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July 26, 2024
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July 26, 2024 — Using data from 6,645 camera traps across the United States, researchers mapped populations of 25 mammal species. They determined that climate, not human activity, was the primary factor in mammals ...
July 25, 2024 — Researchers have found New Zealand's endangered flightless birds are seeking refuge in the locations where six species of moa last lived before going ...
July 22, 2024 — Forests can reduce hunger in rural households while also capturing carbon and advancing sustainability goals for low- and middle-income countries, according to new ...
July 22, 2024 — Biologists who set out to better understand the effects of climate change on plant species in tropical mountain regions found that even small variations in temperature and moisture can have massive ...
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July 22, 2024 — Researchers have made an exciting discovery on the Hong Kong coast. They have identified two fiddler crab species: Tubuca dussumieri, previously ...
July 24, 2024 — Reforestation in low- and middle-income countries can remove up to 10 times more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at lower cost than previously estimated, making it a potentially more effective ...
July 24, 2024 — Using trees as a cost-effective tool against climate change is more complicated than simply planting large numbers of them, an international collaboration has ...
July 24, 2024 — Tree bark surfaces play an important role in removing methane gas from the ...
July 23, 2024 — Trees in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest are migrating in search of more favourable temperatures with species in mountain forests moving uphill to escape rising heat caused by climate ...
July 23, 2024 — Butterflies and moths collect so much static electricity whilst in flight, that pollen grains from flowers can be pulled by static electricity across ...
July 22, 2024 — Climate change will have a considerable influence on the biodiversity and productivity of meadows and pastures. However, according to the results of the large-scale climate and land use experiment ...
July 16, 2024 — Although there is a large body of research on pests evolving tolerances for the pesticides meant to destroy them, there have been considerably fewer ...
July 19, 2024 — Some species of fish can evolve their egg-laying habits in response to predators in the area in order to survive, according to new ...
July 18, 2024 — By harnessing the power of machine learning, researchers have constructed a framework for analyzing what factors most significantly contribute to a species' genetic ...
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July 23, 2024 — World leaders must take advantage of a pivotal window of opportunity for forging a much-needed joined-up approach to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, say scientists. Without this, work on ...
July 17, 2024 — The most threatened reef fishes are also the most overlooked by scientists and the general public. Scientists measured the level of human interest in 2,408 species of marine reef fish and found that ...
July 17, 2024 — When it comes to diatoms that live in the ocean, new research suggests that photosynthesis is not the only strategy for accumulating carbon. Instead, these single-celled plankton are also building ...
July 17, 2024 — The discovery of a hybrid population of poplar trees in western Wyoming has provided insight into how natural hybridization informs the evolution of many plant species, according to researchers. They ...
July 17, 2024 — New research has examined the fossil record going back 66 million years and tracked changes to mammalian ecosystems and species diversity on the North American ...
July 17, 2024 — Despite facing regional threats like deforestation and wildfires, the world's forests continue to be a powerful weapon in the fight against climate change. A new study reveals these vital ...
July 17, 2024 — Researchers have analysed data from 127 studies to reveal 'thresholds' for when logged rainforests lose the ability to sustain themselves. The results could widen the scope of which forests ...
July 16, 2024 — Researchers used machine learning to generate highly detailed maps of over 100 million individual trees from 24 sites across the U.S. These maps provide information about individual tree species and ...
July 15, 2024 — The evolution of resistance to diseases, from infectious illnesses to cancers, poses a formidable challenge. Despite the expectation that resistance-conferring mutations would dwindle in the absence ...
July 15, 2024 — Humans have been an important driver of vegetation change over thousands of years, and, in some places, had positive impacts on biodiversity, according to a new ...
July 15, 2024 — Oxygen is a fundamental requirement of life, and the loss of oxygen in water, referred to as aquatic deoxygenation, is a threat to life at all levels. In fact, researchers describe how ongoing ...
July 15, 2024 — Nitrogen fertilizers make it possible to feed the world's growing population, but they are also costly adn harm ecosystems. However, a few plants have evolved the ability to acquire their own ...
July 15, 2024 — Forest scientists studying tree regeneration have found that wildfire smoke comes with an unexpected benefit: It has a cooling capacity that can make life easier for vulnerable ...
