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December 24, 2024
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Dec. 19, 2024 — California's native wildflowers are being smothered by layers of dead, invasive grasses. A new study shows that simply raking these layers can boost biodiversity and reduce fire ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — The capacity of bacteria to spread disease across the Plant Kingdom may be much more widespread than previously suspected, according to new ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — A new study examines the correlation between fish yield and live coral habitats. Researchers analyzed the yields of nine fisheries dependent on Australia's Great Barrier Reef from 2016 to 2020. Results show that substantial losses could occur if the ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — Scientists have successfully identified a previously unknown species to Southern California from fossilized seeds, revealing a drought-fueled dance between two species of juniper with lessons for the ...
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Dec. 19, 2024 — Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 billion years ago. The ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Andean bears carefully select the best foraging locations and plants to maximize nutrition and avoid livestock, according to a new ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — Scientists are exploring a new model for carbon capture in low-oxygen aquatic environments, such as fisheries, that will help address rising global temperatures and could potentially be ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — When and where to plant tree seedlings to restore forests after wildfires has a lot to do with shrubs, finds a new ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — Despite the population being almost four times larger than it was in 1982, a new study published in the journal Ecology suggests the northern muriqui ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — On February 2, 1887, residents of Punxsutawney Pennsylvania consulted a large rodent regarding the arrival of spring, marking the first official ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — New research shows that many wildlife species in the U.S., like the endangered giant kangaroo rat, will face much more frequent and severe droughts ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — Scientists have today announced the discovery of a species of lipstick vine completely new to science, from the depths of the Philippine rainforest. ...
Dec. 13, 2024 — A new database of African hippo populations has revealed huge gaps in our knowledge of where the megaherbivores live and thrive, with populations fragmented and reliant on protected ...
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Dec. 13, 2024 — A new AI image tool could aid the development of algorithms to analyse wildlife images to help improve understanding of how species around the world are responding to climate change, a study ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — A new analysis reveals that overfishing has caused populations of chondrichthyan fishes -- sharks, rays, and chimaeras -- to decline by more than 50 per cent since 1970. To determine the ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — In a new study, scientists describe how different traits used to choose mates in barn swallow populations are driving the bird to diverge, which could eventually lead to the formation of new ...
Dec. 11, 2024 — A new study estimates that more than 9000 insects and other native invertebrates have become extinct in Australia since European arrival in 1788 and between 1-3 additional species become extinct ...
Dec. 11, 2024 — Leading ecologists have devised a new framework to classify how biodiversity credit operators define what a unit of nature is. The new analysis demonstrates the challenges involved with devising a ...
Dec. 11, 2024 — A groundbreaking study has shed light on how lizards and snakes -- the most diverse group of land vertebrates with nearly 12,000 species -- have evolved remarkably varied jaw shapes, driving their ...
Dec. 10, 2024 — The genome of a once-endangered songbird shows extensive signs of inbreeding, according to a new study. Because inbreeding can negatively impact survival and reproduction, the results could guide ...
Dec. 10, 2024 — While trees can cool some cities significantly during the day, new research shows that tree canopies can also trap heat and raise temperatures at night. The study aims to help urban planners choose ...
Dec. 10, 2024 — Fast-growing and small-seeded tree species are dominating Brazilian forests in regions with high levels of deforestation and degradation, a new study shows. This has potential implications for the ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — New research has revealed less than a quarter of the remaining tropical rainforests around the globe can safeguard thousands of threatened species from ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — Freshwater fish populations that dwell nearer the poles are outperforming their equatorial counterparts, researchers have ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — Characterized by darkness and intense pressure, the ocean's hadal zone seems uninhabitable, yet dozens of unique organisms call it home. Each species discovered there adds a crucial piece to the ...
Dec. 6, 2024 — To mitigate climate change, human-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions must be reduced as quickly and drastically as possible. Additionally, some of the CO2 already emitted needs to be safely removed ...
Dec. 6, 2024 — Non-native species introduced by humans are among the main causes of global species decline -- they were partly responsible for 60 percent of the species that have become extinct worldwide in recent ...
Autonomous Imaging Robot Plays a Crucial Role in Assessing Embryos' Response to Environmental Change
Dec. 6, 2024 — The opensource LabEmbryoCam uses 3D-printed components to form a robotic microscope and is the result of over a decade of research at the University of Plymouth. Its creators say the instrument can ...
