Climate change poses a number of challenges to plants and animals. For example, as the climate changes, appropriate climatic conditions for many species are changing, and some may disappear altogether. This can become even ...
Evolution
Jul 14, 2022
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Salmon famously travel hundreds of miles upstream to reach their home waters to spawn, but climate change is shrinking their destination. A new study offers high-resolution details on how Chinook salmon habitats are being ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2022
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An Indonesian zoo has welcomed dozens of new baby Komodo dragons hatched in captivity in recent months as part of a breeding programme, its director said Tuesday, offering hope for efforts to conserve the endangered species.
Plants & Animals
Jun 28, 2022
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Migratory birds are declining globally because of the way that humans have modified the landscape over recent decades—according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2022
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Just 150 fragments of staghorn coral planted off Florida's shore might give new hope to the state's endangered reefs.
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2022
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Millions of years ago, giant dwarf crocodiles roamed a part of Africa with a taste for our human ancestors.
Evolution
Jun 15, 2022
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A blueprint for measuring calcium carbonate on the ocean floor could help marine scientists monitor coral reef health around the globe.
Ecology
Jun 15, 2022
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A rare plant that depends on wetlands for survival is now on the federal endangered species list, a designation that environmentalists say will boost efforts to protect the last free-flowing river in the desert Southwest.
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2022
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Juvenile bull sharks generally remain inside rivers, sheltered by mangroves while they are young and more vulnerable to predators, before moving out into coastal habitats. Until now, scientists assumed they relied on these ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 10, 2022
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New research finds climate change is having an impact on how large whale species, including the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, use habitats in the warming Gulf of Maine, showing that right whales' use of ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2022
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