In Lifeâs Web, Aiding Trees Can Kill Them
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When elephants were removed from a research site in Kenya, a mysterious decline in the colonies of good ants and a growth in the colonies of bad ants emerged.
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Free Web game is designed to help kids learn better how to beat the disease.
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The fibers that make up blood clots are more elastic than rubber bands and stretchier than spider webs. They're even tougher than doctors suspected &#151; a discovery that could lead to improved treatment of heart attacks and strokes.
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U.S. biologists say although oak forests may be approaching extinction, lightning fires might play a vital role in their regeneration.
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For much of his life, Viroj Dedsongprak paid little attention to the mangrove forests that surrounded his Thai village. He thought nothing of it when neighbors chopped down trees for firewood or plowed them under for shrimp ponds.
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A vast online network is being used to promote social and environmental responsibility.
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By Ryan, Jim T  REGION  Exploitive ads proliferate on World Wide Web  Computer experts are advising companies and Web surfers to be wary about what they double-click on, even when visiting trusted sites.
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WASHINGTON - Researchers have deciphered for the first time the genetic code of a tree, which could lead to new varieties better at producing wood, paper and fuel.
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The average person in the Western world takes the Internet for granted, yet fewer than 20 percent of the 6 billion people living on this planet have access to it. Web-enabling 50 percent of the world&#39;s population by 2015 may sound ambitious, but that&#39;s AMD&#39;s goal for its 50x15 initiative, which will stress the use of alternative sources of sustainable, affordable power.
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A new report adds to the mounting evidence that relationships between plant and animal species can be far more complex than had been thought.
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An azure lake glimmered while ancient pines loomed nearby. My parents and I admired nature's simple beauty, but does everybody look up from their technological wonders to view the natural ones?  Nature gives us everything from oxygen to the material items we enjoy.
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The sudden boost trillions of cicadas dying en masse give to North American forest soils is apparent from a new study.
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It hardly seems fair, but water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators might harm their species more than help, new research suggests.
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By Margaret Slaby, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--You've planted and pruned, watered and watched it grow. And now, at last, the first crop of tree fruit is ripening on the branch. Then the birds descend. They perch and peck, pillage and plunder.
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WASHINGTON - Insects that emerge every 17 years in the eastern United States provide valuable nutrients to forest ecosystems when they die, an ecologist says.
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Even in death, the 17-year cicadas made their mark. Their decaying carcasses gave a super-size boost in nutrients to forest soil and stimulated seed and nitrogen production in a plant important to the forest ecosystem, researchers reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
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As I write this article a war is going on on the battlefield of the browsers (programs for surfing the internet such as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox).