translates into Nature protects if she is protected. In the next few decades losses of flora, fauna and ocean's ecosystems will impact food supply
Ashok Khosla, head of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world's oldest environmental network.
Researchers for Nature Journal, who conducted a study in 60 protected areas of Africa, Asia and South america, found that even these final refuges of threatened species are vulnerable to human encroachment and environmental stresses.
head of the Salim Ali Foundation for nature conservation, said that ABS was a wonderful idea
It s a changing time that now allows, because of the nature of the challenges far greater integration.
if nature doesn t give you all the diversity you need? If you can t find the right variety of crops to withstand a drought
Ultimately though, we'd be pressed hard to come up with anything greener than the kind of solutions engineered with the help of mother nature herself.
it's nice to know that nature on its own can provide that kind of support, aided slightly by technology.
As well as humans continue to disconnect from nature --because we're more and more an urban species--we're losing the acoustic link to nature.
In many cases we've lost the visual one. But losing the acoustic one is very important.
building materials and a host of other products drawn from nature. The second issue is environmental degradation,
and it s the biological resources in nature which we will need to adapt. Equally important is the ability of biodiversity to mitigate against the impact of the carbon we release.
Nature should be our greatest asset but we are degrading it instead oe and this is at our peril.
For example many in the financial sector are seeing that we may mimic the cycles of nature in an economic carbon cycle.
and to realize that by working with nature we can do more sustainably, and for the longer-term,
What does it feel like to be out in nature and how does it feel to see the biodiversity diminish?
Recent studies suggest that contact with nature can have positive effects on our mental health. How has the UN International Year of Biodiversity helped raise awareness?
In social studies, students can recreate replica scale models of the Pyramids of Giza as they conduct research about the mathematics and historical nature of these ancient wonders.
--and the secretive nature of management does not help the situation. Â Many reviews also suggest that it is hard to advance
like genetically modified (GM) food--such as Roundup Ready soybeans--should we be concerned that scientists are tinkering with Mother Nature?
is it really sustainable to tip nature's scales so drastically
Bringing the cloud to the farmthe beautiful vistas of the heartland are hardly short on clouds,
WORKAC created Nature City, which is exactly as its sounds, for Keizer, Oregon. Â Oregon law requires the state's cities to have an Urban Growth Boundary,
A model for Nature City in Keizer City, Oregon, by WORKAC The architects suggest new town houses and courtyards,
Similar to Nature City, wildlife is encouraged to enter. REAL DEMOGRAPHICS, NOT AN IDEALIZED MARKETPLACE Clearly, from the proposals on view in Foreclosed,
photo of Nature City model by WORKAC, Â 2011 James Ewing
Can employment create peace? Bpeace CEO Toni Maloney Bpeace cofounder and CEO Toni Maloney wants to create one million jobs in 1,
nature shops, craft shops and bookshops. Mehra now supplies papers to 35 stores all over the country.
such as the nature of the soil, the nature of the crop involved or weather. The system is currently being tested at Norcal Harvesting,
a last-ditch measure for saving traces of nature before it is gone. But if they aren't enough,
Mother Nature has five types of sugars--we can use two types, six-carbon and five-carbon sugars found in nature.
Smartplanet: Cobalt has seen investment from Vantagepoint, Pinnacle, LSP and Harris & Harris, among others. How did you convince them that biofuels could be done?
as you'll read in a minute) started working with the Nature Conservancy on initiatives focused on water balance.
The report published by Coca-cola and the Nature Conservancy, Product Water Footprint Assessments: Practical application in Corporate Water Stewardship, drills down more deeply into three specific examples of how Coca-cola is working on this problem.
flexibility and connection to nature, are key features for design. It s more relatable to human sensibilities, Â Lee said.
Here's some perspective from The Nature Conservancy (TNC: The photo comparison below shows the effects of fire suppression.
That holds the promise of adding a tremendous variety of crops in regions where nature today limits the choices.
The study, published in Nature, reveals that the organism's unusually large genome size more than twice that of closely related species
Nature explains. The team tweaked the protein-producing genes, not to alter the sequence of the human protein,
The work was published in Nature Communications this week. Via Nature News Image by Waytru via Flickr
Dupont breaks ground on $200m cellulosic ethanol plantwhile dozens of companies, including BP, have ditched plans to produce cellulosic ethanol,
If you look at packaging in nature, like a banana peel, it does perfect job of just protecting something for a short time.
Your approach is to create materials that fit into nature s recycling system. We have a plastic that s alive a living polymer.
if you keep them dry and out of nature. You can think of it as being biocompatible with our planet.
You say mushrooms are nature s recycling system. Explain that. In general most of the things in plants that are hard to recycle,
Shank served as executive director of the Ohio Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. He is a board member of the Ohio Environmental Council and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
It s derived from a fungus that s found in nature and we re growing that commercially so we can grind it up
saying that approving the fish is messing with Mother Nature in a very serious and big way.
It's like releasing a cow into nature--it does not know how to survive, much less procreate,
and what nature itself does, is try to make a more efficient animal, Bendukidze says.
Publishing yesterday in Nature Climate Change, the researchers find that producing biofuel from forests would release 14 percent more greenhouse emissions than proceeding with current management practices.
little did they know the force of nature they were up against. A group of endangered fruit bats had taken up residency in the trees where the designers wanted to build a covered bridge to connect two of the buildings.
Yes, mother nature is playing party pooper again. This time, she's spreading a fungus that is attacking juniper trees,
former director of the World Wide Fund for Nature in Hong kong who is now an independent ecologist.
