Three years of "health check-ups" on Oregon's summer resident gray whales shows a compelling relationship between whales' overall body condition and changing ocean conditions that likely limited availability of prey for the ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 27, 2020
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As the planet warms, carbon markets are getting hot too. Forest landowners have been looking for ways to enter these markets, making money from their commercial timberland not just by selling logs—but also by demonstrating ...
Environment
Apr 6, 2017
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Fertilizers are known to promote the growth of toxic cyanobacterial blooms in freshwater and oceans worldwide, but a new multi-institution study shows the aquatic microbes themselves can drive nitrogen and phosphorus cycling ...
Ecology
Jan 8, 2015
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A Simon Fraser University study has found that steelhead trout have a remarkable life-cycle variation that responds to changes in temperature and numbers of other species of salmon. They may go to the ocean when they are ...
Ecology
Sep 28, 2018
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Switching off street lights to save money and energy could have a positive knock-on effect on our nocturnal pollinators, according to new research.
Ecology
Jan 21, 2019
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Tropical forests span a huge area, harbor a wide diversity of species, and are important to water and nutrient cycling on a planet scale. But in ancient Amazonia, over 500 years ago, clearing tropical forests was a way of ...
Environment
Jan 18, 2018
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New research shows that fishing is having a significant impact on the make-up of fish populations of the Great Barrier Reef.
Environment
Apr 21, 2015
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Caribou, the North American cousin of reindeer, migrate farther than any terrestrial animal. They can cover thousands of miles as they move between winter feeding grounds and summer calving grounds. But many caribou herds ...
Ecology
Dec 12, 2019
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The bodies of Svalbard reindeer are extremely well adapted to their arctic home at 79 degrees N latitude. As the northernmost reindeer population on the planet, they are thick and round, which makes it easier for them to ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2019
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Proposed hydropower dams in Gabon pose a substantial threat to the African nation's most culturally and economically important fishes, according to a new study.
Plants & Animals
Feb 6, 2020
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