of nature reserves in agricultural landscapes study researcher Ullas Karanth the Wildlife Conservation Society's director for Science-Asia said in a statement.
In nature mold s ability to break down detritus (waste) ensures that dead matter doesn t accumulate.
In his 2005 book Last Child in the Woods which introduced the world to the term nature-deficit disorder journalist Richard Louv argued that children need to unplug from computers
Studies show that exposure to nature can help reduce ADHD symptoms; in schools with an environmental education component students score higher on standardized tests in math reading writing
and listening than their non-nature-exposed counterparts. Other positive effects include improved critical thinking problem solving and cooperation.
The antibiotic resistance study was an early hint about the dynamic nature of these genomes she adds.
and Prebiotics (ISAPP) published their findings this week in the journal Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology.
Seeing patterns in nature probably requires a mental search image for those patterns Byers said.
In a recent study in Nature an international team of scientists found that iron and zinc concentrations were reduced substantially in wheat rice soybean
And despite its vampirelike nature There's nothing supernatural about it Blacksburg told Live Science. Westwood and his colleagues studied how strangleweed parasitizes two common plants tomatoes and the small flowing plant Arabidopsis.
Instead of slowing down as the centuries add up old trees speed up their growth according to a study published today (Jan 15) in the journal Nature.
Chiappe and his colleagues detailed their findings online today (July 15) in the journal Nature Communications.
I was fortunate to lead a few nature hikes during my trip and the attendees found more millipedes than I did.
Nature Conservancy CEO Mark Tercek also is vegan and has said on his blog: As an environmentalist I think our global consumption of meat is far too high.
I know a crime against nature when I see one. While there is certainly much public
but given the complicated nature of glacial dynamics all of these attempts have been limited and prone to error.
The study findings were detailed earlier this month in the journal Nature Climate Change. Follow Laura Poppick on Twitter.
Malika Virah-Sawmy previously worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and continues to support the organisation with promoting sustainable business practices.
The term#supertaster is born These differences in perception are partly due to the nature of the receptors in your mouth
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List most ostrich subspecies are endangered not though their populations are declining.
or if it was part of the apes'basic nature. A new 54-year study suggests this coordinated aggression is innate to chimpanzees
The study was published today (Sept. 17) in the journal Nature. Follow Laura Geggel on Twitter@Laurageggel and Google+.
and nature at that point and they really were about philosophy too.##When you re traveling you have these expectations of
They said If you're interested in nature you have to go visit this tree.
and nature reclaiming something over time that we as humans have torn apart in an instant.
According to International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species no flamingo species is considered currently endangered.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural resources'Red List the jaguar is threatened near due to poaching and the destruction of the rainforest.
The findings were published March 16 in the journal Nature Communications. Email Becky Oskin or follow her@beckyoskin. Follow us@livescience Facebook & Google+.
The occurrence of such patterning in nature is rather unusual study researcher Stephan Getzin of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig Germany said in a statement.
I started to realize how simply nature carves all these shapes Bruthans said. The scientists conducted experiments with oven-dried cubes of sandstone that were weak enough that running water could erode them.
The scientists detailed their findings online today (July 20) in the journal Nature Geoscience. Follow Live Science@livescience Facebook & Google+.
The previous study whose authors included six of the same authors as the more recent study concluded that the most recent common ancestor of TB was 70000 years old according to the paper published in the journal Nature Genetics.
The study was published today (Aug 20) in the journal Nature. Follow Laura Geggel on Twitter@Laurageggel and Google+.
The ruminants Americans eat mainly cows pose the biggest threat to the climate according to an article in this month's edition of the journal Nature Climate Change.
and analysis at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a co-author of the Nature Climate Change article.
The results detailed online Jan 19 in the journal Nature Geoscience show that changes in climate can happen rapidly
Increased banditry illegal logging in national parks and nature reserves and a sharp increase in the hunting of lemurs as bush meat#has left them facing extinction.
San diego Zoo-Two-toed sloth National geographic-Two-toed sloth National geographic-Three-toed sloth BBC Nature-Three-toed sloth Smithsonian National Zoological Park-Slot l
Both species of chinchilla are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural resources'endangered-species list.
