An ocean apart, carnivorous pitcher plants create similar communities
Asian pitchers transplanted to Massachusetts bogs can mimic the living communities of natives so well that the pitcher plant mosquito -- a specialized insect...
How does agriculture affect vulnerable insect-eating birds?
Aerial insectivores -- birds that hunt for insect prey on the wing -- are declining across North America as agricultural intensification leads to diminishing...
China is hot spot of ground-level ozone pollution
In China, people breathe air thick with the lung-damaging pollutant ozone two to six times more often than people in the United States, Europe,...
How the forest copes with the summer heat
Between April and August this year, Switzerland and central Europe have experienced the driest summer season since 1864. Especially the forest seems to suffer...
Breakthrough could see bacteria used as cell factories to produce biofuels
Biologists have developed a new technique for manipulating small cell structures for use in a range of biotechnical applications including the production of biofuels...
Color vision makes birds of prey successful hunters
In many cases it is the color of the prey that helps predatory birds to detect, pursue and capture them. In a new study,...
The fate of plastic in the oceans
The concentrations of microplastics in the surface layer of the oceans are lower than expected. Researchers experimentally demonstrated that microplastics interact with natural particles...
Cold climates contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals
Climate change may have played a more important role in the extinction of Neanderthals than previously believed, according to a new study.
New technique to forecast geomagnetic storms developed
Flashes of brightness known as solar flares can be followed by coronal mass ejections that send plasma from the sun into space. These charged...
Beavers have an impact on the climate
A rising water level affects the interaction between beaver ponds, water and air, as well as the carbon balance of the zone of ground...
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