Identifying the best bumble bee diets
A new study has identified the bee's knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest.
Plants & Animals
May 22, 2023
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News tagged with endangered list
Researchers tentatively place Tasmanian tiger extinction in the late 1990s
An international group of researchers led by the University of Tasmania has taken a fresh look into the disappearance, and conceivable reappearance, of the Tasmanian tiger thylacine. The last thylacine confirmed killed in ...
Better metric for prioritizing conservation of 'evolutionarily distinctive' species
An updated metric for prioritizing species' conservation that incorporates scientific uncertainty and complementarity between species, in addition to extinction risk and evolutionary distinctiveness, has been published on ...
Evolution
Feb 28, 2023
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Hazel dormice should be classified as 'endangered,' according to new research
New research has highlighted issues about how the conservation status of different species is classified, and suggests the focus should be on restoring species now rather than waiting for them to become threatened with extinction ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 13, 2023
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Satellite mapping finds new colony of Emperor penguins
Satellite mapping technology has discovered another new colony of the highly threatened Emperor penguins in Antarctica, researchers revealed Friday.
Ecology
Jan 20, 2023
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'Think globally, act locally' with new bird conservation tool
Nearly half of all bird species worldwide are declining, according to the 2022 State of the World's Birds report. How do you tackle a challenge that big?
Plants & Animals
Nov 15, 2022
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We are running out of time to pass the Recovering America's Wildlife Act
The United States faces an ongoing biodiversity crisis, worsened by climate change and the destruction of habitat. Twenty-three species of native plants and animals in the United States were declared extinct last year; hundreds ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 7, 2022
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Gray whale population off western U.S. continues to decline
U.S. researchers say the number of gray whales off western North America has continued to fall over the last two years, a decline that resembles previous population swings over the past several decades.
Ecology
Oct 8, 2022
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You don't have to be a cute koala to be an Instagram influencer. Give lizards and bugs a chance
Remember the popularity contests of high school? Often our athletic, genetically gifted classmates got the most attention: the school captain, the footy team captain, the prom queen. But popularity contests don't just exist ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2022
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Recording the seasons using the Nature's Notebook platform
The proliferation of citizen science platforms has allowed for widespread collection of data in countless disciplines, including phenology, the study of the timing of seasonal events in plants and animals. Writing in BioScience, ...
Ecology
Aug 3, 2022
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