Echo from the past makes rice paddies a good home for wetland plants
Geography before human land use impacts how well plant species are retainedCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from ...
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Carnivores living near people feast on human food, threatening ecosystems
Credit: Phil Manlick. Photo credits (Left to Right): Flickr/Tambako the Jaguar/Renee Grayson and Wikimedia Commons/United States National Park Service/United States ...
Study finds fungal disease of snakes in 19 states, Puerto Rico
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In a collaborative effort between scientists and personnel on military bases ...
Broken promises: Almost 80% of threatened species lack sufficient protection
Credit: TJ Watt A failure by governments to deliver on commitments under a global nature conservation treaty, the Convention on ...
Risk of human-to-wildlife transmission of the COVID-19 virus
Credit: Image credit: Sophie Gryseels There's considerable risk that humans transmit SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to wildlife, according ...
Pesticides and food scarcity dramatically reduce wild bee population
Study finds 57% drop in reproduction when exposed to both threatsCredit: Clara Stuligross/UC Davis The loss of flowering plants and ...
The first human settlers on islands caused extinctions
Fossil records depict devastating effect of humans on birds in the BahamasCredit: (Kamella Boullé/Macaulay Library) Though some believe prehistoric humans ...
Hunger encourages risk-taking
Meta-analysis by research team from the universities of Bielefeld and Jena shows that in animals, difficult living conditions increase risk-taking ...
Woodpeckers’ drumming: Conserved meaning despite different structure over the years
Credit: (Picture: Alain Blanc, ENES team) Animal acoustic signals are amazingly diverse. Researchers from the University of Zurich and the ...
Bright light bars big-eyed birds from human-altered landscapes
Credit: Ian Ausprey/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- New research shows the glaring light in human-altered landscapes, such as livestock pastures ...
Conservation planning in Amazon should prioritize aquatic biodiversity, study concludes
Simulations using field data suggest focusing on the protection of species that live in rivers and lakes can be more ...
Alien species to increase by 36% worldwide by 2050
Credit: Professor Tim Blackburn, UCL The number of alien (non-native) species, particularly insects, arthropods and birds, is expected to increase ...
How the Humboldt squid’s genetic past and present can secure its future
Marine biologists studying the genetic structure of the Humboldt squid population found it is vulnerable to overfishing by fleets on ...
How a toxic chromium species could form in drinking water
Credit: Adapted from Environmental Science & Technology 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c03922 The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, brought much-needed attention to ...
Marine biodiversity reshuffles under warmer and sea ice-free Pacific Arctic
Credit: Irene D. Alabia, et al., Science of The Total Environment, supplementary file, July 15, 2020 Climate warming will alter ...
Sentinels of ocean acidification impacts survived Earth’s last mass extinction
Credit: Katja Peijnenburg, Erica Goetze, Deborah Wall-Palmer, Lisette Mekkes. Two groups of tiny, delicate marine organisms, sea butterflies and sea ...
Searching together: A lesson from rats
Concentrate on your own task but also pay attention to others -- this is the key rule for success, at ...
Scientists predict potential spread, habitat of invasive Asian giant hornet
Credit: Photo courtesy WSDA PULLMAN, Wash. -Â Researchers at Washington State University have predicted how and where the Asian giant hornet, ...
Genomic adaptations to a rice-based diet mitigate the risk of obesity and diabetes
Credit: Evolutionary Applications The traditional rice-based diet of some east-Asian population has brought to a number of genomic adaptations that ...
Climate crisis ages fish, amphibians and reptiles
Credit: Adeline Marcos Climatic conditions are changing at an unprecedented rate, affecting mainly fish, amphibians and reptiles, ectothermic animals that ...