Extreme fires drove biodiversity declines despite overall resilience after the 2019–2020 Black Summer bushfire season in NSW, a new study suggests.
Ecology
Oct 23, 2023
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Jupiter's ocean moons capture most of our attention because of their potential habitability. But Io, Jupiter's bad-boy volcanic moon, is in a class of its own. There's nothing else like it in the solar system, and NASA's ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 20, 2023
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With the help of three citizen scientists, an unknown Cryptocoryne population was found in one of the streams of Zamboanga del Norte province, Philippines, in March 2023. After careful morphological studies and literature ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 19, 2023
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New research fueled in part by citizen scientists reveals that the meadow spittlebug—known for the foamy, spit-like urine released by its nymphs—can feed on at least 1,300 species of host plants, more than twice the number ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 4, 2023
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Researchers at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, have discovered something peculiar in the survival strategy of the snow fly (Chionea spp.), a flightless crane fly that lives ...
Citizen scientists have contributed more than half of all species records to Australia's national biodiversity database—the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)—and play a crucial role in supporting conversation and biodiversity ...
Ecology
Sep 28, 2023
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Citizen science isn't new anymore. For decades, keen amateur naturalists have been gathering data about nature and the environment around them—and sharing it.
Ecology
Sep 27, 2023
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A volunteer seaweed removal program involving citizen scientists has seen a dramatic improvement of up to 600% coral regrowth off the coast of Magnetic Island.
Plants & Animals
Sep 15, 2023
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Scientists from The University of New Mexico (UNM), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have detected and validated two of the longest-period exoplanets found by TESS to date. These long period large exoplanets ...
Planetary Sciences
Aug 31, 2023
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The Big Wasp Survey, a citizen science project involving thousands of volunteers throughout the UK, has yielded important genetic insights into the common wasp, reports a study led by UCL researchers.
Ecology
Aug 21, 2023
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