Dec. 5, 2024 — When a forest is lost to development, some effects are obvious. Stumps and mud puddles across the landscape, a plowed field or houses a year after that. But deforestation isn't just a loss of ...
Dec. 5, 2024 — Spotted lanternflies -- invasive insects that first landed in the United States a decade ago -- are emerging earlier and staying active later each year, according to an analysis of citizen-science ...
Dec. 4, 2024 — The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines when ...
Dec. 4, 2024 — Coconut palms are king throughout the tropics, serving as the foundation for human lives and cultures across the Pacific Ocean for centuries. However, 200 years of planting by colonial interests ...
Dec. 4, 2024 — A research team has investigated the importance of limestone quarries for wild bee conservation. Diverse landscapes with good connectivity between quarries and calcareous grasslands proved to be ...
Friday, December 13, 2024
Thursday, December 12, 2024
- Overfishing Has Halved Shark and Ray Populations Since 1970
- Barn Swallow Research Offers Real-Time Insight on How New Species Form
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
- Australia's Extinction Tally Is Worse Than We Thought
- What Is a Unit of Nature? New Framework Shows the Challenges Involved With Establishing a Biodiversity Credit Market
- New Research Unlocks Jaw-Dropping Evolution of Lizards and Snakes
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
- Once-Endangered Kirtland's Warblers Show Extensive Signs of Inbreeding in Genome
- Wrong Trees in the Wrong Place Can Make Cities Hotter at Night, Study Reveals
- Human Disruption Is Driving 'winner' And 'loser' Tree Species Shifts Across Brazilian Forests
Monday, December 9, 2024
- Biodiversity at Risk in Most Rainforests
- Climate Change Impacting Freshwater Fish Species
- New Ocean Predator Discovered in the Atacama Trench
Friday, December 6, 2024
- How Do Marine Food Webs Respond to Increasing Alkalinity?
- Conservation Paradox: Invasive Species Are Often Threatened in Their Native Range
- Autonomous Imaging Robot Plays a Crucial Role in Assessing Embryos' Response to Environmental Change
Thursday, December 5, 2024
- Deforestation Reduces Malaria Bed Nets' Effectiveness
- Spotted Lanternflies in the US Are Living Longer--and Cities May Be Helping Them Spread
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
- The Amazon Rainforest as a Cloud Machine: How Thunderstorms and Plant Transpiration Produce Condensation Nuclei
- After Decades of Plantation Agriculture, Coconut Palms Dominate Over Half of Pacific Atoll Forests
- Lifesaver for Wild Bees: The Importance of Quarries
- Insects Wearing Two Hats Solve Botanical Mystery
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
- Ocean Density Identified as a Key Driver of Carbon Capture by Marine Plankton
- Ecosystems: New Study Questions Common Assumption About Biodiversity
- Island Biodiversity Rides on the Wings of Birds
Monday, December 2, 2024
- Climate Change Could Bring More Severe Bacterial Infections, Including in Corals
- Deep-Sea Marvels: How Anglerfish Defy Evolutionary Expectations
- In 'world's Bonobo Stronghold' Rangers and Pristine Forest Sustain a Stable Population
- Warming Temperatures May Shrink Wetland Carbon Sinks
Friday, November 29, 2024
- Warming Temperatures Impact Immune Performance of Wild Monkeys
- Satellite Evidence Bolsters Case That Climate Change Caused Mass Elephant Die-Off
- Fossil Dung Reveals Clues to Dinosaur Success Story
Thursday, November 28, 2024
- Coral Adaptation Unlikely to Keep Pace With Global Warming
- New Research Reveals Bird 'divorce Rates' Linked to Rainfall
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
- Discovering the Traits of Extinct Birds
- Shells, Teeth and Bones of 'weird and Wonderful Organisms' Provide Historical Environmental Clues
- Brains Grew Faster as Humans Evolved
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Monday, November 25, 2024
- How Climate Change Threatens This Iconic Florida Bird
- Crayfish Map Gives Conservation a Helping Claw
Friday, November 22, 2024
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
- Manatees Might Be Relatively Recent Arrivals to Florida
