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Predators as climate helpers

By Janet Raloff / February 18, 2013

This freshwater stickleback eats the tiny animals in stream water that graze on plants and algae. This predation allows those plants and algae to collect and store carbon, rather than letting it escape into the atmosphere. Credit: Nicole Bedford, UBC

In lakes and streams, fish and insects can help protect aquatic plants that gobble up greenhouse gas

Posted in Earth & Sky, Environment & Pollution, Weather & Climate | Tagged algae, bromeliad, carbon dioxide, climate, damselfly, ecology, ecosystem, food chain, food web, getinvolved, global warming, grazers, greenhouse gases, James Estes, John Richardson, phytoplankton, ponds, predators, primary production, Santa Cruz, stickleback, stonefly, streams, topstories, Trisha Atwood, trophic levels, University of British Columbia, University of California, zooplankton

Life beneath the ‘berg

By Stephen Ornes / June 1, 2011

Icebergs support thriving communities of living organisms above and below the water’s surface.

Scientists find Antarctic icebergs play a new and bigger role in the climate cycle

Posted in Environment & Pollution, Uncategorized | Tagged climate change, food chain, Fossil fuels, getinvolved, open ocean

The Wolf and the Cow

By Emily Sohn / January 18, 2005

Can livestock and predators share the same land?

Posted in Environment & Pollution | Tagged ecology, endangered species, food chain

A Vulture’s Hidden Enemy

By Sorcha McDonagh / February 2, 2004

Vultures may be getting a deadly dose of medicine from the carcasses they feed upon.

Posted in Environment & Pollution | Tagged Biological magnification, ecology, food chain