Each small section of this part of the farm is rented out for US$20 per month It s just human nature,
but the goal is to rely on nature, Quinzanos said. The clouds overhead grew dark blue and heavy,
But the folding nature of the modules makes them unique, says Don Carlson, who has owned the industry trade journal Automated Builder Magazine since 1974.
Vermont Nature Creations hawked glass hydroponic terrariums for apartment-bound plant enthusiasts and British art print specialist Gladstone Jones traveled here from Washington, D c,
India's poor most vulnerable to rapid biodiversity losshyderabad Â--Â India's poorest fishing, forest and farming communities will be worst hit by rapid losses of nature as well as efforts to conserve it.
The country is caught between development and conserving nature. An increasing number of coal and nuclear power plants as well as dams are being authorized to fuel a growing energy appetite.
and participate, said Ashok Khosla, head of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world's oldest environmental network.
And for that very reason they've long been regarded as mother nature's antidote for our carbon-emitting ways.
what he calls a personal obsession with how recursion works in both nature and programming.
Achmad Rabin Taim/Flickr via Nature News
Livestock: the eco-friendly, economically efficient alternative to lawn mowersgraveyard grazers also are used in England.
Look to nature for lessons in building resiliencythe Earth is changing at a climatic level, and we humans, in the wake of a growing list of extreme weather events and years-long trends, are scrambling to react.
For the architecture and engineering firm HOK, the pathway is found in nature. HOK formed an alliance in 2007 with Biomimicry 3. 8,
Nature Conservancy share watershed lessons Alliance to share water risk data; the value of wastewater Greenpeace challenges apparel industry to come clean Pushing for more disclosure Smarter home irrigation technologies Smart grid gains ground with water managers 3 water
It's about working with nature to create innovative and clever waterways throughout Melbourne--in our backyards and in public spaces.
my underlying inspiration is to mimic nature, where rainfall percolates through the soil and indigenous plantings, moves through the mountains and down to the river,
It took about a year to get that agency's stamp of approval, according to Nature News,
Nature News reports, so a version made by tobacco plants won't see approval anytime soon. This trial is the culmination of the EU Framework 6 Pharma-Planta consortium of about 30 academic institutions and small companies.
For example, 92 percent of soybeans and 85 percent of corn uses Monsanto technology, leaving them helpless when Mother Nature strikes back.
according to a Nature Biotechnology article published this week (subscription required). Why it matters The federal government has mandated that 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel be blended into transportation fuel by 2022.
The work was published in Nature today. Via Scientific American Image from Tian et al.
New system predicts most influential people on Twitterrepresentative Anthony Weiner (D-New york) needs to know about rumor centrality.
Nature News explains. All packs will be nearly identical, with the only variation being a vivid image which,
Via Nature News. Images: Australian Cancer Council and Action on Smoking and Health
Novel ways to fake ancient goodsbeijing   Strolling through Beijing's Panjiayuan Market, it's easy to imagine you've entered an antique treasure trove.
Nature clings, nature will adapt, nature will find a way to live. Even under concrete.
Nature is there: surrounding the grid of the city itself. These photographs, part of an ongoing Nature of Los angeles series, tell the story that moves beyond the stories of concrete that often color depictions of the West Coast metropolis. LA is a place you can take for granted,
said Davidson, Â But to hone in, and to look at something as magnificent as these enormous, wonderful trees.
It's not natural to fall in love with a palm tree. You'd have to have examined your head.
Picarro sensors can read'nature's bar code'You may have read about Picarro, which makes sensors for detecting
It's nature's bar code, he said. So, for example, it would be possible to distinguish corn-fed cattle from Vermont from their cousins from Texas or Idaho.
Some say the activity stems from the tangible nature of the problem; bad pollution is felt in the scratchy throats of All but regardless, among the young, hip and educated those opening new boutiques for modern Mexican design,
Nusbaum told Nature, I would hope that some clever plant pathologist would be able to genetically engineer resistance.
My previous book was about the politics of nature in Israel and Palestine. Â I come to the zoo
the importance of nature, the relationship between nature and the city, how different laws shape this place.
I was teaching a seminar on law and nature. The zoo director took us for a tour.
Zoo haters take the same perspective of romanticizing nature and say, This is not the way to teach my child how to love animals.
 Zoos are becoming the reservoir for animals in the wild at the same time nature is changing.
 Zoos and conservationists have to work together for the sake of sustaining some of the populations we once knew in nature.
But you don't understand anything about the environment and nature.''He told him:''The buffalo in the prairies are our brothers and the same thing for the deer.
and nature and we need that. Everything is going very fast now in these times. Nature is slow.
You have to take time. The flowers, the plants and the trees cannot grow faster than nature permits.
Planting Plane trees to Attract the Phoenix (Beijing) All in a Row (Madagascar) The Man Who Planted Trees (Mosaã Â cultures Internationales de Montrã Â al) Photos by Guy Boily
and animals that are by their own nature inefficient. Focusing on the constituents of the food,
and other radioactive elements not commonly found in nature thanks to our nuclear weapons testing. And we have created some new compounds that will be in the geologic record for a long time to come, the most ubiquitous
I spoke recently with Williams about the segmented nature of the tree of life  the challenges of the project and how an open tree of life could impact science in schools.
Johns hopkins university in Baltimore  observed that people who took a caffeine pill scored higher on memory tests than did swallowed those who a dummy tablet, the BBC reportsâ in a summary of an article in Nature Neuroscience.
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