Species have been going extinct on our planet since life began on it. However, the rate of extinction considerably increased with the rise of human populations. Humans affect the biosphere and cause significant alterations ...
Ecology
Nov 5, 2019
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Monarch butterflies are moving south through Texas on their annual autumn migration to overwintering sites in Central Mexico, but millions die in collisions with vehicles while flying low across Texas highways. Monarch numbers ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 5, 2019
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Pax, Latin for 'peace' made its way into the scientific name of a new coral discovered off Pacific Panama and described in the journal Bulletin of Marine Science. According to researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...
Ecology
Oct 22, 2019
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A more reliable method for identifying regions with different relationships between air pollution and weather conditions improves the detection of pollution hotspots.
Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2019
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Tongariro National Park is not just centrally located—it's a central part of New Zealand culture.
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2019
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Among many particles arriving from outer space, there are ones with the extremely high energy that travel at nearly the speed of light, which is equivalent of a baseball thrown at a speed of 100 meters per second. New hypothesis ...
Astronomy
Aug 26, 2019
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Earth is seeing an unprecedented loss of species, which some ecologists are calling a sixth mass extinction. In May, a United Nations report warned that 1 million species are threatened by extinction. More recently, 571 plant ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2019
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In the southern Atlantic Rainforest remnants between Rio de Janeiro State in Southeast Brazil and Santa Catarina State in South Brazil, there are some 600 species of harvestmen (Opiliones), arachnids that live in caves and ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2019
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Over the past 300 years, 79 plants have been confirmed extinct from three of the world's biodiversity hotspots located in South Africa—the Cape Floristic Region, the Succulent Karoo, and the Maputuland-Pondoland-Albany ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 22, 2019
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Imagine your favorite beach filled with thousands of ducks and gulls. Now envision coming back a week later and finding condos being constructed on that spot. This many ducks in one place surely should indicate this spot ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 30, 2019
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