July 12, 2024 — Tree-planting campaigns have been underway in the United States, especially in cities, as part of climate mitigation efforts given the many environmental benefits of urban forests. But a new study ...
July 12, 2024 — After sequencing the genomes of nearly 300 rabbits from Europe, South America, and Oceania, researchers found that all of them had a mix of feral and domestic DNA. They say this was not what they had ...
July 12, 2024 — Researchers have shed light on Earth's earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already ...
July 12, 2024 — Evolutionary biologists studied spoonworts to determine what influence genome duplication has on the adaptive potential of plants. The results show that polyploids -- species with more than two sets ...
July 11, 2024 — Forests have been embraced as a natural climate solution, due to their ability to soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow, locking it up in their trunks, branches, leaves, and roots. ...
July 11, 2024 — Cooperative hunting, resource sharing, and using the same signals to communicate the same information -- these are all examples of cultural sharing that have been observed between distinct animal ...
July 11, 2024 — Researchers have found that the key to a quick and cost-effective mapping of biodiversity has been right in front of our eyes all along, but at the same time invisible -- i.e., in the air that ...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
- The Most Endangered Fish Are the Least Studied
- Diatom Surprise Could Rewrite the Global Carbon Cycle
- Discovery of a Hybrid Lineage Offers Clues to How Trees Adapt to Climate Change
- Research Tracks 66 Million Years of Mammalian Diversity
- Forests Endure as Carbon Sink Despite Regional Pressures
- Logged Forests Can Still Have Ecological Value -- If Not Pushed Too Far
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Monday, July 15, 2024
- Unlocking the Mystery of Preexisting Drug Resistance: New Study Sheds Light on Cancer Evolution
- History Shows That Humans Are Good for Biodiversity... Sometimes
- Loss of Oxygen in Lakes and Oceans a Major Threat to Ecosystems, Society, and Planet
- Building a Roadmap to Bioengineer Plants That Produce Their Own Nitrogen Fertilizer
- Wildfire Smoke Has a Silver Lining: It Can Help Protect Vulnerable Tree Seedlings
Friday, July 12, 2024
- Study Examines Urban Forests Across the United States
- How Domestic Rabbits Become Feral in the Wild
- Insight Into One of Life's Earliest Ancestors Revealed in New Study
- How Plant Cold Specialists Can Adapt to the Environment
Thursday, July 11, 2024
- Forest Carbon Storage Has Declined Across Much of the Western U.S., Likely Due to Drought and Fire
- Introducing Co-Cultures: When Co-Habiting Animal Species Share Culture
- Mapping the World's Fungi from Air Samples
- Global Database Reveals Large Gaps in Our Knowledge of Four-Footed Animals
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
- Planted Mangroves' Ability to Store Carbon
- Mozambican Woodlands Could Store More Than Double the Carbon Previously Estimated
- Not So Simple: Mosses and Ferns Offer New Hope for Crop Protection
- Wolves' Return Has Had Only Small Impact on Deer Populations in NE Washington
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
- Study Examines Tree Adaptability to Climate Change
- First Local Extinction in the US Due to Sea Level Rise, Study Suggests
- How a Plant App Helps Identify the Consequences of Climate Change
Monday, July 8, 2024
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
- Retreating Glaciers: Fungi Enhance Carbon Storage in Young Arctic Soils
- Climate Change Drives Tree Species Towards Colder, Wetter Regions
Monday, July 1, 2024
- Ocean Acidification Turns Fish Off Coral Reefs
- AI-Powered Study Explores Under-Studied Female Evolution
- Researchers Identify Unique Survival Strategies Adopted by Fish in the World's Warmest Waters
- The Evidence Is Mounting: Humans Were Responsible for the Extinction of Large Mammals
- Choose Where to Plant Energy Crops Wisely to Minimise Loss of Biodiversity
- Sixty-Million-Year-Old Grape Seeds Reveal How the Death of the Dinosaurs May Have Paved the Way for Grapes to Spread
Friday, June 28, 2024
- Climate Change to Shift Tropical Rains Northward
- Ecologists Reconstruct the History of Biodiversity in the Indo-Australian Archipelago and Its Rise as a Hotspot
Thursday, June 27, 2024
- Projected Loss of Brown Macroalgae and Seagrasses With Global Environmental Change
- Ammonites' Fate Sealed by Meteor Strike That Wiped out Dinosaurs
- Invasive Ants Spread by Hitchhiking on Everyday Vehicles
- Why the Harsh Snowball Earth Kick-Started Our Earliest Multicellular Ancestors
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
- Ocean's Loss of Oxygen Caused Massive Jurassic Extinction: Could It Happen Again?
