News articles tagged with 'island'
Lava fingerprinting reveals differences between Hawaii's twin volcanoes
— 2 Dec 2011 10:53 | Geology and palaeontologyHawaii's main volcano chains - the Loa and Kea trends - have distinct sources of magma and unique plumbing systems connecting them to the Earth's deep mantle, according to UBC research…
Archaeologists find new evidence of animals being introduced to prehistoric Caribbean
— 2 Dec 2011 10:41 | BiologyAn archaeological research team from North Carolina State University, the University of Washington and University of Florida has found one of the most diverse collections of prehistoric…
New bird emphasises the critical need to conserve the remaining dry forests of Madagascar
— 24 Feb 2011 20:53 | BiologyIn a recent issue of the scientific journal Zootaxa, researchers from Madagascar and the United States described a new species of forest-dwelling rail. The new bird was named Mentocrex…
Genetic study uncovers new path to Polynesia
— 4 Feb 2011 16:19 | BiologySurprising new evidence which overturns current theories of how humans colonised the Pacific has been discovered by scientists at the University of Leeds, UK…
Mini or massive? For turtles and tortoises, it all depends on where you live
— 2 Feb 2011 16:13 | BiologyBiologists from the UCLA Division of Life Sciences have reported the first quantitative evidence for an evolutionary link between habitat and body size in turtles and tortoises…
Island-scale study reveals climate-change effects
— 31 Jan 2011 16:16 | EnvironmentA large-scale UC Davis experiment with ants, lizards and seaweed on a dozen Caribbean islands shows that predicting the effects of environmental change on complex natural ecosystems…
Tackling the erosion of a special river island
— 15 Dec 2010 17:38 | EnvironmentLocke Island is a small island in a bend of the Columbia River in eastern Washington that plays a special role in the culture of the local Indian tribes. Since the 1970s, however, it…
Humans helped vultures colonise the Canary Islands
— 13 Dec 2010 16:37 | BiologyThe Egyptian vulture population of the Canary Islands was established following the arrival of the first human settlers who brought livestock to the islands. A genetic comparison of…
Now that's what I call a rat
— 27 Jul 2010 10:04 | Geology and palaeontologyArchaeological research in East Timor has unearthed the bones of the biggest rat that ever lived, with a body weight around 6 kg. The cave excavations also yielded a total of 13 species…
New research on rapidly-disappearing ancient plant offers hope for species recovery
— 14 Jul 2010 10:16 | BiologyCycads, 'living fossil' descendents of the first plants that colonised land and reproduced with seeds, are rapidly going extinct because of invasive pests and habitat loss, especially…