For example the Cuvier's gazelle's population is estimated at only 1750 to 2950 according to International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List.
An Aug 3 study in the journal Nature Climate Change found that faster trade winds over the Pacific bring up cold water and cool the atmosphere.
An Aug 17 study also in Nature Climate Change suggested the Pacific Decadal Oscillation climate cycle might be responsible for the hiatus. That cycle flips every 20 to 30 years.
and Southern Oceans said England who co-authored the Aug 3 Nature Climate Change study. Email Becky Oskin or follow her@beckyoskin. Follow us@livescience Facebook & Google+.
Michigan State university (MSU) panda habitat experts revealed the oft-hidden yet significant conservation conflict between pandas and horses in a recent article in the Journal for Nature Conservation.
Panda in Wolong Nature Reserve eating lunch from CSIS at MSU on Vimeo. For years timber harvesting has been the panda's biggest threat.
Vanessa Hull a doctoral student at 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 that she has outfitted with GPS collars.
One of the World s Most Endangered Primates In 2012 the International Union for the Conservation of Nature described 91 percent of the 103 known species and subspecies of lemurs as threatened with extinction;
How about insights into the culture of pornography or the nature of sexual fantasy?</</p><p>If so have we got the journal for you.</
and get to the food then cold temperature might actually cause some mortality urban ecologist Steve Sullivan of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museumin Chicago told Fox news Chicago.
The Nubian ibex is considered vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature because its numbers are decreasing;
If you have an amazing nature or general science photo you'd like to share for a possible story
The discovery of these bacteria also revealed clues to the dental hygiene and diets of these centuries-old humans according to the study detailed today (Feb 24) in the journal Nature Genetics. 5 Surprising Ways to Banish Bad
According to International Union for Conservation of Nature there are 7000 yellow-headed Amazons left in the wild.
Nature's Giants: Photos of the Tallest Trees On earth Biggest straw On earth Since the 1950s the Sierra nevada snowpack has shrunk by nearly 15 percent.
According to the Red List of Threatened Species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) the Asian elephant is endangered.
#'Climate Smart'Agriculture Is Blossoming (Op-Ed) David Cleary Director of Agriculture at The Nature Conservancy contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices:
#Food safety Returns To Nature (ISNS) Outbreaks of foodborne diseases carried by bacteria can be a nuisance at best and deadly at worst.
It's also relatively easy to find a similar phage in nature said Gill. Given those economic concerns getting to clinical trials for human treatment takes millions of dollars that many drug companies aren t willing to invest.
#oethey re the most abundant organism you can find in nature. We re just harnessing that antibacterial process#Ebner said.
The new findings were published today (June 26) in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers suspect that the close living style of the guenon species combined with repeated expansion
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Groot a walking talking tree seems to defy nature but how outlandish is the idea of a plant-animal hybrid?
In 4-ethyloctanal we identified a novel chemical that had never been demonstrated in nature before.
If you do the things right you can reveal some of nature's secrets Plafker said.
and its use shifted from ritualistic to hedonistic in nature she added. Drug plants on the other hand were cultivated never on a large scale.
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List these species are endangered:
and allowing them to graze in the protected panda habitat of Wolong National Nature Reserve new research finds.
The findings published in the Journal for Nature Conservation this week have made a difference however.
When Liu Hull and their colleagues presented the results to Wolong Nature Reserve officials they banned horses from the reserve.
and herding fundamentally changing human society and how people related to nature. To discover more about the initial conditions underlying the evolution of villages an international team of scientists investigated the site of AÅ Ä klä HÃ yã k the earliest known Neolithic mound in Cappadocia in central Turkey.
and his colleagues wrote Wednesday (April 23) in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers used an ocean model called the Nucleus for European Modeling of the Ocean (NEMO)
The creatures arrived at Vanatori Neamt Nature Park Romania on April 25. They will spend the next several weeks in a large enclosure to get used to their new home before being released.
