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Invasive species could reap benefits from extreme weather
Nov 06, 2023 (AFP)
Invasive species, often transported by human activity, are thought to be playing a major role in global extinction rates and the catastrophic declines of biodiv...
Scientists weigh in on what happens when cats get fat
Nov 02, 2023 (SPX)
"About 60% of cats in the U.S. are overweight, which can lead to health problems such as diabetes and chronic inflammation. While many studies have investigated...
For the sunflower, turning toward the sun requires multiple complex systems
Nov 01, 2023 (SPX)
Because plants are rooted in place, they can't get up and move when a neighbor blocks their light or they find themselves sprouting in a shady spot. Instead, th...
Australia to restart 'essential' aerial shooting of wild horses
Oct 27, 2023 (AFP)
An estimated 19,000 wild horses -- known locally as "brumbies" -- live in Kosciuszko National Park, a number that has increased by a third in the last two years...
Netflix and Spielberg combine for nature doc 'Life on Our Planet'
Oct 24, 2023 (AFP)
Streaming globally from Wednesday, the show's eight episodes transport viewers through Earth's five previous mass extinction events, each recreated with compute...
Life on Earth under 'existential threat': climate scientists
Oct 24, 2023 (AFP)
With expectations that 2023 will be the hottest year on record, regions across the planet have been scorched by deadly heat waves. Others have been hit by flood...
Keep or cull? Romania divided over its bear population
Oct 23, 2023 (AFP)
"It's amazing," said Mike, a 72-year-old Israeli tourist. "I thought it might be dead." But the bear was just taking a rest after a sandwich, one of many thrown...
How to help save plants from extinction
Oct 19, 2023 (SPX)
Published in the Oxford Academic journal Conservation Physiology, the paper demonstrates how scientists can learn the limits past which plants' vital functions ...
To find out how wildlife is doing, scientists try listening
Oct 18, 2023 (AFP)
The recording from the forest in Ecuador is part of new research looking at how artificial intelligence could track animal life in recovering habitats. When sci...
Leading scientists, philosophers identify nature's missing evolutionary law
Oct 17, 2023 (SPX)
In essence, the new law states that complex natural systems evolve to states of greater patterning, diversity, and complexity. In other words, evolution is not ...
Thousands of programmable DNA-cutters found in algae, snails, and other organisms
Oct 17, 2023 (SPX)
"RNA-guided biology is what lets you make programmable tools that are really easy to use. So the more we can find, the better," says McGovern Fellow Omar Abuday...
Climate catastrophe produced instantaneous evolutionary change
Oct 16, 2023 (SPX)
"With the profound and rapid changes we're seeing with the environment, movement is becoming critical for species' survival," said Rice University evolutionary ...
Kazakhstan authorises hunting of Saiga antelopes
Oct 16, 2023 (AFP)
The government says there are currently around two million Saiga antelopes. Once threatened with extinction, the antelopes are still on the red list of the Inte...
'Cuter in real life': South Korea names its twin panda 'treasures'
Oct 12, 2023 (AFP)
The female cubs -- named Rui Bao, or "wise treasure", and Hui Bao, "shining treasure" -- were born at the Everland theme park near the capital Seoul on July 7, ...
Hypergravity odyssey of Earth's tiniest plant
Oct 09, 2023 (ESA)
Based at ESA's ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands, the LDC is an 8 m-diameter four-arm centrifuge that gives researchers access to a range of hypergravit...
Injured tortoises make slow recovery from Greece fires
Oct 09, 2023 (AFP)
The healing process is going well, the vet noted. The burnt skin has fallen off and the tortoise can soon be released back into its natural habitat. Even though...
Elephant slaughtered and eaten in DR Congo
Oct 09, 2023 (AFP)
Militias have plagued eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for three decades, a legacy of regional wars that flared in the 1990s and 2000s. The vast expanse of ...
AI of the tiger: Tiny camera 'protects' predator -- and people
Oct 05, 2023 (AFP)
They are increasingly finding solutions with artificial intelligence, a bunch of technologies designed to reason and make decisions like humans. Experts from Cl...
Climate change primary driver of amphibian decline: study
Oct 04, 2023 (AFP)
Frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and other cold-blooded creatures living in moist settings are acutely vulnerable to changes in their environment. As they breat...
Not so black and white? Panda fibs fuel anti-US vibe in China
Oct 03, 2023 (AFP)
Evidence-free claims that pandas have been abused at US zoos have ricocheted across Chinese social media in recent months, fanning anti-American perceptions ami...
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