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Lack of funding for world crop diversity threatens sustainable food supply
Researchers from the Department of Agricultural Sciences at Imperial College have warned that a large proportion of the world's collection of crop diversity could be lost due to a lack of funding for the "genebanks" in which they are stored. In a report launched today at the United... view more (2002-08-28)

Madagascar`s lost wilderness @ the London `Catastrophes` conference
In the last 2000 years Madagascar has lost its entire endemic megafauna. This includes giant lemurs, pygmy hippos, elephant birds, and giant tortoises. This loss is the planet`s most recent prehistoric extinction event affecting a region with continental-scale diversity.   view more (2002-08-17)

New space telescope aims to seek out and record explosive gamma ray bursts.
A state of the art space telescope built by scientists at UCL will make its way to the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, USA on a mission to unravel the mysteries of the universes gamma rays. The telescope - called UVOT - will be one of three telescopes on a special NASA orbiting space... view more (2002-05-31)

Seeing the wood for the trees: research reveals the survival secrets of forest trees
Species extinction or `biodiversity loss` has accelerated at an alarming rate over the past century. Although much of the blame has been laid at the door of human activity, biologists are looking at the factors that influence how species-particularly similar species-co-exist, in their efforts to... view more (2002-05-30)

SCIENTISTS VITAL TO CONSERVATION IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION WARN LORDS
A House of Lords report launched today urges the UK Government to show renewed commitment to conservation when the Prime Minister leads the delegation to the World Summit in Johannesburg later this year. Baroness Walmsley, chairman of the inquiry, said: "The Government has committed itself to... view more (2002-05-15)

University of Ulster Researcher Discovers Crocs That Time Forgot
A University of Ulster researcher has discovered a new population of cave dwelling crocodiles, never before seen outside their Saharan habitat. PhD student Tara Shine discovered the cave dwelling crocodiles while living in the remote African country of Mauritania as part of a two and a half year... view more (2002-04-30)

Chemistry by the thimbleful
The trend toward miniaturization has also taken a hold in chemistry because in miniaturized reactors, the risk of explosions is nearly none and the reaction can be better controlled. At the Analytica trade fair scientists show how to improve chemical engineering and production. -------------- The... view more (2002-04-16)

`Link Rot` spoils Virtual Learning
Using the internet in classrooms and in virtual and distance learning programmes is being severely hampered by the decay of web links otherwise known as 'link rot'. Dr John Markwell (professor of biochemistry at the University of Nebraska) who has been tracking this problem with his colleague David... view more (2002-04-04)

Why conservationists should heed Pokémon
Could you tell a Pikachu from a Pidgeotto or a Jigglypuff? The average eight-year old can identify 80 per cent of all Pokémon characters – but is much less expert at identifying real wildlife species. A team of Cambridge University scientists has, found that children were much less... view more (2002-03-27)

Is the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy a debris of the Large Magellanic Cloud?
The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy is our nearest neighbor. Yet it has been discovered only recently, in 1994, being hidden by the stars and dust in our own Galaxy, the Milky Way. It is however possible today to better know this companion galaxy, thanks to variable stars, the RR Lyrae, in which Sgr-dw is... view more (2002-02-25)

History and timing of human impact on Lake Victoria, East Africa
Lake Victoria, the world's largest tropical lake, suffers from severe eutrophication and the probable extinction of up to half its 500+ species of endemic cichlid fishes. New sediment-core data show that increased algal production developed from the 1930s onwards, paralleling human population... view more (2002-02-12)

The earliest Australians
One of the really big challenges in anthropology is to date accurately the arrival of humans in the different continents. New results, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Quaternary Science, show that humans arrived in Australia a lot earlier than was previously thought.   view more (2002-01-22)

Grouse house at the click of a mouse
Ecologists at Aberdeen University have developed a new computer tool that could help save the capercaillie from extinction in Scotland. Speaking at the British Ecological Society’s Winter Meeting, to be held at the University of Warwick on 18–20 December 2001, Dr Keith Marshall will... view more (2001-12-10)

Are men in danger of extinction?
Despite having had most of the social determinants of health in their favour, men have higher mortality rates for all 15 leading causes of death and have a life expectancy about seven years shorter than women's. An editorial in this week's BMJ asks are men in danger of extinction? Men's reluctance... view more (2001-10-31)

Leverhulme Trust awards £1.2m for study of earliest Britons
The Leverhulme Trust has awarded The Natural History Museum and partners a grant of over one million pounds for a five-year study of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB). Scientists from The Natural History Museum, The British Museum, Royal Holloway and other institutes will work... view more (2001-09-17)

Experts probe deaths of flamingos
Tens of thousands of flamingos at Lake Bogoria in the Great Rift Valley are simply keeling over and dying, sending alarm bells ringing among environmentalists across the globe.   view more (2000-03-08)

German Neanderthals together
In 1856 a group of workmen entered a cave in the Neander Valley to clean out the rubbish. Some odd bones were found which researchers Fuhlrott and Schaaffhausen recognized as being from an unknown, very old human. More Neanderthal remains were found thereafter, but the species got a very bad press.... view more (1999-03-09)
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