The World's Biggest Beasts Glen Rosa and the other bison will join an already established herd in Vanatori Neamt Nature Park Romania to help augment both numbers
The species is considered vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN. Bison had a similar trajectory in the United states. Tens of millions of the animals once roamed the Great plains
Both are listed on the 25 Most Endangered Primates list published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission Primate Specialist Group.
Those who live here seem as tough as the desert landscape they inhabit living as much at the margins of nature as they have at the margins of American society.
Nature's 10 Biggest Pests An estimated 40 people in the United states die every year from stings by hymenoptera species. That group of insects includes some 150000 species of bees
The scientists detailed their findings online today (April 29) in the journal Nature Communications. Follow us@Livescience Facebook & Google+.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature suggests that brown hyaenas are under threat from human persecution
but they were eliminated from eastern North america within 200 years of colonization according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
carefully documents the non-selective nature of many of the lethal devices and methods used by Wildlife Services
even though their indiscriminate nature has been known for decades. For example in 1975 a former government-employed trapper testified before the U s. Congressabout the non-selective nature of leghold traps as referenced in the book Cull of the Wild:
A Contemporary Analysis of Wildlife Trapping in the United states: Even though I was experienced an professional trapper my trap victims included non-target species such as bald eagles and golden eagles a variety of hawks and other birds rabbits sage grouse pet dogs deer
And scientists continue to describethe indiscriminate nature of snares. While studying the impacts of wolf snares on moose Alaska biologist Craig Gardner reported in the journal Alces:
Nature makes the rules and life finds the loopholes as the old saying goes. Our loopholes may come from finding solutions to our demands for continuing our good life without destroying the planet.
and American black bears) are endangered or vulnerable according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The giant panda is endangered the most bear.
and now Africa with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently recognizing 12 of the 16 species as at risk.
All 4 Gorilla Subspecies The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists the Gorilla beringei species (mountain gorillas
The anonymity and online nature of how science papers are reviewed can make the message even blunter.
Bighorn sheep are endangered not according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It is estimated that there are 15500 to 15700 bighorn sheep in Canada
She has landed On earth to create games about nature for her fellow Blorbians. Many aspects of Earth including plants animals
they including Plum have been longing to experience nature On earth. So Plum commandeers a space ship
and document their progress using the web game Nature Sketchpad or the mobile app Plum s Photo Hunt (iphone ipod Touch ipad) allowing children to draw scenes
#oethe drawing submissions from the online Nature Sketchpad and the photographic submissions from Plum s Photo Hunt app feed in an orderly way into a Django database for
#Up Ahead WGBH is now working on a family engagement campaign for the fall a national initiative designed to appeal directly to families to get outside connect with nature
Wild water buffalo are endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. They have a population of less than 4000 though it is uncertain
Nature Newsa plague of crop-eating caterpillars has struck Liberia and a second wave could spread across West Africa in the next few weeks,
Nature Newsozone experts are exploring ways to curb powerful greenhouse gases of their own making under the Montreal Protocol,
which is 11,700 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas (M. Wara Nature 445,595-596;
Nature Newslike many remote islands, the Galapagos islands that fired Charles darwin's imagination are both a hotbed of biodiversity
Nature Newstrees in the western United states and Canada are dying more quickly than they used to,
Nature Newswhen the Ebola Reston virus was discovered in pigs in the Philippines last year, it marked the virus's first known foray outside primates,
Nature 438,575-576; 2005). ) It's almost certainly the case in the Philippines, says Rollin.
Nature Newson 13 january, the US Department of agriculture (USDA) launched a service that allows dairy-cattle breeders to double their chances of selecting the best bulls to sire milk-producing cows.
Nature Newstropical forest that has regrown after clear-cutting can become almost as biodiverse as untouched forest, according to new research.
Nature Newsthe European union (EU) is due next month to finally approve controversial legislation to tighten up pesticide rules.
Nature Newsa team of researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, is suggesting that changing the crops farmers grow might help to cool the planet by reflecting more sunlight.
Nature Newsplants cannot make methane, say researchers seeking to resolve a mystery that has puzzled biologists for several years.
