Flashlight Fish and their Glow-In-The-Dark Friends
Animals are unable to tell us why they do the things they do, and curious scientists often want to find out. They set up experiments to see…
Category: Ecology
Bacteria-Powered Battery Helps Remove Lake Pollution
Nitrogen pollution is a big problem in standing water such as lakes and ponds. The nitrogen comes from many sources, often agricultural…
Growing plants with colored light changes their nutrient content
Plants have five basic needs – food, water, air, light, and space. Outdoors, plants get everything they need from nature and some…
Grow High-Tunnel Lettuce Year Round on Fish Waste
A group of agricultural researchers at West Virginia University wanted to find out if it was possible to grow lettuce year round using high…
Can cold-loving bacteria help to clean up oil spills?
For several decades scientists have been interested in the ability of psychrophilic (cold- loving) microbial communities to degrade the…
People power in Kenya greatly improves local fisheries
Harnessing ‘people power’ to manage fisheries in the developing world has significantly benefited local communities and coral…
Decline in Fish Stocks at Puget Sound Hurts Diving Birds
Birds that dive for fish while wintering in the Salish Sea, located between British Columbia and Washington, are more likely to be in…
Climate change alters cast of winter birds
Over the past two decades, the resident communities of birds that attend eastern North America’s backyard bird feeders in winter have…
Colonization of new land drives the evolution of new hummingbird species
The first comprehensive map of hummingbirds’ 22-million-year-old family tree — reconstructed based on careful analysis of 284 of…
Diversity of lake cichlid species due to unusually high gene duplication
In an effort to understand the molecular basis of adaptation in vertebrates, researchers sequenced the genomes and transcriptomes of five…