Search results for water conservation

Plants & Animals Jan 29, 2025

Conserving prairie dogs could restore North America's grasslands

Colorado State University researchers have identified priority areas for the conservation of the black-tailed prairie dog in the United States, extending from Montana to Texas and New Mexico to Arizona. Protecting these regions ...

Earth Sciences Jan 16, 2025

Earth's water cycle: Study reveals how climate change may alter hydrology of grassland ecosystems

Research co-led by the University of Maryland reveals that drought and increased temperatures in a CO2-rich climate can dramatically alter how grasslands use and move water.

Plants & Animals Jan 16, 2025

Portable eDNA test can detect rare softshell turtle in a massive body of water

Scientists have developed and validated a first-of-its-kind, portable environmental DNA (eDNA) test to help detect the world's rarest turtle, the Swinhoe's softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), which is teetering on the brink ...

Ecology Jan 15, 2025

Calls to curb invasive species spread via untreated water transfer in England and Wales

Development of cities and the demands of agriculture mean that huge volumes of untreated water from lakes, reservoirs and rivers are now routinely moved large distances, across countries, up to hundreds of miles, using pipelines, ...

Plants & Animals Jan 13, 2025

Wind turbines impair bats' access to water in agricultural landscapes, study finds

Bats depend on open bodies of water such as small ponds and lakes for foraging and drinking. Access to water is particularly important for survival in the increasingly hot and dry summers caused by climate change, the time ...

Plants & Animals Jan 10, 2025

Shallow waters and fast currents boost elkhorn coral restoration

To help rare elkhorn corals survive in Florida waters, coral researchers should place them in shallow ocean locations with fast currents, scientists at the University of Miami NOAA Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric ...

Environment Jan 7, 2025

'Forever chemicals' in wastewater far more widespread than previously known, study reveals

The "forever chemicals" flowing from U.S. wastewater treatment plants are not only more abundant than previously thought, but also largely consist of pharmaceuticals that have received little scientific or regulatory attention, ...

Environment Dec 12, 2024

Southern states brace for water changes, report finds

Water is everywhere. It falls freely from the sky and flows across the earth. Humans are inextricably connected to water and to forests. Changes in land use, forest conditions, and climate affect water – with consequences ...

Ecology Dec 6, 2024

Finding traces of fish with DNA from water samples

Silje Halvorsen bends down and fills a plastic bottle with water from Gillsvannet lake, a sheltered bathing spot just outside the center of Kristiansand.

Plants & Animals Nov 30, 2024

How a species of ground squirrel manages to go without food and water over the winter months

A team of molecular and physiology specialists at the Yale University School of Medicine has uncovered some of the hibernating secrets of thirteen-lined ground squirrels, and have partly explained how it manages to avoid ...

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