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'University of Alberta'
Fish farms drive wild salmon populations toward extinction
— 13 Dec 2007 20:34 | BiologyA study appearing in the 14 December issue of the journal Science shows, for the first time, that parasitic sea lice infestations caused by salmon farms are driving nearby populations…
Major physics breakthrough in understanding supersolidity
— 6 Dec 2007 19:42 | PhysicsPhysicists at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, have made a major advance in the understanding of what appears to be a new state of matter…
Beetle dung helps forests recover from fire
— 4 Dec 2007 02:00 | BiologyArmed with a pair of tweezers and a handful of beetle droppings, University of Alberta forestry graduate Tyler Cobb has discovered why the bug-sized dung is so important to areas ravaged…
Polar bear researchers urge caution in hunting policy
— 26 Nov 2007 19:02 | BiologyNew research by the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, suggests that current wildlife management practices in Canada could make it harder for polar bears to find mates…
Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies
— 14 Aug 2007 22:20 | BiologyExpanding forests in the Canadian Rocky Mountains are slowly isolating groups of alpine butterflies from each other, which may lead to the extinction of the colourful insects in some…
Thousand-year-old Arctic ponds disappearing due to global warming
— 3 Jul 2007 02:36 | EnvironmentResearch has uncovered alarming evidence that high Arctic ponds, many which have been permanent bodies of water for thousands of years, are completely drying out during the polar summer.…
Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests
— 15 May 2007 01:30 | EnvironmentLooking at a rainforest it is easy to see that there are hundreds of different tropical plant species that inhabit the forest. Although the patterns of plant distributions in tropical…
Fossil discovery marks earliest record of limbloss in ancient lizard
— 22 Mar 2007 20:22 | Geology and palaeontologyA University of Alberta palaeontologist has helped discover the existence of a 95 million-year-old snakelike marine animal, a finding that provides not only the earliest example of…
Tundra disappears
— 7 Mar 2007 00:22 | EnvironmentForests of spruce trees and shrubs in parts of northern Canada are taking over what were once tundra landscapes - forcing out the species that lived there. This shift can happen at…