Tag: Biodiversity

May 20, 2021

New tools allow planetarium users to teach beyond the starsCredit: Matt Crow/Cleveland Museum of Natural History FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (MAY ...

Recruiting participants to the first European Red list of insect taxonomists

May 20, 2021

Contributors will enable the EU to take action to plug in the essential scientific knowledge to address insect declinesCredit: Royal ...

Half of Guadeloupe’s snakes and lizards went extinct after European colonization

Researchers use fossil data to reveal the primary drivers and extent of colonial era extinctionsCredit: Photo by Omkar Vinchu from ...

White shark population is small but healthy off the coast of Central California

Credit: Scot Anderson NEWPORT, Ore. - The population of white sharks that call the Central California coast their primary home ...

Palm oil plantations change the social behavior of macaques

Researchers spent months observing groups of southern pig-tailed macaquesCredit: Photo: Anna Holzner Due to the extensive clearing of their habitat, ...

Birds dealing with change — Mapping migration routes can lead to conservation areas

Credit: Photo: Ginny Chan Tracking migratory birds that carry tiny satellite transmitters in featherlight 'backpacks', can teach us a lot ...

World met target for protected area coverage on land, but quality must improve

UNEP/IUCN Protected Planet Report: over 22 million km2 of land, 28 million km2 of ocean protected or conserved since 2010; ...

New model for infectious disease could better predict future pandemics

May 18, 2021

Potential benefits to health across species, communities and environments are enormousCredit: James Hassell/Smithsonian In the midst of a devastating global ...

How to become ‘ant-i-social’

May 18, 2021

Study shows erosion of ant genome tied to loss of functional, behavioral and social traits in 3 inquiline speciesCredit: Martin ...

Linguistic and biological diversity linked

Credit: Larry Gorenflo, Penn State Cultural diversity -- indicated by linguistic diversity -- and biodiversity are linked, and their connection ...

Indigenous co-management essential for protecting, restoring Bears Ears region

Credit: Pavlik et al. (2021) PNAS Indigenous people have lived in the Bears Ears region of southeastern Utah for millennia. ...

Slow research to understand fast change

Forty years of experiments, observation, modeling and theory may be just what's needed to see where the world is headedCredit: ...

Bird data from Ethiopia fills in baseline data gaps

Credit: Ça?an ?ekercio?lu/University of Utah One of the projected effects of a warming climate for species living on mountain slopes ...

Two biodiversity refugia identified in the Eastern Bering Sea