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Nature favors creatures in largest and smallest sizes
May 11, 2023 (SPX)
The researchers spent five years compiling and analyzing data about the size and biomass of every type of living organism on the planet-from tiny one-celled org...
Australia told to shoot kangaroos before they starve
May 10, 2023 (AFP)
To outsiders, the kangaroo is an instantly-recognisable symbol of the Australian wilderness, but within the country the native animal poses a major environmenta...
Largest debt-for-Nature conversion to benefit Ecuador's Galapagos Islands
May 09, 2023 (AFP)
The deal, converting its debt into a $656 million loan financed by a Credit Suisse-structured "Galapagos Marine Bond" for the same amount, cut the South America...
Why mosses are vital for the health of our soil and Earth
May 03, 2023 (SPX)
Now a massive global study led by UNSW Sydney has found mosses are not just good for the garden, but are just as vital for the health of the entire planet when ...
Charles the 'green king' harnesses love of nature for UK coronation
May 03, 2023 (AFP)
As an environment radical long before Greta Thunberg castigated world leaders for "30 years of blah, blah, blah", green issues from climate change to biodiversi...
Zero plant extinction is possible, says plant ecologist
May 03, 2023 (SPX)
"There is no technical reason why any known plant species should go extinct," writes plant ecologist Richard T. Corlett of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical ...
Colombia grapples with Escobar's hippopotamus legacy
May 02, 2023 (AFP)
However, in a town close to the city of Medellin, this legacy of the late drug baron Pablo Escobar, is increasingly posing a problem, and one that experts think...
Life on land and water teeters between haves and have-nots
May 02, 2023 (SPX)
Progress in oceans actually slowed after the United Nations member states adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. That action aims to facilitate g...
How to untangle a worm ball: Mathematicians solve a knotty mystery
May 01, 2023 (SPX)
Found in marshes, ponds, and other shallow waters, California blackworms (Lumbriculus variegatus) twist and curl around each other by the thousands, forming tig...
India captures rice-raiding elephant after six killed
Apr 30, 2023 (AFP)
The male elephant -- dubbed Arikomban, or "rice-tusker" -- was infamous for raiding shops for rice and grains in the southern state of Kerala. On Saturday, a te...
New Zealand fights to save its flightless national bird
Apr 29, 2023 (AFP)
Visitors to New Zealand a millennium ago would have encountered a bona fide "birdtopia" -- islands teeming with feathered creatures fluttering through life unaw...
The reasons why insect numbers are decreasing
Apr 28, 2023 (SPX)
"As evidence of an on-going global crash in insect populations increased over the last few years, we decided it was time to edit and publish this special issue....
Pythons on your porch? Call Myanmar's 'Snake Princess'
Apr 27, 2023 (AFP)
It was just another day in the life of Myanmar's premier snake removal squad, prising pythons and cajoling cobras from dangerous entanglements with the human wo...
South African rhino-lover seeks for billionaire successor
Apr 24, 2023 (AFP)
Today, at 81, his money is all but gone, and South African conservationist John Hume is throwing in the towel. Later this week, Hume will auction off his rhino ...
Five ways open science is transforming NASA research and protecting our planet
Apr 24, 2023 (SPX)
By sharing research findings and data publicly, NASA is enabling scientists and the public to develop new insights, tools, and strategies for protecting the env...
African penguins: climate refugees from a distant past?
Apr 24, 2023 (SPX)
Now imagine sea levels rising up to a hundred metres between fifteen to seven thousand years ago, gradually covering these large islands until only small hill t...
Beaver ponds with deeper sediments store more nitrogen, simple mapping reveals
Apr 24, 2023 (SPX)
The study was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, which publishes research on the interactions between biologic, geologic and chem...
Romania aims to triple bear culls to address 'overpopulation'
Apr 20, 2023 (AFP)
The proposal is based on a recent estimate by Romania's ministry of environment that puts the number of bears in the country at approximately 7,500 to 8,000. An...
Thailand's Panda on loan from China dies aged 21; Ailing Pakistan elephant collapses
Apr 19, 2023 (AFP)
Lin Hui was the last of three pandas in Thailand and had lived in an air-conditioned enclosure at Chiang Mai Zoo since 2003, but was due to return to China in O...
California bursts into 'super bloom' after wet winter
Apr 13, 2023 (AFP)
Vast stretches of countryside that spend months of the year as a muted, dry brown have been transformed into a carpet of color that can be seen from space. "It ...
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