Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) Environmental Scientist Dr. Matiu Prebble (Kāti Irakehu, Kāti Makō, Ngāi Tahu) has been co-leading research to fill in some of the unknowns around early Polynesian ...
Archaeology
Jul 19, 2023
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From above, the Southwestern U.S. is a sea of caramel and brown desert. Yet, a closer look uncovers small ribbons of green—desert forests that flourish along valuable springs and rivers. Wildlife thrives at these oases, ...
Ecology
Jul 13, 2023
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Rising global temperatures are making it harder for birds to know when it's spring and time to breed according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Plants & Animals
Jul 3, 2023
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A species of mosquito not previously recorded from Finland has been discovered in the coastal municipality of Pori. Culex modestus has become the 44th mosquito species found in Finland, and the northernmost record of the ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2023
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Strawberry lovers might want to check the provenance of their fruit this summer following controversy about a new farming bill which could cause the devastation of an iconic Spanish wetland.
Ecology
Jun 21, 2023
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With a cacophony of honks sounding like a hailstorm, tens of thousands of hungry geese blanket a lush green field in Finland with their black flocks.
Ecology
Jun 17, 2023
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A new publication from a team of scientists at USGS, Point Blue Conservation Science, and Conservation Biology Institute shows how knowledge coproduction—the collaborative creation of actionable information by scientists, ...
Ecology
Jun 7, 2023
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Dating apps are making predictions about who you'll fall in love with while marketers are using your online data to predict what you'll want to buy. As technology has transformed how people work, shop and date, ecologists ...
Ecology
May 31, 2023
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In a quest to unravel Charles Darwin's enigmatic "abominable mystery," a team of scientists from The University of Western Australia has embarked on a ground-breaking study of flowering plants that thrived approximately 125 ...
Evolution
May 31, 2023
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Earth's magnetic field, generated by the flow of molten iron in the planet's inner core, extends out into space and protects us from cosmic radiation emitted by the sun. It is also remarkably used by animals like salmon, ...
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2023
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