The African wild dog: An ambassador for the world’s largest terrestrial conservation area
Credit: (Image: Dominik Behr) Dispersal is an important process governing the persistence of wild animal populations. Upon reaching sexual maturity, ...
Tag: Geography
Without commuter traffic, pandemic-era drivers are speeding up, increasing noise pollution
BU ecologists say higher sound levels in Boston's Blue Hills Reservation could disrupt wildlife and human health benefits of nature ...
UBCO researcher uses geology to help astronomers find habitable planets
Findings will help better identify Earth-like planets that could sustain lifeCredit: Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Astronomers have identified ...
First Australian populations followed footpath ‘superhighways’ across the continent
Credit: Megan Hotchkiss Davidson/Sandia National Laboratories The best path across the desert is rarely the straightest. For the first human ...
Social media and science show how ship’s plastic cargo dispersed from Florida to Norway
Credit: Tracey Williams, Lost at Sea Project A ship's container lost overboard in the North Atlantic has resulted in printer ...
Scientists don spacesuits to explore Hawaiian lava tubes as if they were on Mars
Credit: HI-SEAS MUNICH -- Imagine trying to pick up a pebble or scrape microbes off a cave wall in a ...
Shopping online or locally – an individual choice
Shopping Expenditure and Personal Attitude Influence the Decision on Where to Shop in the Multi-channel Context - Study Focuses on ...
New research uncovers continental crust emerged 500 million years earlier than thought
Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI MUNICH -- The first emergence and persistence of continental crust on Earth during the Archaean (4 billion ...
A growing problem of ‘deepfake geography’: How AI falsifies satellite images
Credit: Zhao et al., Cartography and Geographic Information Science A fire in Central Park seems to appear as a smoke ...
Energy unleashed by submarine volcanoes could power a continent
Credit: Image courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Volcanic eruptions deep in our oceans are capable of extremely ...
Human land use wasn’t always at nature’s expense
Credit: Ganta Srinivas Nearly three-quarters of Earth's land had been transformed by humans by 10,000BC, but new research shows it ...
Study reveals the workings of nature’s own earthquake blocker
Findings point way toward more detailed earthquake predictionsCredit: Jamie Howarth/Victoria University of Wellington A new study finds a naturally occurring ...
Highly dense urban areas are not more vulnerable to COVID-19, researchers say
Credit: Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir, Ayyoob Sharifi & Nabi Moradpour A person who owns a car or who has a college ...
University of Guam launches Drone Corps for students
Program to help gather footage and data for local agenciesCredit: University of Guam As the use of drones continues to ...
Satellite map of human pressure on land provides insight on sustainable development
Credit: Joe Mendoza/Colorado State University The coronavirus pandemic has led researchers to switch gears or temporarily abandon projects due to ...
Channel migration plays leading role in river network evolution, study finds
Credit: Graphic courtesy Jeffrey Kwang A new study by former University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate student Jeffrey Kwang, now at ...
Indigenous land-use reduced catastrophic wildfires on the Fish Lake Plateau
Credit: S. Yoshi Maezumi If you were to visit the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau a thousand years ago, you'd ...
World’s first study to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions from Chinese inland waters
HKU geographer leads world's first study to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions from Chinese inland waters over the past 30 yearsCredit: ...
Regional habitat differences identified for threatened piping plovers on Atlantic coast
Findings can help enhance shorebird species' protection, recoveryCredit: Credit: Susan Haig, USGS Piping plovers, charismatic shorebirds that nest and feed ...
ACUASI completes remote sensing map of Canada’s first highway to the Arctic
Credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada Members of the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI) recently completed a high ...