Researchers Looking Into Dying Aspens
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LOGAN, Utah - Aspen trees have been dying off, leaving dwindling numbers of the white-barked fixture of the Western mountain landscape. Nobody is quite sure why.
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A study of the humble fruit fly may hold the key to new treatments for human liver diseases and diabetes.
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By Gayle Perez, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Mar. 2--Researchers from Colorado State University-Fort Collins' Colorado Natural Heritage Program will be conducting a biological survey of ranch land in three Lower Arkansas Valley counties beginning this month.
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Recent sightings of the ivory-bill&#8212;believed extinct for 50 years&#8212;have experts hopeful the species can make a comeback if its forest habitat gets better protection.
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Scientists looking for a cure for skin cancer have stumbled on something else: the reason why hair turns gray. It turns out that one of the most common signs of aging occurs because of the death of stem cells
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Red spruce trees in New England and upstate New York suffered severe damage last winter, University of Vermont researchers have found.
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Contrary to the conventional wisdom, scientists have found that logging big dead trees after a wildfire and planting young ones makes future fires worse, at least for the first 10 or 20 years while the young trees create a volatile new source of fuel.
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By Bradley Olson, The Baltimore Sun  Mar. 4--A200-year-old white oak that sparked a statewide conservation effort in 1989 and led engineers to reroute an Annapolis thoroughfare will soon be turned into firewood.
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The whale's tiny ancestor, how global warming may be hurting plants' carbon-fixing ability, and the mystery of Mars's missing limestone
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Thousands of wildlife sleuths are being recruited for an inquiry into the affects of climate change on wildlife.
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Fall foliage delights leaf-peeping tourists, but how does the change in color benefit trees? As scientists explain, there is a reason for the season.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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Description: Researchers flooded the Colorado River last week, in an attempt to reverse erosion in the Grand Canyon. NPR&#39;s Liane Hansen speaks to Denny Fenn, director of the Southwest Biological Science Center, about the experiment&#39;s preliminary findings.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 19--Call it the sugar diet.   A University of Puget Sound botanist and her students are testing the sweetener's restorative powers on the South Sound's vulnerable short-grass prairies.
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Two summers spent in the company of forest mice - anesthetizing, vaccinating and reviving the critters with apple slices - is paying off for an MSU researcher.
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By Milbauer, Michelle L Leach, Mark K  MILBAUER, M. L., AND M. K. LEACH (University of Wisconsin- Madison Arboretum, 1207 Seminole Highway, Madison, Wisconsin 53711). Influence of species pool, fire history, and woody canopy on plant species density and composition in tallgrass prairie. J.
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An increasing number of redpolls are dying off in the Fairbanks area this winter, baffling wildlife biologists. Experts had suspected the red-capped finches were dying of salmonellosis, but preliminary cultures did not confirm the presence of the bacteria.