Domestic cats that regularly catch wild animals still get most of their nutrition from food provided at home, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2021
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When warmwater fish species like bass, walleye and crappie that are not native to the Pacific Northwest, but prized by some anglers, overlap with baby spring chinook salmon in reservoirs in Oregon's Willamette River they ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2021
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Poaching has longer-term effects on elephant populations than originally thought, according to a pair of studies published recently by researchers at Colorado State University and Save the Elephants. This new research shows ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 17, 2021
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Previous fires may hold the key to predicting and reducing the severity of future wildfires in the western United States as fire activity continues to increase, according to researchers from Penn State and the U.S. Forest ...
Environment
Sep 9, 2021
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The San Nicolas Island fox, a subspecies of the Channel Island Fox only found on the most remote of California's eight Channel Islands, is at a low risk of extinction, new research published last week in Ecosphere shows.
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2021
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Logged forests near regional and rural towns and settlements are at increased risk of increased fire severity, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) shows.
Ecology
Aug 16, 2021
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It is the most comprehensive study of its kind to date. Researchers at the University of Bonn and the University of South-Eastern Norway have studied how two characteristic arctic-alpine plant species respond to global warming. ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 13, 2021
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Finding animals in the wild can be tough, even for researchers with access to airplanes, high-end cameras and other costly gear.
Plants & Animals
Aug 12, 2021
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Coastal marshes are vulnerable to erosion caused by rising seas, pounding waves, and tidal flows. In Elkhorn Slough on the Central Coast of California, these vulnerabilities are made worse by superabundant crabs found at ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 9, 2021
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For perhaps the first time ever, researchers have mapped out the true extent of habitat loss for salmon in the Lower Fraser River, one of the most important spawning and rearing grounds for Pacific salmon in B.C.
Plants & Animals
Aug 5, 2021
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