While the cat's away: How removing an invasive species devastated a World...
Removing an invasive species from sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, a World Heritage Site, has caused environmental devastation that will cost more than A$24 million to remedy, ecologists have revealed....
View ArticleChance of dying early 20 percent higher in north than south England
Since 1965, the chances of dying early (under 75) are a fifth higher in the north of England than the south, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today.
View ArticleHuman impacts of rising oceans will extend well beyond coasts
Identifying the human impact of rising sea levels is far more complex than just looking at coastal cities on a map.
View ArticlePercentage of teen drivers continues to drop
(Phys.org) -- Thirty years ago, eight in 10 Americans ages 17-19 had a driver's license. Today, it's six in 10, say University of Michigan researchers.
View ArticleScience paper says it's not too late for troubled fisheries
A study published in Science magazine and co-authored by Bren School Sustainable Fisheries Group (SFG) researchers and their colleagues confirms suspicions that thousands of "data-poor" fisheries,...
View ArticleScientists capture clues to sustainability of fish populations
Thanks to studies of a fish that gives birth to live young and is not fished commercially, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered that food availability is a critical limiting factor in the...
View ArticleSandy's surge affected more than 1.4 million in 11 states
This map depicts the coastal areas likely to have been inundated by the storm surge resulting from Hurricane Sandy in relationship to residential population. It is based on a model used by the U.S....
View ArticleChina development threatens wildlife, WWF says
From tigers to dolphins, animal populations in many of China's ecosystems have plummeted during decades of development and urbanisation, a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) study said Wednesday.
View ArticleThe dynamic of Spain's population follows the maximum entropy principle
A team of Spanish and Argentinean researchers have verified that the distribution of the inhabitants in each Spanish province evolves in accordance with the maximum entropy principle in the field of...
View ArticleA model predicts that the world's populations will stop growing in 2050
Global population data spanning the years from 1900 to 2010 have enabled a research team from the Autonomous University of Madrid to predict that the number of people on Earth will stabilise around the...
View ArticleAustralian blue whales now call Antarctica home
(Phys.org)—New findings suggest that the ecology of blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) – the largest living animal – has recently changed due to human activities. A team lead by researchers at...
View ArticleIllegal immigration drops after decade-long rise
(AP)—New census data released Thursday affirm a clear and sustained drop in illegal immigration, ending more than a decade of increases.
View ArticleElk bones tell stories of life, death, and habitat use at Yellowstone...
Josh Miller likes to call himself a conservation paleobiologist. The label makes sense when he explains how he uses bones as up-to-last-season information on contemporary animal populations.
View ArticleIs your smartphone secure? Tips to keep your information safe
With 6 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide—that's about 87 percent of the world population—and an even higher percentage of users estimated on campuses, Indiana University has embarked on a...
View ArticleCensus: Whites no longer a majority in US by 2043
White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2043, according to new census projections. That's part of a historic shift that already is reshaping the nation's schools, workforce and...
View ArticleA bigger melting pot: What the census really tells us
The people we live next to and start a family with are more likely than ever before to be from a diverse range of ethnic identities, according to research at The University of Manchester.
View ArticleAmazing map is made up of everyone in the US and Canada
Now this is something different: an interactive and zoomable map of the United States and Canada, made not from political boundaries or geographic landforms but rather of tiny dots—341,817, 095 of...
View ArticleUsing Twitter to predict the influence of lifestyle on health (w/ video)
(Phys.org)—Researchers at the University of Rochester showed last year how Twitter can be used to predict how likely it is for a Twitter user to become sick. They have now used Twitter to model how...
View ArticleScientists develop new model to measure vehicle emissions
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers in Boston University's Department of Earth and Environment have developed a new, bottom-up model for measuring on-road vehicle emissions. The model will be used in...
View ArticleUK: Neighbourhood segregation of ethnic groups declining
(Phys.org)—Ethnic group segregation in neighbourhoods has decreased throughout England and Wales for all minority groups over the last decade, a new study from the University of Liverpool has shown.
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