Air Conditioning Is Failing for Glacier National Park’s Iconic Mountain Goats
Glacier National Park’s iconic mountain goats seek out vanishing snow patches where they cool and reduce their respiration. A new study in the journal PLOS…
Conservation
Spying With Drones to Help Hippo Conservation Efforts
A new University of New South Wales (UNSW) study has shown that using a drone to film hippos in Africa is an effective, affordable tool…
Saving Bats From Wind Turbine Death – “Green-Green Dilemma”
German scientists survey stakeholders about their attitudes toward methods to mitigate bat fatalities from wind turbines used in generating renewable energy. Wind energy holds great…
Six-Year Whale Shark Study Offers New Behavior and Conservation Insights [Video]
International team of marine scientists complete six-year whale shark study The study uses a novel combination of several monitoring techniques, including state-of-the-art acoustic and satellite…
Innovative, Slippery Toilet Coating Saves Water With Cleaner Flushing [Video]
New coating could reduce toilet water consumption by half, increase water sustainability. Every day, more than 141 billion liters of water are used solely to…
The Hidden Ark: Grassroots Initiative Helping Save Fish From Extinction
A new study shows that aquarium hobbyists can play an important role in freshwater fish conservation by filling in the gaps left by the scientific…
Nature Documentaries Don’t Show Threats to Nature, but Increasingly Talk About Them
Researchers analyzing recent BBC and Netflix nature documentaries found that although they increasingly mention threats to nature, visual depictions of these threats remain scarce, potentially…
Food-Waste Study Reveals Much Fridge Food ‘Goes There to Die’
Food-waste study reveals trends behind discarded items. Americans throw out a lot more food than they expect they will, food waste that is likely driven…
Elephants Are More Likely to Die at the Hands of Humans than from Natural Causes
According to a 14-year study, adult elephants in northern Kenya are more likely to die at the hands of humans than from natural causes. George…
US Ichthyologists Claim Political Interference
US fisheries scientists are claiming that a supervisor threatened to eliminate their research division after the team had produced controversial model predictions of the survival and…
The Amazon Rainforest Could Be Drying Out
In the past few years, the Amazon rainforest in Peru’s Ucayali region has been hit by two severe droughts, one in 2005 and another in…
Cloud Forest Trees Depend on Fog
Trees in Costa Rica, as well as a number of plant species, in the tropical cloud forests quench their thirst by directly ingesting fog droplets…
All Coral Reefs May be Dying by 2100
If current carbon dioxide emission trends continue, nearly every coral reef would be decimated by 2100, according to a new review of major climate models….
Only About 1,000 Yangtze Finless Porpoises Remain
A six-week survey of the Yangtze River’s middle and lower stretches by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) in Wuhan and the…
Data Shows 2010 Amazon Megadrought Caused Serious Devastation
A new study indicates that the megadrought that struck the Amazon in 2010 devastated millions of hectares of rainforest, shedding a new light over the…
Pacific Fisheries Fail to Stop Tuna Overfishing
At a meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, which is the governing body for international fisheries agreement seeking to ensure the conservation…
Panamanian Survey Puts Global Arthropod Species at 6 Million
For two years in the Panamanian tropics, entomologists have been laboring in cranes, gliding amongst treetops using helium-filled balloons, hiking through the jungle at night…
“Coughing” Scallops Are Early Warning System for Worsening Water Quality
Scallops cough to expel feces and water from their central cavities. The friction between the mollusk’s two valves makes a sharp crack, followed by a…