March 2022

More than 50 years ago, on the shore of a rocky tidal pool, American ecologist Robert Paine discovered that eliminating a single species from an ecosystem could dramatically alter its structure and function. He had discovered that starfish…

Macron, President of France. Photo: OECD/CC OECD Headquarters, Paris, France Photo: OECD/Andrew Wheeler Leïla Messaoudi, Secretary General of the Revolutionary Left (CWI, France) Anger at rising prices, record profits for multinationals…

Cooling tower Photo: piqsels.com Dave Carr, East London Socialist Party The Johnson government reinforces its commitment to developing nuclear energy with the announcement that it will take a 20% stake in the new 'Sizewell C'. The…

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This article was originally published here Incorporates Comp Biol. March 28, 2022: icac010. doi: 10.1093/icb/icac010. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Evolutionary transitions across abiotic gradients can occur among habitats at…

Picture by Greg Gwynne from Pixabay A surprising hindgut diversity among the microorganisms that inhabit the hindgut of thoroughbred horses has been described by researchers, including dozens of new or unnamed bacteria. The scientists…

The “big tankers” are making huge profits from the war in Ukraine. Photo: Paul Mattson Tom Baldwin, National Committee of the Socialist Party As the horror of the war in Ukraine dominates the headlines, the latest report by the United…

Career - March 22, 2022 5 questions to Manon Smulders on…

Smithsonian Conservation Research Brief:Restoration of bison results in greater bird diversity and greater use by deer in riparian areas of grasslandsTemperate grasslands and the species that depend on them are in dire straits. The…

Gas prices in the United States keep rising and Democrats in Washington have found a convenient scapegoat for the pain inflicted on American drivers - Big Oil.President Joe Biden oil companies say “should not inflate their profits” as crude…

Trade-offs between the benefit of colonizing new particles and the risk of being wiped out by predators allow diverse populations of marine microbes to exist together, shows a study published today in eLife. The findings help explain how a…

March 15, 2022 By the BES press office A new study has found that oil palm can be grown more sustainably on peatlands by re-wetting the land – conserving both biodiversity and livelihoods. Oil palms.…

A campaign tactic is resurfacing in the climate movement, with multiple self-help groups and individuals committing acts of disobedience by deflating SUV tires. The aim is to immediately highlight the vast…

Professor Bibiana Bilbao, a professor of environmental studies at Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela and a member of our center's advisory board, is working at the forefront of a new paradigm in fire science. She aggressively seeks to…

WF1 taxi drivers treated as second-class citizens by Wakefield Council sparked a strike and protest outside Wakefield Town Hall in West Yorkshire on March 2. Taxi union leader Yasar Ahmed told about 60 strikers that even their simple…

Dave Nellist, photo Paul Mattsson Editorial of the socialist, number 1170 The Birmingham Erdington by-election showed, with a pitiful turnout of just 27%, that the task of building a new vehicle for the political representation of the…

An independent Scotland would be better off staying out of the NATO military alliance, the Scottish Greens have said. The party - which will hold its spring conference on Friday - does not plan to change its defense policy despite the!-->…

Thursday, March 3 marks World Wildlife Day and we pay tribute by checking which animals are considered endangered species in Israel and assessing what we can do to protect them. “When it comes to invertebrates, it is difficult to determine…