What will happen to the “water tower of Europe” when tempera-tures rise and precipitation sinks in the future? Seeking an an-swer to such questions, the…
The lemur, Javan rhino and Santa Cruz kangaroo rat are all lonesome animals. As endemic species, they live in habitats restricted to a particular area due to…
Overwhelmed by speculators trying to cash-in on a prized medicinal fungus known as Himalayan Viagra, two isolated Tibetan communities have managed to do at the…
Bird populations across Europe have experienced sharp declines over the past 30 years, with the majority of losses from the most common species, say the…
The previously unknown fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans was discovered last year by researchers investigating a huge crash in the population of fire…
For the first time, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
A population of endangered giant tortoises, which once dwindled to just over a dozen, has recovered on the Galapagos island of Española, a finding described as…
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a new reproductive mode in frogs and toads – breeding and laying direct developing…
Adélie penguins are an indigenous species of the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), one of the most rapidly warming areas on Earth. Since 1950, the average annual…
Where's the remaining oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico?
“When looking at a continental scale invasion in particular, we can’t assume that the invasion is uniform across the region because of latitudinal differences…
Invasive seaweed shelters native crustacean
Now, research by an international team of scientists from the U.S., Sweden and Australia, led by University of Arizona scientists, shows that a single species…
The researchers are examining the possible causes of floods and how they interact with each other. This information is being used to create sophisticated…
The researchers studied the impacts of changes in temperature on the body size of Alpine Chamois, a species of mountain goat, over the past 30 years.
Writing this week in the journal Global Change Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison wildlife biologists Benjamin Zuckerberg and Karine Princé document that…
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