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Among the food-insecure households, more families reported low readiness to provide opportunities for their children to be active outside of the school day.

When the researchers simulated land use and water use changes in three urban areas in the Willamette Valley over the next 70 years their model predicted only modest growth in water use despite large projected population increases.

The findings could offer guidance for cattle ranchers who want to improve the efficiency of their herds and assure the public they are interested in the welfare of the cows.

The bears are more interested in chowing down on early-arriving red elderberries. The likely result of this “prey switch,” the researchers conclude, is a disrupted ecosystem on Alaska’s Kodiak Island.

The results of a pilot study, published in the Journal of Extension, are borne out of a unique school-based approach to obesity prevention in six rural school districts.

Nearly half of the marine bird species that spend their summers in the Prince William Sound experienced “biologically significant” decreases in their abundance between 1989 and 2012.

They found that roads in these watersheds were contributing only minimal levels of silt to the streams—not enough to be “biologically significant” for aquatic life.

It is the first study to integrate behavioral and genetic data to understand the molecular underpinnings of changes that occurred to the social behavior of dogs during domestication.