What is killing bald eagles in the U.S.?
Credit: Susan Wilde Bald eagles, as well as other wildlife, have been succumbing to a mysterious neurodegenerative disease in the ...
Tag: Ecology/Environment
Study introduces 13 new, threatened species of sparkly moths from Hawaii
One of the islands' oldest animal groups, can these tiny insects survive the next century?Credit: Chris Johns/Florida Museum of Natural ...
Does selfishness evolve? Ask a cannibal
Study confirms evolutionary link between social structure and selfishnessCredit: Volker Rudolf/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 25, 2021) - One of ...
Warm water has overlooked importance for cold-water fish, like salmon and trout
Credit: Jonny Armstrong CORVALLIS, Ore. - Warm river habitats appear to play a larger than expected role supporting the survival ...
Palm oil production can grow without converting rainforests and peatland
Nebraska agronomist: 'Potential impact is huge'Credit: Hendra Sugianto/University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Neb., March 25, 2021 -- Palm oil, the most ...
Plant gene found in insect, shields it from leaf toxins
Credit: Jixing Xia and Zhaojiang Guo Millions of years ago, aphid-like insects called whiteflies incorporated a portion of DNA from ...
How improving acoustic monitoring of bats could help protecting biodiversity
New research on how wind energy and species conservation can be brought togetherCredit: Photo: Leibniz-IZW/Christian Voigt In order to assess ...
Arctic sponge survival in the extreme deep-sea
Credit: Copyright: NIOZ For the first time, researchers from the SponGES project collected year-round video footage and hydrodynamic data from ...
Ocean’s mammals at crucial crossroads
Credit: Duke Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab The ocean's mammals are at a crucial crossroads - with some at ...
New insights into close encounters between albatross and fishing vessels
Credit: Robert Suryan. CORVALLIS, Ore. - A novel analysis of encounters between albatross and commercial fishing vessels across the North ...
Decline in black cherry regeneration may herald wider forest change
Credit: USDA Forest Service photograph In the heart of black cherry's native range, including a part of the Allegheny Hardwoods ...
Stanford economist and others assess aquaculture’s promise and peril
Credit: Created by Overview, source imagery by Maxar Technologies Despite aquaculture's potential to feed a growing world population while relieving ...
Shining light to make hydrogen
ITQB NOVA researchers engineer light-driven bacterial factories to produce hydrogenCredit: Inês Cardoso Pereira; Mónica Martins Decarbonizing the economy and achieving ...
Dangerous landfill pollutants ranked in order of toxicity by MU researchers
In partnership with the USDA Forest Service, University of Missouri researchers developed a system to prioritize most toxic pollutants.Credit: Missouri ...
Tiny currents may impact vital ocean food source
Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Copepods are tiny crustaceans about the size of a grain of rice, but they ...
Automatic trail cameras keep wildlife research going during pandemic
Researchers share how trail cameras enabled science to continue even without fieldworkCredit: Austin Green/University of Utah For scientists, especially graduate ...
Giant fossil’s ‘bird-brain’
Scientists find whopping head was crammed for spaceCredit: Flinders University The largest flightless bird ever to live weighed in up ...
Curtin research finds first clues to start of Earth’s supercontinent cycle
Curtin University research has uncovered the first solid clues about the very beginning of the supercontinent cycle of Earth, finding ...
Bees form scent-driven phone tree to pass along messages
Credit: Peleg Lab Honeybees play a scent-driven game of telephone to guide members of a colony back to their queen, ...
Engineering of Mississippi River has kept carbon out of atmosphere, study says
Scientists set out to learn more about the fate of organic carbon that is transported in large quantities by the ...
