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ENN Twitter By combining aquaculture with wet paddy farming in its coastal areas Bangladesh can meet food security and climate change issues, says a new report. The approach promises more nutritious food, without causing environmental damage, and has the potential for a ‘blue-gr

Oh the things your smartphone can do! For the first time, data on current conditions on thousands of rivers and streams across the country, can be accessed from your smartphone, using USGS’ latest system WaterNow. WaterNow makes the water conditions monitored by more than 16,000

Social wasps build an internal society or specialized workers. How do they do this on a genetic level? What makes a wasp do one task or another? The workers all support the queen of the colony. Scientists at the University of Bristol have sequenced the active parts of the genome — or

One of the greatest concerns of global warming is the effects temperature will have on snow and icecaps. With Arctic ice melt, many scientists predict sea levels rise, affecting coastlines and populations around the world. Not only will warmer temperatures affect ice caps, but accordi

Dinosaurs often are depicted with very long necks. Nowadays we have the giraffe with a long neck who seem to have evolved this feature due to the need to eat leaves higher up. So why and how the dinosaur with its long neck? Researchers say the how is helped by hollow neck bones. The l

Even after the election of François Hollande as President of France, an energy conservation measure of the previous government will be implemented. ADVERTISEMENT The Sarkozy government wanted to require shops and offices to turn off their unnecessary lights at nights. This will be eff

Regional Director at Fauna Flora International (FFI), Dr Tony Whitte, shares his grave concern for the wondrous and diverse lifeforms that lurk in the darkness of Asia’s karst landscapes. Asia’s karst landscapes are yielding new biological discoveries at an astonishing rat

Animals and plants brought to Europe from other parts of the world are a bigger-than-expected threat to health and the environment costing at least €12 billion a year, a study said on Thurday (21 February). ADVERTISEMENT <!–/* * The backup image section of this tag has been g

Flowers are pretty and attractive for a variety of reasons. These all just means of communicating to likely pollinators. Flowers’ methods of communicating are at least as sophisticated as any devised by an advertising agency, according to a new study, published today in Science

Pheromones are chemical substances secreted or excreted by species that when released into the environment can affect the behavior or physiology of others. Basically, these chemicals trigger social responses and are crucial to the mating systems in a wide range of organisms. ADVERTISE