Discovery of rare bee species links the French Alps to remote regions in Turkey and Iraq
A team of European researchers have discovered a new species of osmiine bee with an unusual geographic distribution.
A team of European researchers have discovered a new species of osmiine bee with an unusual geographic distribution.
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2024
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A University of Kansas study of rice paddy snakes in Southeast Asia gives key details to their diversification and natural history, adding molecular evidence that the rise of the Khorat Plateau and subsequent environmental ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 12, 2024
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Between 1990 and 2005, the national average urban fractional vegetation cover (FVC) decreased from 0.38 to 0.35 due to the increase in floor area ratio and impervious surface in urban areas. The decline is particularly pronounced ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 8, 2024
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As the environmental and economic costs of industrial farming grow, so do opportunities to spur an ecological change.
Ecology
Jan 30, 2024
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Waste is a natural by-product of life on Earth and of productive human economies. Living systems have evolved to reconstitute waste—creatures like dung beetles fill an ecological niche of breaking down other organisms' ...
Environment
Jan 18, 2024
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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have studied the effects of forest logging and climate change on bird communities in tropical mountains, by examining over 10 years of data.
Plants & Animals
Jan 5, 2024
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Microbial communities are highly diverse, yet the mechanisms underlying microbial community assembly are not well understood. In 1967, Daniel Janzen hypothesized that low climatic variability along elevational gradients results ...
Ecology
Jan 3, 2024
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Ecological restoration may save coral atoll islands from the rising seas of climate change, according to an international team of scientists, conservationists, and an indigenous leader.
Ecology
Dec 18, 2023
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Climate change is pushing farmers in the Global South towards short-term choices that further increase their vulnerability, research involving a Bayes Business School academic suggests.
Ecology
Dec 18, 2023
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Drawing together an array of interdisciplinary studies across archaeology, ecology, anthropology, and evolutionary theory, Erle Ellis, professor of geography and environmental systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore ...
Social Sciences
Dec 14, 2023
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