Environmental studies

  • Intro:Have you ever been immersed in nature and just as you are realizing how beautiful the world is, your appreciation is ruined when you notice garbage? Try and think of a time, I know I have many memories of this

  • A new study by Siviter et al ¹ is one of its first to represent data showing the natural variation in environmental factors during embryonic development, and how it may impact upon the development of behavioural traits during the ontogeny

  • The mean oxygen consumption rate levels were collected for 83 wild-caught crayfish, Orconectes propinquus, that were acclimated to either high (20 to 25˚C) or low (3 to 5˚C) temperatures. The crayfish acclimated to higher temperatures, had a mean oxygen consumption

  • Food security, defined by the FAO, is “when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.” In order

  • Transpiration is the process in which water moves through plants and evaporates into the environment. The water from the soil enters through the root hairs and the water passes into the xylem and travels up the xylem vessels and into