Tag: Ecology/Environment

Credit: Virginia Tech In 2006, more than 400 children under the age of 5 died during an outbreak of diarrheal ...

The growing pains of orphan chimpanzees

Mothers may be shaping pre-adult growth and offspring muscle mass even without direct provisioningCredit: Liran Samuni The prolonged periods of ...

Abandoning pastures reduces the biodiversity of mountain streams

A study of 15 South Tyrolean waterways shows that the presence of extensive pastures increases biodiversity in streams and riversCredit: ...

New ‘umbrella’ species would massively improve conservation

Credit: The University of Queensland The protection of Australia's threatened species could be improved by a factor of seven, if ...

The birds and the bats: Evolving to fly may have had big effect on gut microbiome

Comparing microbiomes in 900 vertebrate species revealed that bats have guts more like birds than other mammalsCredit: UC San Diego ...

Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes — probably because they can fly

Credit: Holly Lutz At a time when kombucha is commonplace on cafe menus and "probiotic-fortified" has become the newest health ...

Ghost worms mostly unchanged since the age of dinosaurs

Credit: José Cerca, Christian Meyer, Günter Purschke, Torsten H. Struck That size, shape and structure of organisms can evolve at ...

Poplars genetically modified not to harm air quality grow as well as non-modified trees

Credit: Photo by T. Rosenstiel, Portland State University. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Field trials in the Northwest and Southwest show that ...

Jaguars could prevent a not-so-great American biotic exchange

Maintaining tropical forest predators in Darien could keep coyotes at bayCredit: Fundacion Yaguara Panama For the first time, coyotes (Canis ...

Study shows animal life thriving around Fukushima

Researchers document more than 20 species in nuclear accident zoneCredit: UGA Nearly a decade after the nuclear accident in Fukushima, ...

Researchers united on international road map to insect recovery

Credit: Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) - Kees van Oers, Perro de Jong & Brechje van Beek It's no secret ...

Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, study suggests

Credit: James H. Barrett The mysterious disappearance of Greenland's Norse colonies sometime in the 15th century may have been down ...

Illegal hunting and bushmeat trade threatens biodiversity and wildlife of Angola

Credit: Francisco Maiato P. Gonçalves Hunting wild animals has been practised by humans for millions of years; however, the extraction ...

Water lily genome expands picture of the early evolution of flowering plants