Protecting small forests fails to protect bird biodiversity
Forests need better management to maintain ecological integrity, Rutgers-led study saysCredit: Matthew Sileo Simply protecting small forests will not maintain ...
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A new study looks at ways to cut roadkill numbers for small and medium-sized mammals
Traffic on the expanded Highway 175 from Quebec City to the Saguenay has been a cause of death for thousands ...
Rating riverside corridors — the 'escape routes' for animals under climate change
Credit: Bureau of Land Management Under climate change, plants and animals will shift their habitats to track the conditions they ...
Study explores new way to help increase conservation impact
Credit: Robert Cooke A study led by researchers at the University of Southampton reveals huge variations in the similarity and ...
Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia
Peasant farmers began transforming diets across the Old World 7,000 years ago, study findsCredit: Data source: Xinyi Liu; Animation by ...
WVU researcher unearths an ice age in the African desert
Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--A field trip to Namibia to study volcanic rocks led to an unexpected discovery by West Virginia ...
Salmon populations may adapt their eggs to survive in degraded rivers
Credit: University of Southampton A University of Southampton study suggests that the membrane of salmon eggs may evolve to cope ...
Earth's largest extinction event likely took plants first
Credit: Christopher Fielding Little life could endure the Earth-spanning cataclysm known as the Great Dying, but plants may have suffered ...
Major study could benefit 11 million Thai people living in vulnerable coastal zones
Credit: Suparee Boonmanun A major study aims to improve understanding of the vulnerability of Thailand's shoreline and coastal communities to ...
Abandoned fields turn into forests five times faster than thought
Russian scientists studied abandoned arable land in the European part of Russia where temperate forests grow. The study showed that ...
Identifying factors that influence mercury levels in tuna
Most consumers' exposure to toxic methylmercury occurs when they eat fish. But research just published in the ACS journal Environmental ...
Researchers uncover migratory schedule of swallows, new study
A first-ever University of Guelph study has uncovered precisely when and where tree swallows stop during flights, which could tell ...
Experts warn against mega-dams in lowland tropical forests
Credit: Isabel Jones Mega-dams should not be built in lowland tropical forest regions due to the threat they pose to ...
Revised Brazilian forest code may lead to increased legal deforestation in Amazon
Researchers show that up to 15 million hectares of forest risk losing protection owing to a new clause in the ...
Melting ice sheets release tons of methane into the atmosphere, study finds
Credit: Jakub D Zarsky Melting ice sheets release tons of methane into the atmosphere, study finds The Greenland Ice Sheet ...
The importance of 'edge populations' to biodiversity
Protecting plants at the northern limit of their range may help species survive climate changeCredit: Hargreaves/McGill University More than two-thirds ...
Peering into Little Foot's 3.67 million-year-old brain
First ever endocast reconstruction of the nearly complete brain of the hominin known as Little Foot reveals a small brain ...
Foxes in the city: Citizen science helps researchers to study urban wildlife
Credit: L. Hamelbeck-Galle/stadtwildtiere.at Urban habitats are becoming increasingly more important for several wildlife species. Foxes, for example, have become successful ...
Turning climate change from a 'tragedy of the commons' to positive action
Credit: J Adger Climate change must no longer be viewed as a "tragedy of the commons", researchers say. December marks ...