Hunting Can Be Good for Wildlife Populations – If Managed Correctly
Hunting or other wildlife regulations can make a population more viable – if done correctly. This may sound counterintuitive, but reducing the number of animals…
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Student’s Invention Enables Researchers To Easily Track Elusive Insects
With some home security software and a little ingenuity, researchers have developed an inexpensive device that will allow them to study the behavior and activity…
Climate Change and Extreme Weather Will Have Complex Effects on Infectious Disease Transmission
Temperature variation affects pathogens and their hosts in distinct ways, and these organisms are influenced by the type of variation and the average background temperature…
Earth’s Coldest Forests Are Shifting Northward With Climate Change – Biodiversity and Wildfire Risks
New research from Northern Arizona University shows rising temperatures are causing Earth’s coldest forests to shift northward, raising concerns about biodiversity, an increased risk of…
Experts Warn: Number of Wildfires To Rise by 50% by 2100 and Governments Are Not Prepared
The report, Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires, finds an elevated risk even for the Arctic and other regions previously unaffected…
Safi Organics: A Life-Changing Fertilizer for Rural Farmers in Kenya
MIT spinout Safi Organics uses farmers’ crop residue to make an organic fertilizer that can increase yields and improve soil health. Most commercial fertilizer travels…
Stanford Researchers Identify Dangerous “Double-Hazard” Zones for Wildfire in the West
Communities within the West’s wildland-urban interface are booming in the very places where ecosystems are most sensitive to drought, posing increasing wildfire risks in an…
Will an Imperiled Butterfly Survive Climate Change? It Depends on Shifting Rainfall Patterns
When we think of climate change, we often imagine how a warmer world will impact species, but a new study highlights the importance of changes…
Wildlife Crisis: Decline of Vultures and Rise of Dogs Carries Serious Disease Risks
In the yards behind the slaughterhouses—also called abattoirs—of Ethiopia, an ecological shift is unfolding that has echoes of similar crises all over the world. Species…
Earth May Have 9,000 Tree Species That Haven’t Been Discovered Yet
Our planet might be hosting approximately 9,000 tree species yet to be discovered. A third of these are rare species with a population that is…
Only 15% of Coastal Regions Around the World Remain Intact – Urgent Need for Global Conservation
New research has revealed that only 15 percent of coastal areas around the world remain intact, exposing the need for urgent coastal rehabilitation and conservation…
The Abyssal World: Dark and Hostile Environment Is the Last Terra Incognita of the Earth Surface
The deep-ocean floor is the least explored ecosystem on the planet, despite covering more than 60% of the Earth surface. Largely unknown life in abyssal…
A Human Fingerprint on the Pantanal Inferno – Human Activities Primed the Region To Burn
Heat and drought exacerbated fire season in 2020, but cattle grazing and other human activities also primed the region to burn. One of the world’s…
Red Snow Phenomena: A Unique Balancing Act
Red snow is a unique phenomenon caused by blooms of red algae that live on the surface of snow. Now, researchers from Japan have developed…
“Alien” Species of Predatory Hammerhead Worms Identified in Europe and Africa
Two new species of potentially invasive hammerhead flatworms from Europe (France and Italy) and Africa (Mayotte) “Alien” species of predatory hammerhead worms – including a…
Huge New Study Estimates There Are 9,200 Tree Species on Earth Yet To Be Discovered
Number of Earth’s tree species estimated to be 14% higher than currently known, with some 9,200 species yet to be discovered. A new study involving…
How Temperate Rainforests Can Effectively Aid the Fight Against Climate Change
There is global recognition that woodland expansion could be one of the most effective solutions in the fight against climate change. However, new research has…
Illegal Gold Mining in Peruvian Amazon Turns Pristine Rainforests Into Heavily Polluted Mercury Sinks
Scientists record the highest levels of atmospheric mercury pollution in the world in a pristine patch of the Peruvian Amazon. If you had to guess…
