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Ecosystem
An ecosystem refers to all living and nonliving features of a particular physical location. This includes living organisms as well as non living things, like weather, that interact with one another.
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JAN 31, 2017Earth & The Environment
News about President Trump’s executive orders encouraging the advancement of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pip ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 22, 2017Videos
The coral reefs in the Caribbean and South Pacific oceans attract scuba divers and snorkelers from all over the world. I ...JAN 18, 2017Plants & Animals
The world around us is changing, and a lot of that has to do with our very own hand. If you were to compare the world no ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 17, 2017Microbiology
More than half of all known plant species survive in rainforests on wet, infertile soil. A different kind of environment ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 16, 2017Earth & The Environment
What do you know about the environmental impact that your laundry habits have? According to Energy Star, the avera ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 13, 2017Videos
In the following video from Illumina Inc you can get a look at the some of the research done by Caroline Roper of the Un ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 06, 2017Videos
In order to reverse the drift of the desert and allow people to live better off their land, Northern Africa has embarked ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanDEC 23, 2016Earth & The Environment
The governor of a province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo approved the boundaries of a 1,477-square-kilomet ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanDEC 22, 2016Plants & Animals
A fossilized relic encased inside of a hunk of amber appears to be a well-preserved specimen of a dinosaur tail with fea ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 16, 2016Microbiology
If you don’t love amoebas, there’s something wrong with you. Amoebas are adorable, little single-cell ...Written By: Kerry EvansDEC 14, 2016Immunology
Zika expert James Diaz, MD, PhD from the Louisiana State University New Orleans School of Public Health is familiar with ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 25, 2016Microbiology
Diplonemids are tiny, single celled organisms that are members of the protozoa kingdom, and were basically ignored by th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 16, 2016Health & Medicine
A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment earlier this month examines the impacts of ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 15, 2016Cancer
Bacteria have all but hogged the limelight in our recent understanding of microbiomes and how these ecosystems influence ...NOV 13, 2016Microbiology
Researchers have demonstrated that the consumption of prey by predators can stimulate a cyclical increase and decrease i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 10, 2016Earth & The Environment
This article has been republished from Mongabay News. It has been edited for publication purposes. The developers behind ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 04, 2016Videos
According to the geologic time scale, Earth has already experienced five mass extinctions. The most famous mass extincti ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 30, 2016Plants & Animals
Bushmeat hunting may be hurting the balance of the natural ecosystem and destroying food security for nations around the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 23, 2016Videos
Gary King, PhD, Professor of Microbial Biology, Louisiana State University gives a lecture on global climate change and ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 19, 2016Videos
After death, decomposition starts, a process that is aided by microbes. The decomposing corpse becomes a veritable minia ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 19, 2016Earth & The Environment
There has been found to be a trend throughout forests across all different biomes: Wooded areas with more tree species t ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 18, 2016Earth & The Environment
Due to torrential rains from Hurricane Matthew, rivers in eastern North Carolina are flooding a region that is home to p ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 14, 2016Earth & The Environment
The name is understandable enough: deep sea mining. Mining in the deep seas. Mining for minerals such as copper, gold, m ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 31, 2017
Earth & The Environment
News about President Trump’s executive orders encouraging the advancement of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pip
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 22, 2017
Videos
The coral reefs in the Caribbean and South Pacific oceans attract scuba divers and snorkelers from all over the world. I
...
JAN 18, 2017
Plants & Animals
The world around us is changing, and a lot of that has to do with our very own hand. If you were to compare the world no
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 17, 2017
Microbiology
More than half of all known plant species survive in rainforests on wet, infertile soil. A different kind of environment
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 16, 2017
Earth & The Environment
What do you know about the environmental impact that your laundry habits have? According to Energy Star, the avera
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 13, 2017
Videos
In the following video from Illumina Inc you can get a look at the some of the research done by Caroline Roper of the Un
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 06, 2017
Videos
In order to reverse the drift of the desert and allow people to live better off their land, Northern Africa has embarked
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 23, 2016
Earth & The Environment
The governor of a province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo approved the boundaries of a 1,477-square-kilomet
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 22, 2016
Plants & Animals
A fossilized relic encased inside of a hunk of amber appears to be a well-preserved specimen of a dinosaur tail with fea
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 16, 2016
Microbiology
If you don’t love amoebas, there’s something wrong with you. Amoebas are adorable, little single-cell
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
DEC 14, 2016
Immunology
Zika expert James Diaz, MD, PhD from the Louisiana State University New Orleans School of Public Health is familiar with
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 25, 2016
Microbiology
Diplonemids are tiny, single celled organisms that are members of the protozoa kingdom, and were basically ignored by th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 16, 2016
Health & Medicine
A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment earlier this month examines the impacts of
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 15, 2016
Cancer
Bacteria have all but hogged the limelight in our recent understanding of microbiomes and how these ecosystems influence
...
NOV 13, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers have demonstrated that the consumption of prey by predators can stimulate a cyclical increase and decrease i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 10, 2016
Earth & The Environment
This article has been republished from Mongabay News. It has been edited for publication purposes. The developers behind
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 04, 2016
Videos
According to the geologic time scale, Earth has already experienced five mass extinctions. The most famous mass extincti
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 30, 2016
Plants & Animals
Bushmeat hunting may be hurting the balance of the natural ecosystem and destroying food security for nations around the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 23, 2016
Videos
Gary King, PhD, Professor of Microbial Biology, Louisiana State University gives a lecture on global climate change and
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 19, 2016
Videos
After death, decomposition starts, a process that is aided by microbes. The decomposing corpse becomes a veritable minia
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 19, 2016
Earth & The Environment
There has been found to be a trend throughout forests across all different biomes: Wooded areas with more tree species t
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 18, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Due to torrential rains from Hurricane Matthew, rivers in eastern North Carolina are flooding a region that is home to p
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 14, 2016
Earth & The Environment
The name is understandable enough: deep sea mining. Mining in the deep seas. Mining for minerals such as copper, gold, m
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan