Huge declines in woodland birds
date: 2009-06-30 10:51:48 | Huge, declines, woodland, birds
The numbers of 18 woodland bird species including nightingales have plummeted, according to a 30-year survey.
date: 2009-06-18 18:52:56 |
date: 2010-03-10 20:57:43
EU nations decide to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover.
source: news.bbc.co.uk
date: 2010-03-10 15:19:03
Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta by the photojournalist Ed Kashi documents the consequences of fifty years of oil extraction in the Niger deltaEric HilaireShiona Tregaskis
source: www.guardian.co.uk
date: 2010-03-10 00:22:57
The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say.
source: news.bbc.co.uk
date: 2009-07-03 15:48:02
Bees smother hornets in a "bee ball" that kills the giant predators with heat and carbon dioxide.
source: news.bbc.co.uk
date: 2009-07-03 14:40:19
Hopes are dashed that some of the few remaining hirola antelope have managed to colonise new, safer territory.
source: news.bbc.co.uk
date: 2009-07-03 04:53:46
The mystery of Scotland’s shrinking sheep may have been solvedON THE remote island of Hirta, in the St Kilda archipelago beyond the Outer Hebrides, live hundreds of wild Soay sheep. Over the past 20 years biologists studying this primitive ...
source: www.economist.com
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date: 2010-03-04 23:49:53
An international panel of experts has strongly endorsed the idea that an asteroid impact was responsible for killing off the dinosaurs.
source: news.bbc.co.uk
date: 2010-03-04 14:09:07
You might think that measuring the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would be a priority. If you did think that, though, you would be wrongIN NEGOTIATIONS on nuclear weapons the preferred stance is ...
source: www.economist.com
date: 2010-03-04 12:51:13
The government is promising to put in place measures to protect the future funding of physics and astronomy in the UK.
source: news.bbc.co.uk
date: 2010-03-04 11:17:22
The earliest animal tracks yet found have been unearthed in CanadaONE of the greatest mysteries of the history of life is the Cambrian explosion. Prior to 560m years ago, animal fossils are rare. Then, in a geological ...
source: www.economist.com
date: 2010-03-04 11:17:22
If females must compete, evolution will furnish them with weapons to do soWHEN a species evolves traits that seem to have little to do with individual survival—bright colours, say, or oversize horns, it is ...
source: www.economist.com
date: 2010-03-04 11:17:22
How to predict the consistency of snow“THE wrong type of snow” became famous as a lame excuse in Britain in February 1991 when, caught out by a cold snap, British Rail blamed severe disruption to its ...
source: www.economist.com
date: 2010-03-04 11:17:21
In "Signs of life" (February 27th) we said that the Square Kilometre Array radio-telescope collaboration planned to build its grid over a square kilometre of land. In fact, it is the combined collecting area of the ...
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