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Last updated on February 4th, 2012
| Deep-reef coral hates the light, prefers the shade: Click here |
| Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, second only to tropical rain forests. Bird's nest coral (Seriatopora hystrix) is common throughout the Indo-Pacific and is able to live across a range of depths. (2011-10-17) |
| First global picture of greenhouse gases emerges from pole-to-pole research flights: Click here |
| A three-year series of research flights from the Arctic to the Antarctic has successfully produced an unprecedented portrait of greenhouse gases and particles in the atmosphere. (2011-09-09) |
| First global portrait of greenhouse gases emerges from pole-to-pole flights: Click here |
| A three-year series of research flights from the Arctic to the Antarctic has successfully produced an unprecedented portrait of greenhouse gases and particles in the atmosphere, scientists announced today. (2011-09-08) |
| New scholarly paper reveals 100 new species of lichenized fungi: Click here |
| In an unprecedented coming-out party, 100 newly discovered species are revealed to the world in a single scholarly paper coordinated by Field Museum scientists. (2011-02-15) |
| Scientists Determine What Makes an Orangutan an Orangutan: Click here |
| For the first time, scientists have mapped the genome--the genetic code--of orangutans. This new tool may be used to support efforts to maintain the genetic diversity of captive and wild orangutans. (2011-01-28) |
| Fledgling ecosystem at Chicken Creek lets scientists observe how soil, flora and fauna develop: Click here |
| How do ecosystems develop? No one really knows, yet. There is however one project, unique in the world, seeking to answer this question. (2010-12-07) |
| Land 'evapotranspiration' taking unexpected turn: huge parts of world are drying up: Click here |
| The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, a group of researchers conclude in the first major study to ever examine "evapotranspiration" on a global basis. (2010-10-11) |
| First-of-its-kind map details the height of the globe's forests: Click here |
| Using satellite data, scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map that details the height of the world's forests. Although there are other local- and regional-scale forest canopy maps, the new map is the first that spans the entire globe based on one uniform method. (2010-07-21) |
| New gecko species identified in West African rain forests: Click here |
| The West African forest gecko, a secretive but widely distributed species in forest patches from Ghana to Congo, is actually four distinct species that appear to have evolved over the past 100,000 years due to the fragmentation of a belt of tropical rain forest, according to a report in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (2010-06-02) |
| Global warming threatens plant diversity: Click here |
| In the coming decades, climate change is set to produce worldwide changes in the living conditions for plants, whereby major regional differences may be expected to occur. (2010-03-24) |
| New study debunks myths about Amazon rain forests: Click here |
| A new NASA-funded study has concluded that Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to a previously published report and claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (2010-03-12) |
| Tropical forests affected by habitat fragmentation store less biomass and carbon dioxide in the long term: Click here |
| Deforestation in tropical rain forests could have an even greater impact on climate change than has previously been thought. The combined biomass of a large number of small forest fragments left over after habitat fragmentation can be up to 40 per cent less than in a continuous natural forest of the same overall size. (2009-12-10) |
| A year after discovery, Congo's 'mother lode' of gorillas remains vulnerable: Click here |
| A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society says that western lowland gorillas living in a large swamp in the Republic of Congo-part of the "mother lode" of more than 125,000 gorillas discovered last year-are becoming increasingly threatened by growing humans activity in the region. (2009-11-24) |
| Funny, you don't look related: Click here |
| When Charles Darwin visited the Falkland Islands during the voyage of the Beagle in 1835, he saw a wolf-like species, wrote about it in his diaries and correctly commented that it was being hunted in such large numbers that it would soon become extinct. (2009-11-13) |
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