Reducing Fisheries' By-Catch Through Mathematical Analysis

February 20, 2008 — Images of dolphins and turtles ensnared in tuna nets are a heart-wrenching reminder of the impact of fisheries on ocean bio-diversity. Known in fisheries science as 'by-catch,' this killing of ... > full story

• What Does The Future Hold For Biofuels?
  February 20, 2008 — High oil prices, energy security considerations and fears about global warming have helped revive interest in renewable energy sources like biofuels. But there are a few catches. For example, the ... > full story
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• Offsetting Global Warming By Trapping Carbon Dioxide On The Bottom Of The Ocean
  February 19, 2008 — Imagine a gigantic, inflatable, sausage-like bag capable of storing 160 million tons of carbon dioxide -- the equivalent of 2.2 days of current global emissions. Now try to picture that container, ... > full story
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• Giant Frog Jumps Continents, May Have Eaten Baby Dinosaurs
  February 19, 2008 — A giant frog fossil from Madagascar dubbed Beelzebufo or "the frog from Hell" has been identified. It would have been the size of a slightly squashed beach-ball, with short legs and a big mouth. If ... > full story
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• Global Trade In Tiger Shrimp Threatens Environment
  February 19, 2008 — The cultivation of shrimp and fish in tropical coastal areas is often described as an environmentally friendly way to alleviate poverty, but in fact this cultivation has negative consequences for ... > full story
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• Solar Cell Directly Splits Water To Produce Recoverable Hydrogen
  February 19, 2008 — Plants, trees and algae do it. Even some bacteria and moss do it, but scientists have had a difficult time developing methods to turn sunlight into useful fuel. Now, researchers have a ... > full story
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• Warming Waters May Make Antarctica Hospitable To Sharks: Potentially Disastrous Consequences
  February 19, 2008 — It has been 40 million years since the waters around Antarctica have been warm enough to sustain populations of sharks and most fish, but they may return this century due to the effects of global ... > full story
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• New Paradigm On Ecosystem Ecology Proposed
  February 19, 2008 — Predators have considerably more influence than plants over how an ecosystem functions, according to a Yale study in Science. Ecosystem ecologists have long held that plants and their interaction ... > full story
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• National Biomass And Carbon Dataset Now Available For US
  February 19, 2008 — Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center working to produce the "National Biomass and Carbon Dataset" for the US are releasing data from nine project mapping zones. Within each mapping zone data ... > full story
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• Living Corals Thousands Of Years Old Hold Clues To Past Climate Changes
  February 19, 2008 — New research shows that the second most diverse group of hard corals first evolved in the deep sea, and not in shallow waters. This finding contradicts a long-established theory suggesting that ... > full story