Nature Newsclick here for a description of who's who. On the role of science:
Nature Newswith a combination of carefully groomed landscapes and the natural splendour of tropical rainforests, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical garden (XTBG) in China's southwestern Yunnan province is renowned for its exceptional beauty (see map.
and restore some of those in the buffer zones of national nature reserves that have been converted to rubber plantations.
to serve as crucial links between islands of existing nature reserves. A special village committee runs the fund,
Nature Newsrising temperatures during crop-growing seasons will pose a serious threat to food security by 2090, scientists report.
Nature Newssaleemul Huq of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in London, is a pioneer of adaptation to climate change.
Nature News caught up with Huq in Dhaka, Bangladesh, at the Third International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change,
Nature Newsthe climate community is counting the costs of losing NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO),
Nature Newsas farmers around the world anxiously monitor the march of a deadly orange fungus across their wheat fields,
Nature Newschina must rapidly improve its outdated irrigation infrastructure if its ambitious plans to save water are to be realized,
Nature Newseurope has failed to reach a decision on whether France and Greece should be ordered to lift their national bans on cultivation of a genetically modified maize (corn) known as MON801,
Nature Newsresearchers warn that the overuse of nitrogen fertilizer in China is poisoning air, soil and water and say farmers could cut their use of the fertilizers without compromising crop yields.
Nature Newsaustralian firefighters are desperately trying to extinguish the worst bushfires that the country has seen in decades, causing more than 170 deaths so far in the state of Victoria.
Nature asks if savage blazes such as these will get more frequent in a warming world,
Nature Newsthe creation of human-animal hybrid embryos proposed as a way to generate embryonic stem cells without relying on scarce human eggs has met with legislative hurdles and public outcry.
Nature Newsone of the most famous experiments in biology isn't the solid piece of work it's usually portrayed as,
because nature speaks with an unambiguous voice. Speaking as a sociologist, I'd say it's a historical process,
Nature Newsthe tropical forests of South america, Africa and Asia take up and release huge amounts of carbon each year.
Nature Newshumans rode and milked horses as early as 3500 BC, say an international group of researchers.
Nature Newsafter decades of searching, plant biologists have found a way to selectively snip out one gene
In 1997, a Nature paper reporting targeted gene disruption in Arabidopsis raised the hopes of many plant researchers3.
Nature Newsa new strain of swine flu-influenza A (H1n1)- is spreading around the globe. This timeline will be updated continually with key dates, drawing on authoritative information from the World health organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other sources.
For more on the situation see the Nature News swine flu special, and read updates on The Great Beyond blog.
Nature Newsthe state of California has adopted regulations to curb greenhouse-gas emissions from transportation fuels,
Nature Newschris Whitty became head of research at the UK Department for International Development last month.
Nature News caught up with Whitty, a clinical epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, to find out more about the department's ambitious five-year research strategy.
Nature Newsa white-faced, red-coated Hereford cow named Dominette has become the first cow to have sequenced its genome.
Nature Newsthe US Environmental protection agency (EPA) today declared greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare, a move that gives the Obama administration broad powers to regulate greenhouse gases without going through Congress.
Nature Newsforestry experts have warned again that climate change could transform forests from sinks to sources of carbon.
Nature Newssince the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) crashed into the ocean minutes after its 24 february launch,
Nature Newsprotected areas can rapidly become parks only on paper if their status as reserves is backed not by the authorities
Nature Newsthe Australian government's proposed cap-and-trade scheme to regulate greenhouse gases, released in draft legislation last month,
-and-trade bill as Nature went to press. And on 20 march the US Environmental protection agency submitted a proposed finding to the White house,
Nature Newssufficient efforts are not being made to protect 10%of the world's forests by 2010 as agreed under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) according to a new analysis1.
It shows that only 7. 7%are protected currently according to categories established by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN),
Nature Newsvehicles propelled by biomass-fired electricity would travel farther on a given crop and produce fewer greenhouse-gas emissions than vehicles powered by ethanol,
Nature Newsthe water plumes erupting from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus could be caused by a liquid ocean lurking many kilometres underground rather than by geysers erupting from a salty ocean just beneath the moon
Nature Newsmost African farmers will be able to find heat-resistant crop varieties within their own borders or in other countries on the continent,
Nature Newspublic-health experts are warning that a lack of surveillance may be allowing the 2009 pandemic H1n1 flu virus to go undetected in pigs.
