Climate change emerges as major driver of amphibian declines, new research finds
Amphibians are in trouble and in desperate need of conservation action, according to a new global assessment of the world's amphibian population.
Amphibians are in trouble and in desperate need of conservation action, according to a new global assessment of the world's amphibian population.
Plants & Animals
Oct 4, 2023
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Climate change has become the main factor driving amphibians towards extinction as they remained the most threatened vertebrates over the past two decades, according to research published on Wednesday.
Ecology
Oct 4, 2023
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Extreme ocean changes due to climate change are not an abstract or future scenario. This summer alone, 23 percent of the world's oceans experienced a heat wave, corresponding to an area roughly equivalent to the entire Atlantic ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 4, 2023
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When a family of red foxes popped up in Lurie Garden in May, frolicking through Millennium Park and grooming each other on a concrete slab, Seth Magle said it was an exciting development for a species that is becoming increasingly ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 3, 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 ...
A team of environmental scientists from France, Tasmania, Canada, the U.S. and Australia has found evidence suggesting that emperor penguins may be more adaptable to a changing climate than previously thought. In their study, ...
The world is losing animals at an alarming rate due to habitat degradation, climate change and illegal human activities in the wildlife protected areas. In fact, it is estimated that, by 2100, more than half of Africa's bird ...
Ecology
Sep 19, 2023
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Frogs are in trouble. While many of the world's animal species are now at risk from habitat loss, climate change and other human pressures, frogs are particularly at risk.
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2023
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Populations of European bumblebees are projected to fall drastically in the coming decades due to climate change and habitat loss, researchers warned on Wednesday.
Plants & Animals
Sep 13, 2023
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Barbara Williams zeros in on a patch of yellow wildflowers with her binoculars. She leans in slightly, her beetle earrings jangling, and proclaims "that's definitive."
Plants & Animals
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