Saving moths may be just as important as saving the bees (Jun 5, 2023)
Night-time pollinators such as moths may visit just as many plants as bees, and should also be th...
Air quality stations have collected vast stores of DNA by accident, a potentially 'game-changing' discovery for tracking global biodiversity (Jun 5, 2023)
The accelerating loss of biodiversity and increasing rate of species extinction is a major threat...
The other side of the story: How evolution impacts the environment (Jun 5, 2023)
Researchers show that an evolutionary change in the length of lizards' legs can have a significan...
Forest birds with short, round wings more sensitive to habitat fragmentation (Jun 1, 2023)
Tropical forest birds, which tend to have wings that are short and round relative to their body l...
Prescribed burns encourage foul-smelling invaders (May 23, 2023)
Though prescribed burns reduce wildfire threats and even improve habitat for some animals, new re...
How a drought affects trees depends on what's been holding them back (May 22, 2023)
Droughts can be good for trees. Certain trees, that is. Contrary to expectation, sometimes a reco...
Identifying the bee's knees of bumble bee diets (May 22, 2023)
A new study has identified the bee's knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Mi...
Is it an ant? Is it a plant? No, it's a spider! (May 17, 2023)
A species of tiny, colorful jumping spider employs two lines of defense to avoid being eaten: cam...
Rare tropical plant gains appetite for meat (May 16, 2023)
Under certain circumstances, a rare tropical plant develops into a carnivore. A research team has...
Joro spiders aren't scary: They're shy (May 16, 2023)
Despite their intimidating appearance, the giant yellow and blue-black spiders spreading across t...
We now know exactly what happens in nature when we fell forests (May 15, 2023)
Deforestation is the biggest threat to the planet's ecosystems, and new research has now mapped o...
Invading insect could transform Antarctic soils (May 10, 2023)
A tiny flightless midge which has colonized Antarctica's Signy Island is driving fundamental chan...
Water warming study shows unexpected impact on fish size (May 9, 2023)
The theory that water-breathing animals such as fish will shrink due to global warming has been c...
Beetles and their biodiversity in dead wood (May 9, 2023)
Which energy type promotes the biodiversity of beetles living in dead wood in the forest? That de...
Vanishing glaciers threaten alpine biodiversity (May 4, 2023)
With glaciers melting at unprecedented rates due to climate change, invertebrates that live in th...
'Zero plant extinction' is possible, says plant ecologist (May 2, 2023)
Like animals, many plant species are struggling to adapt to a human-dominated planet. However, pl...
The reasons why insect numbers are decreasing (Apr 27, 2023)
Researchers are investigating the causes and consequences of the worldwide insect decline as well...
Early-nesting ducks at increased risk due to changes in climate, land use (Apr 27, 2023)
Each year approximately 10 million waterfowl fly north to their breeding grounds in the Prairie P...
Ant mounds are more important for biodiversity than previously thought (Apr 27, 2023)
The ant mounds on the heath, in the forest and in your garden are oases for life. The heat and nu...
How the Amazon rainforest is likely to cope with the effect of future drought (Apr 26, 2023)
A major collaboration involving 80 scientists from Europe and South America has identified the re...
Abundance of urban honeybees adversely impacts wild bee populations (Apr 26, 2023)
Researchers argue that the rapid growth in urban honeybee-keeping over the past decade may be neg...
Woodpecker guides post-fire forest management (Apr 25, 2023)
What's good for the Black-backed Woodpecker is good for restoration of burned California forests....
Mysterious underwater acoustic world of British ponds revealed in new study (Apr 25, 2023)
The previously hidden and diverse underwater acoustic world in British ponds has been uncovered b...
Newly sequenced hornet genomes could help explain invasion success (Apr 21, 2023)
The genomes of two hornet species, the European hornet and the Asian hornet (or yellow-legged hor...
The diversity of present tree species is shaped by climate change in the last 21,000 years (Apr 18, 2023)
A new global survey of 1000 forest areas shows how climate change since the peak of the last ice ...
Biological invasions as costly as natural disasters (Apr 18, 2023)
Over the past 40 years, the financial losses caused by biological invasions have been equivalent ...
