Climate change is proving a major risk to one of Canada's vital fish species according to new research published in Nature Climate Change.
Plants & Animals
Jan 12, 2021
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Animal species that are at home in the high mountains are finding their habitats reduced and fragmented by roads. In addition, they face competition from scavengers from lower boreal areas that find their way to the mountains.
Plants & Animals
Sep 1, 2020
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In 2018, vast amounts of snow were spread across most of the Arctic region and did not melt fully until late summer, if at all. Publishing on October 15 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, researchers documented the ...
Ecology
Oct 15, 2019
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A team of University of Copenhagen researchers has compiled the first and only evidence that narwhals and beluga whales can breed successfully. DNA and stable isotope analysis of an anomalous skull from the Natural History ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 20, 2019
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The early arrival of spring in parts of the Arctic is driven by winter snow melting sooner than in previous decades and by rising temperatures, research suggests.
Environment
Apr 25, 2019
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Paleontologists working on a steep river bank in Alaska have discovered fossil evidence of the northernmost marsupial known to science.
Archaeology
Feb 19, 2019
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Based on data from 10 long-term forest monitoring plots, including seven from the Smithsonian's ForestGEO network, a team led by Jacob Usinowicz during his doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides ...
Environment
Sep 20, 2017
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Spring is coming sooner to some plant species in the low Arctic of Greenland, while other species are delaying their emergence amid warming winters. The changes are associated with diminishing sea ice cover, according to ...
Environment
Feb 23, 2017
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Some might say it takes a rare breed to survive the Alaska wilderness. The discovery of a possible new species of hybrid butterfly from the state's interior is proving that theory correct.
Plants & Animals
Mar 18, 2016
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The first video of life on Arctic sea ice from a polar bear point of view has been released by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Ecology
Jun 7, 2014
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