Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

Biodiversity Boosts Ecosystem Resilience and Longevity

They can also maintain their services for longer, as botanists and ecologists from the universities of Zurich and Göttingen have discovered. Their study…

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Human Impact on Black Sea: Early Delta Development Insights

In the delta’s early stages of development, the river deposited its sediment within a protected bay. As the delta expanded onto the Black Sea shelf in the late…

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Tracking Coral Reef Fish Habitats: Insights from Ocean Science

Ocean scientists have long known that juvenile coral reef fishes use coastal seagrass and mangrove habitats as nurseries, later moving as adults onto coral…

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Wild Bees at Risk: Climate Change Threatens Mountain Ecosystems

Glaciers are melting, permafrost soils are thawing: global warming is also evident in high mountains. And, obviously, the higher temperatures there will have…

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Tigers Adapt to Night Life for Coexistence in Chitwan National Park

The revelation that tigers and people are sharing exactly the same space – such as the same roads and trails – of Chitwan National Park flies in the face of…

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Major world interests at stake in Canada's vast Mackenzie River Basin

The governance of Canada's massive Mackenzie River Basin holds enormous national but also global importance due to the watershed's impact on the Arctic Ocean,…

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Researchers Confirm Decline in Breeding Chinstrap Penguins in Antarctic Peninsula

In the paper entitled “First direct, site-wide penguin survey at Deception Island, Antarctica, suggests significant declines in breeding chinstrap penguins”,…

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Male Snails Babysit: A Surprising Parental Role Uncovered

The surprising new finding by researchers at the University of California, Davis, puts S. macrospira in a small club of reproductive outliers characterized by…

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Raccoon Invasion: New Health Risks for Europe’s Wildlife

According to a study, its expansion across Spain and Europe is bringing infectious and parasitic diseases like rabies. This puts the health of native species…

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New Maps May Reduce Tourism Impacts on Hawaiian Dolphins

But a study led by researchers at Duke and Stony Brook universities gives scientists and resource managers a promising new tool to curb the frequency of the…

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Darwin Discovered to Be Right: Eastern Pacific Barrier is Virtually Impassable by Coral Species

Darwin hypothesized in 1880 that most species could not disperse across the marine barrier, and Baums's study is the first comprehensive test of that…

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Cooled Coal Emissions: Cleaner Air and Lower Costs Explained

The computations for such a system, prepared on an electronic spreadsheet, appeared in Physical Review E, a journal of the American Physical Society.In a…

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For juvenile moose, momma's boys and girls fare best

Based on ten years of fieldwork in the Tetons of Wyoming, WCS Conservation Biologist, University of Montana Professor and study author Dr. Joel Berger looked…

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Ocean Floor Survey Reveals Abundant Juvenile Scallops

Unofficially dubbed the “Seahorse” because of its curved and spiny profile, the instrument is the latest and most sophisticated version of a survey system…

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Ecologist: Genetically Engineered Algae for Biofuel Pose Potential Risks That Should Be Studied

Writing in the August 2012 issue of the journal BioScience, the researchers argue that ecology experts should be among scientists given independent authority…

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Massachusetts Butterflies Shift North Due to Climate Change

The authors of a Harvard study published today in Nature Climate Change gathered their data from an unlikely source—the trip accounts of the Massachusetts…

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