One out of three rivers in the Iberian Peninsula are highly salinized mainly due the impact of agricultural activity and urbanization. This environmental problem will affect hydric ecosystems due global warming, the growing ...
Environment
Dec 7, 2018
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A team of Brazilian biologists supported by the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) is unlocking the secrets of one of the world's most fragile and threatened biodiversity hotspots thanks to the success of a pioneering ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 20, 2018
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Due to its biodiversity and theoretically huge number of taxa waiting to be discovered, soil fauna has been called the poor man's rain forest. If a researcher cannot head to the tropics but wishes to discover something new, ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 1, 2018
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Some of the world's most threatened rays and sharks could be one step closer to being saved.
Ecology
Oct 25, 2018
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Cryptic fauna—small organisms that inhabit the hidden spaces within a reef structure—represent a substantial proportion of the diversity within coral reefs but are typically neglected in traditional visual surveys, which ...
Environment
Oct 2, 2018
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The Earth's climate is changing, and it's changed before. The world's oceans are warming, and they've warmed before.
Environment
Sep 25, 2018
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Japan's lax controls over its domestic stock of ivory are encouraging illegal exports to other countries and undermining efforts to end trafficking in elephant tusks, a report said Wednesday.
Ecology
Dec 20, 2017
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Talk about a cute critter: a hippo small enough to fit in a pet cage.
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2017
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A surprising diversity of bugs recorded in upland streams in northern England may indicate a recovery from past acid pollution, according to scientists at the University of York.
Environment
May 9, 2017
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Thanks to the moonlighting activities of a CLP-funded team, primatologists are a little less in the dark about the distribution of a nocturnal monkey.
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2016
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