Coastal species persist on high seas on floating plastic debris (Apr 17, 2023)
The high seas have been colonized by a surprising number of coastal marine invertebrate species, ...
Tastes differ -- even among North Atlantic killer whales (Apr 14, 2023)
Killer whales (also known as orcas) are intelligent predators. While it's known that killer whale...
Wildfires and animal biodiversity (Apr 13, 2023)
Wildfires. Many see them as purely destructive forces, disasters that blaze through a landscape, ...
Professor unearths the ancient fossil plant history of Burnaby Mountain (Apr 13, 2023)
New research led by a paleobotanist provides clues about what plants existed in the Burnaby Mount...
British flower study reveals surprise about plants' sex life (Apr 12, 2023)
A study of Britain's native flowering plants has led to new insights into the mysterious process ...
Trees in areas prone to hurricanes have strong ability to survive even after severe damage (Apr 11, 2023)
The island of Dominica took a direct hit from Category 5 Hurricane Maria. Nine months afterward, ...
Rooting out how plants control nitrogen use (Apr 10, 2023)
Nitrogen is such a crucial nutrient for plants that vast quantities of nitrogen-containing fertil...
In Florida study, nonnative leaf-litter ants are replacing native ants (Apr 7, 2023)
A new look at decades of data from museum collections and surveys of leaf-litter ants in Florida ...
US forests face an unclear future with climate change (Apr 6, 2023)
Climate change might compromise how permanently forests are able to store carbon and keep it out ...
Gone for good? California's beetle-killed, carbon-storing pine forests may not come back (Apr 5, 2023)
Ponderosa pine forests in the Sierra Nevada that were wiped out by western pine beetles during th...
Lifting the veil on disease avoidance strategies in multiple animal species (Apr 5, 2023)
A framework has been developed to test disgust and its associated disease avoidance behaviors acr...
New tool shows progress in fighting spread of invasive grass carp in Great Lakes (Apr 5, 2023)
Researchers created a new way to estimate the abundance of invasive 'sleeper' species in freshwat...
Insect decline also occurs in forests (Apr 4, 2023)
The number of insects has been declining for years. This has already been well documented for agr...
Warming Arctic draws marine predators northwards (Apr 4, 2023)
Marine predators have expanded their ranges into the Arctic waters over the last twenty years, dr...
Researchers assemble pathogen 'tree of life' (Apr 3, 2023)
Researchers provide open-access tool to capture new data on a global plant destroyer, Phytophthora.
How whale shark rhodopsin evolved to see, in the deep blue sea (Mar 29, 2023)
A group of researchers discovered that the rhodopsin -- a protein in the eye that detects light -...
Three newly discovered sea worms that glow in the dark named after creatures from Japanese folklore and marine biologist (Mar 29, 2023)
Researchers have discovered three new species of luminescent Polycirrus worms that emit blue-purp...
Turtles and crocodiles with unique characteristics are more likely to go extinct (Mar 28, 2023)
New study demonstrates that the most endangered turtles and crocodile species are those that have...
What should we call evolution driven by genetic engineering? Genetic welding, says researcher (Mar 28, 2023)
With CRISPR-Cas9 technology, humans can now rapidly change the evolutionary course of animals or ...
Rare beetle, rediscovered after 55 years, named in honor of Jerry Brown (Mar 27, 2023)
While sampling for insects on former California Gov. Jerry Brown's ranch, a University of Califor...
Habitat will dictate whether ground beetles win or lose against climate change (Mar 23, 2023)
The success of North American crops from corn to Christmas trees partly depends on a relatively i...
Towards reducing biodiversity loss in fragmented habitats (Mar 22, 2023)
By combining lab experiments and mathematical modelling, researchers have found a way to predict ...
Sea otters killed by unusual parasite strain (Mar 22, 2023)
An unusually severe form of toxoplasmosis killed four sea otters and could pose a threat to other...
New mosquito species reported in Florida (Mar 22, 2023)
A mosquito known only by its scientific name, Culex lactator, is the latest to establish in the S...