- Plankton Researchers Urge Their Colleagues to Mix It Up
- Frog 'saunas' A Lifeline for Endangered Frog Populations
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Monday, June 24, 2024
- Fuel Treatments Reduce Future Wildfire Severity
- New Tomato, Potato Family Tree Shows That Fruit Color and Size Evolved Together
Friday, June 21, 2024
Thursday, June 20, 2024
- Wild Chimpanzees Seek out Medicinal Plants to Treat Illness and Injuries
- Newly Discovered Dinosaur Boasts Big, Blade-Like Horns
- Climate Models Underestimate Carbon Cycling Through Plants
- Hurricane Changed 'rules of the Game' In Monkey Society
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
- Natural Hazards Threaten Over Three Thousand Species
- Restored Rat-Free Islands Could Support Hundreds of Thousands More Breeding Seabirds
Monday, June 17, 2024
- 'Lost' Birds List Will Aid in Protecting Species
- Research Into Structures of Ape Hearts Provide Insight Into Human Evolution
Friday, June 14, 2024
- Early Homo Sapiens Facilitated the Establishment of the Bonelli's Eagle in the Mediterranean 50,000 Years Ago
- Sharks Have Depleted Functional Diversity Compared to the Last 66 Million Years
- Scientists Unravel Drivers of the Global Zinc Cycle in Our Oceans, With Implications for a Changing Climate
Thursday, June 13, 2024
- A Conservation Market Could Incentivize Global Ocean Protection
- Paleontology: New Fossil Fish Genus Discovered
- Marine Heatwaves Devastate Red Gorgonians in the Medes Islands
- Lazy Predator: A New Species of Mountain Pitviper from China
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
- Cocaine Trafficking Threatens Critical Bird Habitats
- Humans Are the Elephant in the Room Where Conservation Is Debated
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Monday, June 10, 2024
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
- A Novel Approach to Tracking Conservation Reveals More Areas May Be Conserved Than Currently Accounted for
- Exploring Three Frontiers in Marine Biomass and Blue Carbon Capture
- Rocky Shores of Pacific Northwest Show Low Resilience to Changes in Climate
- Human Activity Contributed to Woolly Rhinoceros' Extinction
Monday, June 3, 2024
- Key Nutrients Help Plants Beat the Heat
- Mapping the Seafloor Sediment Superhighway
- Urgent Need for Action Now for Increasing Threat from Invasive Alien Species
- Captivating Blue-Colored Ant Discovered in India's Remote Siang Valley
- Food Drove the Evolution of Giraffes' Long Neck
- How Sharks Survived a Major Spike in Earth's Temperature
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Thursday, May 30, 2024
- Trout in Mine-Polluted Rivers Are Genetically 'isolated'
- New Coral Disease Forecasting System
- The Missing Puzzle Piece: A Striking New Snake Species from the Arabian Peninsula
- Tracing the Evolution of Ferns' Surprisingly Sweet Defense Strategy
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
- What Makes Some Plant Groups So Successful?
- Orchids Support Seedlings Through 'parental Nurture' Via Shared Underground Fungal Networks
- Aerosol Pollution, Greenhouse Gases Must Be Reduced Simultaneously to Keep Forest Fires in Check
- Fatal Attraction: When Endangered Species Try to Mate With Domestic Relatives, Both Wildlife and People Lose
- Some Species May Tolerate Climate Change Better Than Expected
- Slugs and Snails Love the City, Unlike Other Animals
- Wild Megalopolis: Study Shows Unexpected Pockets of Biodiversity Pepper Los Angeles
- Marine Protected Areas Don't Line Up With Core Habitats of Rare Migratory Fish, Finds New Research
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
- Smarter Foragers Do Not Forage Smarter
- Harnessing Green Energy from Plants Depends on Their Circadian Rhythms
- Global Activity of Seafloor Biodiversity Mapped
- Transgenic Expression of Rubisco Factors Increases Photosynthesis and Chilling Tolerance in Maize