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November 20, 2024
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Nov. 20, 2024 — Forests with few tree species pose considerably higher risk of being damaged and especially vulnerable is the introduced lodgepole ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — Typically, closely related animal species have difficulty coexisting because they are competing for similar resources. Despite eating the same figs, binturong, small-toothed palm, masked palm, and ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — Up to two thirds of the world's temperate rainforests could fall victim to climate change by the year 2100 according to a new ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — In order to use remote locations to record and assess the behavior of wildlife and environmental conditions, the GAIA Initiative developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that reliably and ...
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Nov. 18, 2024 — Different species of seabirds can coexist on small, isolated islands despite eating the same kind of fish. A researcher has been involved in developing a mathematical model that can be used to better ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Southeast Asia's tropical forests are renowned for their biodiversity, but at the same time face significant threats from the expansion of oil palm plantations. With global demand for palm oil ...
Nov. 15, 2024 — Animals and plants also live and thrive on public squares. This creates opportunities for greater biodiversity and well-being for the human population. Researchers have studied at 103 locations in ...
Nov. 15, 2024 — Rainforest protection is not only good for biodiversity and the climate -- it also noticeably improves the health of humans who live in the corresponding regions. Researchers show that measures to ...
Nov. 15, 2024 — Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...
Nov. 14, 2024 — Forests provide biodiversity, ecosystem functions, income and much more. How can these diverse and seemingly diverging demands be met? An international research team addressed this question by ...
Nov. 14, 2024 — Thanks to the consistent and focused efforts of researchers and conservationists to save, then reintroduce, mountain yellow-legged frogs to lakes in Yosemite National Park, their populations are ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — Planktonic foraminifera are tiny marine organisms, which are essential to the ocean's carbon cycle. A recent study reveals that these populations are shrinking at an alarming rate due to ocean ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — Sometimes plants are so similar to each other that the methods developed by 18th century scientist Carl Linnaeus for identifying species are not enough. Completely new species of daisies have been ...
Nov. 14, 2024 — Fifty years of change on iconic limestone pavements has revealed mixed fortunes for one of the most distinctive landscapes in the UK. The findings, ...
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Nov. 13, 2024 — Researchers have developed a robot that identifies different plant species at various stages of growth by 'touching' their leaves with an electrode. The robot can measure properties such as ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — A new study highlights how some marine life could face extinction over the next century, if human-induced global warming ...
More Evidence That Europe's Ancient Landscapes Were Open Woodlands: Oak, Hazel and Yew Were Abundant
Nov. 13, 2024 — A new study finds that the disturbance-demanding plant species oak, hazel and yew were abundant in Europe's forests before modern humans arrived, strengthening the argument that ancient ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — A recent study on Cryptomeria japonica plots shows that trees dissipate wind energy by switching between two swaying behaviors at specific wind speeds, offering insights that may help in improved ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — A recent study highlights that over one-third of Vietnam's 329 mammal species are threatened with ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — A new study highlights the importance of caribou and muskoxen to the greening Arctic tundra, linking grazing with plant phenology and abundance in the Arctic ...
Nov. 11, 2024 — A study described the three-dimensional architecture of turtle genomes, which fold in a configuration unlike any other animal observed so ...
Nov. 11, 2024 — Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from The Lord of the ...
Nov. 8, 2024 — Atmospheric aerosol particles are essential for the formation of clouds and precipitation, thereby influencing the Earth's energy budget, water cycle, and climate. However, the origin of aerosol ...
Nov. 8, 2024 — Facebook and Instagram can boost wildlife conservation efforts through public awareness and engagement, according to a new ...
Nov. 7, 2024 — The more a plant species invests in defense, the less potential it has for growth, according to a study. Research made possible by open science provides new insights into plant adaptation and ...
Scientists Find Space-for-Time Substitutions Exaggerate Urban Bird--Habitat Ecological Relationships
Nov. 7, 2024 — A common way ecologists predict population counts may be an unreliable way of forecasting future bird counts in urban areas, meaning scientists may be overestimating and underestimating the losses of ...
Nov. 7, 2024 — Tree planting has been widely touted as a cost-effective way of reducing global warming, due to trees' ability to store large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere. But, an international ...
Nov. 6, 2024 — Research sheds light on how coyotes, North America's most successful predators, are responding to various environmental pressures, including human development, hunting and competition with ...
Nov. 4, 2024 — Scientists and environmental activists have consistently called for drastic reductions in meat production as a way to reduce emissions and, in doing so, combat climate change. However, a new analysis ...
Nov. 1, 2024 — New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as ...
Nov. 1, 2024 — Researchers developed citizen science platforms as a new data source to evaluate the effectiveness of the 742 protected areas for birds across Germany. This research shows that although these areas ...
