Tag: Ecology/Environment

Credit: Marcelo H. Cassini, PhD In most animals, females are larger than males, but in most mammals, males are larger ...

Four decades of research provide some answersCredit: Phil Stouffer The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), located near Manaus, ...

Credit: Christopher J. Malyniuk Chemotherapeutic drugs, also known as antineoplastic agents, that are prescribed to treat a range of cancer ...

The same processes that threaten wildlife increase our risk of spilloverCredit: Christine K. Johnson, UC Davis As COVID-19 spreads across ...

Credit: Laura Bloomfield Viruses that jump from animals to people, like the one responsible for COVID-19, will likely become more ...

Credit: F. Christopher Peritore-Galve Bacterial canker of tomato is a disease that leads to wilt, cankers, and eventually death. The ...

Study provides crucial step to assess climate change impacts on imperiled turtle speciesCredit: Dana Ralph Unlike humans, sea turtles and ...

Credit: Marine Conservation Society Beaches in or near England's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have the same levels of litter as ...

Credit: Cesar Valencia Texas A&M University scientists found that a surprising number of fungi naturally associated with cultivated cotton were ...

Stream insects and the bankside spiders that eat them carry potentially toxic selenium runoff from water to landCredit: Photo by ...

Captive apes' microbiomes more similar to some humans' than to wild apes'Credit: GOUALOUGO TRIANGLE APE PROJECT Apes in U.S. zoos ...

As the human race continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have found that the planet's insects are also facing ...

Credit: Rod Waddington/Flickr UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The risk of transmitting the virus PPRV, which produces a highly infectious and ...

Credit: Prof. Franck Courchamp Since its accidental introduction in 2003 in France, the yellow-legged Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax) is ...