Nature advance online publication doi: 10.1038/nature08182; 2009), Gavin Smith, a flu geneticist at the University of Hong kong,
Moreover, Nature has learned that the international community was warned of such a risk in a presentation at a closed meeting between the OIE, THE WHO and the Food and agriculture organization of the united nations in Paris in February.
Nature Newsusing a combination of three genetic mutations, plant researchers have disrupted the usual process of genetic shuffling during the formation of reproductive cells male pollen and female ova.
Nature Newsan international treaty aimed at protecting and improving access to the world's plant genetic resources is set to dole out its first round of research grants this week amid cash-flow problems that could endanger future awards.
Nature Newscarbon dioxide emissions from deforestation in the Amazon are increasing as loggers and land developers move deeper into dense regions of the forest,
Nature Newsacross the United states, researchers are firing up experiments to determine how rising temperatures could reshape the nation's forests.
But as the US Department of energy phases out a number of large-scale forest experiments designed to look at the effects of elevated carbon dioxide levels (see Nature 456,289;
really knows whether the way that we're warming will have some effects that might be different from the way that nature will warm forests in the future.
Nature Newsfarmers in the Ethiopian village of Adi Ha have been busy sowing fresh crops of grain in recent weeks,
Nature Newson 10 july, G8 leaders promised to dedicate US$20 billion over three years to food security around the world.
talks to Nature News about how research fits into this new model of agricultural development.
Nature Newsfamily trees for pandemic influenza have revealed that components of deadly flu viruses probably lurk in humans
Nature Newsas far as your immune system is concerned, the pandemic H1n1 (swine flu virus currently circling the globe bears an uncanny resemblance to an influenza virus that wreaked havoc nearly a century ago,
Nature Newsfollowing up on a non-binding pledge to halve its emissions by mid-century, the Mexican government is finalizing regulations that would curb the country's projected emissions by more than 6%over the next three years.
Nature Newsthe ability to adapt to a new environment may not always be beneficial for long-term success in flour beetles at least.
Nature Newslaboratory studies suggest that it may be possible for insects to overcome two disparate toxins produced by genetically modified cotton.
Nature Newsmillions of hectares of land will be needed to meet growing energy demands in the United states over the next two decades, according to new'energy sprawl'estimates.
says study author Robert Mcdonald, a landscape ecologist with The Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental organization based in Arlington, Virginia.
a policy expert at The Nature Conservancy and a co-author of the study. If we are to prevent serious, damaging climate change,
Nature Newspolicy Events Business Facilities Environment<br></br>The week ahead Sound bites Number crunch<br></br>Policy Stem cells:
-and-trade scheme to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from industry (see Nature 458,554-555; 2009).
as Nature went to press, it had failed to put its observation satellite into its intended orbit.
As Nature went to press, environmental groups seeking to block the use of air guns during the tests (see Nature 460,939;
2009) were expected to return to court on 25 august to try to divert the RV Marcus Langseth from her mission.
The product's manufacturer, Geron in Menlo Park, California, had hoped to start human testing of its potential treatment for spinal-cord injury this summer (see Nature 457,516;
as the cost of solar panels plummeted in the first half of 2009 (see also Nature 460,677;
A nuclear reactor in Petten, The netherlands, that supplies radioactive isotopes for use in medical imaging reopened last week after a month's scheduled maintenance partly alleviating a global shortage of the isotopes (see Nature 460,312-313;
The FDA won powers to regulate tobacco for the first time in its 103-year history under legislation passed by Congress in June (see Nature 459,901;
Nature Newsjapanese research teams have pinpointed the genes in hardy varieties of rice that help the plants to outgrow rising paddy-field waters
Nature Newsthe health of the world's forests and their capacity to lock away carbon could be jeopardized by logging
Nature Newsalong the Trans-Amazonian Highway in the Brazilian state of Par ¡,, many landowners try to boost their income by clearing a hectare or two each year for farms or cattle grazing.
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