Imagine a murderous sausage with legs. Give it a heartbeat up to 300 beats per minute and a need to consume a third of its weight daily just to survive. What have you got? A weasel.
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2023
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A new paper in The Lancet Planetary Health by an international team of scientists from the University of Washington, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and other institutions says that any future pandemic prevention agreement ...
Ecology
Apr 4, 2023
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Pangolins, unique scale-covered mammals, are drastically declining in numbers across Asia and Africa, largely due to illegal trade. Part of the trade, both legal and illegal, supports the traditional Chinese medicine market, ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2023
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Researchers are deploying the latest mapping techniques to identify the most important suburban habitat for North America's largest woodpecker.
Ecology
Mar 31, 2023
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The winter killing season for manatees along Central Florida's Atlantic coast is winding down with an astounding turn of events—a tiny fraction of the animals died compared to during the last two years.
Ecology
Mar 30, 2023
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Plans to reintroduce the lynx in Scotland provoke a complex range of opinions, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Mar 30, 2023
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Protecting wildlife across the world could significantly enhance natural carbon capture and storage by supercharging ecosystem carbon sinks, a new study led by Yale School of the Environment Oastler Professor of Population ...
Ecology
Mar 28, 2023
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Plastic pollution poses a threat to marine wildlife. The plastic bags, bottles and straws that we see strewn across beaches have long been identified as a danger. But tiny fragments of plastic—called microplastics—that ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 24, 2023
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Conserving native wildlife is a challenging task and Australia's unenviable extinction record shows us we urgently need more sophisticated and effective approaches.
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2023
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The small size and isolation of the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have led to high levels of inbreeding. This inbreeding has contributed to their decline, which has continued ...
Ecology
Mar 20, 2023
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