Sunday, June 26, 2016

Photovoltaic cells inspired by flowers

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Scientists of KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and ZSW (Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg) have incre...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

More systematic use of genome-wide DNA for the detection of cryptic species needed

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Scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have made a discovery that could throw ...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Good bacteria: The key to coral reef survival

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 Dr. Tracy Ainsworth from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University who led a comprehensive research on...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Turning most commonly used synthetic plastic in to fuel

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Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) in China have devised a way t...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

First recorded extinction of a mammal in the world thought to due to human-induced climate change.

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Research led by Ian Gynther from Queensland’s Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, in partnership with the University of Que...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

World Wildlife Crime Report

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I just read the world wildlife crime report prepared by UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), with data provided by partner or...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

The significant role played by grandmas in Asian elephant groups

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Mirkka Lahdenperä, Khyne U. Mar and Virpi Lummaa, researchers from University of Turku in Finland have come to the conclusion that to ensu...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Stunning aerial view of the rarely seen Bryde's whale captured by drone

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This magnificent view of the rarely seen Bryde's whale was captured by a team of researchers from the Auckland University of Techn...
Thursday, June 09, 2016

The words pristine-landscape is a misnomer now

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Oxford researchers say Pristine' landscapes simply do not exist anywhere in the world today.   An exhaustive review of archaeological ...
Tuesday, June 07, 2016

The ultimate water collection toolkit of a moss

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Researchers Zhao Pan, William G. Pitt, Yuanming Zhang, Nan Wu, Ye Tao and Tadd T. Truscott from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace...
Monday, June 06, 2016

Nature apps - The potential is not fully exploited

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Nature apps have the power to harness cloud computing, social networking, and crowdsourcing. I believe we have not fully leveraged the pot...
Sunday, June 05, 2016

Avian scavenger crisis - The urgent need to look in to the trophic cascades, and loss of critical ecosystem functions

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The avian scavenger crisis: Looming extinctions, trophic cascades, and loss of critical ecosystem functions Evan R. Buechley and Çağan H...
Saturday, June 04, 2016

Owls are at disadvantage in an increasingly noisy world

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Latest research by Boise state university has come to the conclusion that external noise can impact hunting abilities of owls. This is the ...
Friday, June 03, 2016

Understanding factors that promote or limit the occurrence of tigers in working landscapes

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Conserving tigers in working landscapes Pranav Chanchani,Barry R. Noon,Larissa L. Bailey and  Rekha A. Warrier Conservation Biology ,V...
Wednesday, June 01, 2016

A drone that plants trees

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Have a look at this drone that plants trees

In grassland areas prescribed grassland burning is a must to maintain ecosystem says Kansas State University researchers

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Kansas State University researchers advise an increase in prescribed grassland burning to maintain ecosystem. They have found a three-year...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Cracking the mystery of bird egg colour

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The vibrant colors of many birds’ eggs, particularly those that are blue to blue-green have eluded evolutionary functional explanation. It...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Sharks of the same species can have different personalities- An interesting study

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A new study by E. E. Byrnes and C. Brown has come out with the finding that Sharks have individual personalities. The authors write  “...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Are you a young blue solution provider? Here is a golden opportunity to promote the projects of young people

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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Marine Young Professionals Task Force...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Best practice for minimizing drone disturbance to wildlife in biological field research

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 Researchers Jarrod C. Hodgson and Lian Pin Koh writing in the Cell Press journal Current Biology  on May 23 say that steps should be tak...