Worldwide, marine megafauna are at risk of extinction due to climate change, habitat loss, pollution, overhunting, population fragmentation, and hybridization with related species in areas disturbed by humans. Genetic studies ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 5, 2021
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Scientists know that biodiversity is declining across much of the world although less universally and dramatically than we feared. We also know that things are likely to get worse in the future, with a combination of habitat ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 22, 2020
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The recovery of beavers may have beneficial consequences for amphibians because beaver dams can create the unique habitats that amphibians need.
Ecology
Dec 8, 2020
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A Skoltech researcher and her colleagues from Canada and Chile experimented with mathematical evolutionary models to explore how well ecosystems can keep up with changing environmental conditions—a question all too relevant ...
Evolution
Nov 17, 2020
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Bee populations in the United States and worldwide are declining for a variety of reasons—habitat change, climate change, insecticide use, disease, urbanization and the introduction of non-native species.
Plants & Animals
Nov 6, 2020
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Future pandemics will happen more often, kill more people and wreak even worse damage to the global economy than Covid-19 without a fundamental shift in how humans treat nature, the United Nations' biodiversity panel said ...
Ecology
Oct 29, 2020
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The American pika is a charismatic, diminutive relative of rabbits that some researchers say is at high risk of extinction due to climate change. Pikas typically live in cool habitats, often in mountains, under rocks and ...
Ecology
Oct 13, 2020
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New international research led by Curtin University has found approximately a quarter of carnivorous plant species across the world may be at risk of extinction due to global climate change, illegal poaching, and the clearing ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 24, 2020
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Researchers have discovered significant variations in the ability of different UK butterfly species to maintain a suitable body temperature. Species that rely most on finding a suitably shady location to keep cool are at ...
Ecology
Sep 24, 2020
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242
One of nature's epic events is underway: Monarch butterflies' fall migration. Departing from all across the United States and Canada, the butterflies travel up to 2,500 miles to cluster at the same locations in Mexico or ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2020
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