13-06-29 Cattle grazing and clean water can coexist on national forest lands, according to research by the University of California, Davis. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, is the most comprehensive examination of water quality on National Fores...

13-06-08 Over the years ecologists have shown how biological diversity benefits the health of small, natural communities. New analysis by ecologists at UC Santa Cruz demonstrates that even higher levels of biological diversity are necessary to maintain ecosy...

13-06-08 A poor wood-cutter lived with his wife and three daughters in a little hut on the edge of a lonely forest. One morning as he was about to go to his work, he said to his wife, Let my dinner be brought into the forest to me by my eldest daughter, or I...

13-06-05 Catching the attention of female lizards in a darkened rainforest amid a blur of windblown vegetation is no easy task. But male Anolis lizards on the island of Jamaica have evolved an ideal visual technique -- very rapid extension and retraction of...

13-05-23 Swedish scientists have mapped the gene sequence of Norway spruce（云杉） (the Christmas tree) -- a species with huge economic and ecological importance -- and that is the largest genome to have ever been mapped. The genome is complex and seven time...

13-05-21 The Amazon rain forest, popularly known as the lungs of the planet, inhales carbon dioxide as it exudes oxygen. Plants use carbon dioxide from the air to grow parts that eventually fall to the ground to decompose or get washed away by the region's p...

13-04-25 A certain tailor who was great at boasting but ill at doing, took it into his head to go abroad for a while, and look about the world. As soon as he could manage it, he left his workshop, and wandered on his way, over hill and dale（山谷） , sometim...

13-03-05 African forest elephants are being poached out of existence. A study just published in the online journal PLOS ONE shows that across their range in central Africa, a staggering（蹒跚的，令人惊愕的） 62 percent of all forest elephants have been kille...

13-02-01 A team of scientists have described twenty four new species of dipterans（双翅类昆虫） belonging to Quichuana genus, of which only a further 24 species were known. The researchers, including two Spanish biologists, have been studying the forests of...

12-10-17 Northern Alberta's boreal（北方的） forest shows a surprising resiliency to human intrusion（闯入） , but University of Alberta researchers warn the landscape has a definite breaking point. The U of A research team led by graduate student Stephen Ma...