Microscope allows gentle, continuous imaging of light-sensitive corals
Credit: Loretta Roberson WOODS HOLE, Mass. - Corals are "part animal, part plant, and part rock - and difficult to ...
Tag: Biodiversity
Research reveals fishing pressures affect tropical and temperate reefs differentl
Credit: Elizabeth Madin, University of Hawai'i In a study published recently in Ecology and Evolution, an international team of researchers ...
Researchers look for answers as to why western bumblebees are declining
Credit: Christy Bell A University of Wyoming researcher and her Ph.D. student have spent the last three years studying the ...
New extinct family of giant wombat relatives discovered in Australian desert
Credit: Picture: Peter Schouten The unique remains of a prehistoric, giant wombat-like marsupial - Mukupirna nambensis - that was unearthed ...
Tiny Japanese dinosaur eggs help unscramble Cretaceous ecosystem
University of Tsukuba research reveals a nest of exceptionally small non-avian theropod egg fossils in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, providing a ...
Fancy Aussie bees flew in from Asia
Ecology experts connect species to Asia, AntarcticaCredit: James Dorey, Flinders University Ancestors of a distinctive pollinating bee found across Australia ...
Papers concludes that incentives to afforestation can be harmful to the environment
Credit: Cristian EcheverrÃa "Through a counterfactual analysis, we showed that between 1986 and 2011 the incentives to afforestation in Chile ...
Economic alien plants more likely to go wild
Credit: Mark van Kleunen Humans have cultivated plants outside their native ranges for thousands of years. But as the world ...
Four new species of giant single-celled organisms discovered on Pacific seafloor
Credit: Jennifer Durden and Craig Smith, DeepCCZ Project. Two new genera and four new species of giant, single-celled xenophyophores (protozoans ...
Inspiring innovative solutions to protect the planet
26 teams from across the world are developing solutions to make artisanal mining more responsibleCredit: Amy Richards / Guy Loftus ...
Airborne mapping sheds light on climate sensitivity of California redwoods
Credit: Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science. Throughout California, the effects of climate change are ...
Agricultural conservation schemes not enough to protect Britain’s rarest butterflies
Credit: Katie Threadgill Conservation management around the margins of agriculture fail to protect butterfly species at greatest risk from the ...
Get your hands dirty for health
Call to restore urban biodiversity, post-pandemicCredit: Flinders University Billions of people using the Earth's resources and changing or destroying ecosystems ...
Are protected areas effective at maintaining large carnivore populations?
Credit: Daniel Burgas-Riera A recent study, led by the University of Helsinki, used a novel combination of statistical methods and ...
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