- Mixed Forests Reduce the Risk of Forest Damage in a Warmer Climate
- Sweet Tooth Ethiopian Wolves Seen Feeding on Nectar
- Diverse Diets of Civets in Borneo Rainforest Allow Them to Live in Same Geographical Area
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
- Vultures and Artificial Intelligence(s) as Death Detectors: High-Tech Approach for Wildlife Research and Conservation
- Climate Change Threatens Rare Temperate Rainforests
Monday, November 18, 2024
- Some Trees Can Acclimate to Changing Temperatures
- New Model Can Help Understand Coexistence in Nature
- Tree Islands Restore Nature in Oil Palm Plantations
Friday, November 15, 2024
- Biodiversity in the City: Designing Urban Spaces for Humans and Animals
- Rainforest Protection Reduces the Number of Respiratory Diseases
- One or Many? Exploring the Population Groups of the Largest Animal on Earth
Thursday, November 14, 2024
- Diverse and Diverging Demands on Forests in Germany
- New Study Reveals Half a Century of Change on Britain's Iconic Limestone Pavements
- Frog Populations Once Decimated by Disease Mount a Major Comeback
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
- Climate Change Threatens Key Ocean Plankton Groups
- New Species Discovered With Refined DNA Technology
- Robot Identifies Plants by 'touching' Their Leaves
- Bird Brain from the Age of Dinosaurs Reveals Roots of Avian Intelligence
- Pioneering Research Shows Sea Life Will Struggle to Survive Future Global Warming
- More Evidence That Europe's Ancient Landscapes Were Open Woodlands: Oak, Hazel and Yew Were Abundant
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
- Facing the Wind: How Trees Behave Across Various Forest Settings and Weather Events
- More Than One Third of Vietnam's Mammal Species Are at Risk of Extinction, Study Finds
- In Greening Arctic, Caribou and Muskoxen Play Key Role
Monday, November 11, 2024
- A New Wrinkle in Turtles: Their Genomes Fold in a Unique Way, Researchers Find
- The Shellowship of the Ring: Two New Snail Species Named After Tolkien Characters
Friday, November 8, 2024
- Nanoparticle Bursts Over the Amazon Rainforest
- Power of Aesthetic Species on Social Media Boosts Wildlife Conservation Efforts, Say Experts
Thursday, November 7, 2024
- Defense or Growth -- How Plants Allocate Resources
- Scientists Find Space-for-Time Substitutions Exaggerate Urban Bird--Habitat Ecological Relationships
- Planting Trees in the Arctic Could Make Global Warming Worse, Not Better, Say Scientists
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024
Friday, November 1, 2024
- Evolutionary Paths Vastly Differ for Birds, Bats
- More Resources Needed to Protect Birds in Germany
- Indigenous Cultural Burning Has Protected Australia's Landscape for Millennia, Study Finds
- The Reasons Flowers Wilt Could Explain How Plants Spend (and Save) Their Energy
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
- New Genetic Web Tool to Help Restore Climate-Resilient Marine Ecosystems
- Study Shows Natural Regrowth of Tropical Forests Has Immense Potential to Address Environmental Concerns
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Monday, October 28, 2024
- Invasive Plants Drive Homogenization of Soil Microbial Communities Across U.S.
- Giant Clam Declared Critically Endangered After the Latest Assessment
- Are We Missing the Mark on Biodiversity? 90% of Countries Ignore Key Behavior Changes
- Why Langurs Drink Salt Water
- Using Weather Radar to Track Australia's Migrating Birds
Friday, October 25, 2024
- Move Along, Moose: Study Reveals the 'most Canadian' Animals
- A Natural Climate Change Laboratory in Japan Reveals the Adaptation Dynamics of Fishers
Thursday, October 24, 2024
- Human Actions Likely Cause Insect Color Change
- Plant Diversity Enhances Soil Carbon Retention
- Crustacean With Panda-Like Coloring Confirmed to Be a New Species
- Marri Trees a Lifeline for Many Native Bee Species in Biodiversity Hotspot
- New Mapping Techniques Empower Bird Conservation in Colombia
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024
- Microbes Drove Methane Growth Between 2020 and 2022, Not Fossil Fuels
- Plant CO2 Uptake Rises by Nearly One Third in New Global Estimates
- Turtle Genome Provides New Clues on the Evolution of Vertebrates