Nov. 1, 2024 — Ancient cultural burning practices carried out by Indigenous Australians limited fuel availability and prevented high intensity fires in southeastern Australia for thousands of years, according to ...
Nov. 1, 2024 — Wilting flowers might not signal poor flower or plant health, but rather the effects of a sophisticated resource management strategy in plants, millions of years in the ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
- 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
Friday, October 18, 2024
- Loss of 'nitrogen Fixers' Threatens Biodiversity, Ecosystems
- Smaller, More Specific Academic Journals Have More Sway Over Policy
- Better Ocean Connectivity Boosts Reef Fish Populations
Thursday, October 17, 2024
- Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Forest Fires Increase by 60 Percent
- Environmental DNA and Epidemics in Wood Frogs
- New Discovery Reveals How Diatoms Capture Carbon Dioxide So Effectively
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
- Grasslands Live in the Climate Change Fast Lane
- Nitrogen Pollution and Rising Carbon Dioxide: A Joint Threat to Grassland Biodiversity?
- One in Three Plants Call Islands Home: Many at Risk
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
- Seven New Frog Species Discovered in Madagascar: Sounds Like Something from Star Trek
- New Temperatures in Two Thirds of Key Tropical Forest
- Modern Mass Extinction in an Ecuadorean Cloud Forest Found to Be a Mirage
- Bonobos May Be More Vulnerable Than Previously Thought, Suggests Genetics Study
- Arthropods Dominate Plant Litter Decomposition in Drylands
- Simulated Mission to Mars: Survey of Lichen Species
Monday, October 14, 2024
Thursday, October 10, 2024
- Red Milkweed Beetle Genome Offers Insight Into Plant-Insect Interactions
- Declines in Plant Resilience Threaten Carbon Storage in the Arctic
- How Playing Songs to Darwin's Finches Helped Biologists Confirm Link Between Environment and the Emergence of New Species
- Early Human Species Benefited from Food Diversity in Steep Mountainous Terrain
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
- Newly Discovered Late Cretaceous Birds May Have Carried Heavy Prey Like Extant Raptors
- Researchers Discover How Plants Produce a Novel Anti-Stress Molecule
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Monday, October 7, 2024
- Plenty More Fish in the Sea? Environmental Protections Account for Around 10 Percent of Fish Stocks on Coral Reefs
- Low Stream Diatom Biodiversity Potentially Decreasing Stream Oxygen Production in Remote Islands
- Whale Shark Shipping Collisions May Increase as Oceans Warm
- Antarctic 'greening' At Dramatic Rate
Friday, October 4, 2024
Thursday, October 3, 2024
- The True Global Impact of Species-Loss Caused by Humans Is Far Greater Than Expected
- Decades-Long Research Reveals New Understanding of How Climate Change May Impact Caches of Arctic Soil Carbon
- New Findings Supply Corrective to Evolutionary Hypothesis
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Monday, September 30, 2024
- Coral Reef Destruction a Threat to Human Rights
- Megadiverse Flowering Plant Family on Isolated Islands
Friday, September 27, 2024
- Global Warming Leads to Higher Nitrogen Requirements: New Wheat Varieties Can Contribute to Food Security
- Return of the Elephants Seals: From a Few to Thousands
- Forest Loss Forces Langur Species to Interbreed
- Discovery of 3,775-Year-Old Preserved Log Supports 'wood Vaulting' As a Climate Solution
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- Ancient Reef-Builders Dodged Extinction -- At Least Temporarily
- Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of the Grape Family
- These Tadpoles Have Discovered a Unique Way of Not Contaminating Their Water Supply: Not Pooping
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Monday, September 23, 2024
- How Cranes Navigate Their Complex World
- Extreme Polar Light Environment of the North and South Poles Sustains Biodiversity
- Transforming Agriculture from Carbon Source to Sink
- Leading Scientists Redefine 'sustainability' To Save the Ocean and Feed a Hungry and Warming Planet
- How Remarkable Diversity in Heat Tolerance Can Help Protect Coral Reefs
Thursday, September 19, 2024
- Are Cows Pickier Than Goats?
- A New Forecasting Model Based on Gene Activity Predicts When Japan's Cherry Buds Awake from Dormancy
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
- Rugged Falklands Landscape Was Once a Lush Rainforest
- Explaining Dramatic Planet-Wide Changes After World's Last 'Snowball Earth' Event
- Even Marine Animals in Untouched Habitats Are at Risk from Human Impacts
- If You Build It, Will They Come? Wildlife Corridors Need Smarter Design
- Sea Surface Temperature Record in the Southwestern Pacific: Coral Colony from Fiji Reveals Warmest Temperatures in Over 600 Years
- Another New Wasp Species Discovered
- Scientists Quantify Energetic Costs of the Migratory Lifestyle in a Free Flying Songbird
- Scientists Urge New Conservation Approach to Save Vulnerable Species from Climate Change Impacts