Bee populations are declining worldwide, raising concerns of a “pollination crisis.” Scientists have identified links to many human-induced environmental stressors, including…
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Conservation Bees and Environmental Stressors: Canaries in the Coal Mine
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Climate Change Fanged Coral Fish’s Venomous Bite Could Lead to New Pain Treatments
The fearless coral reef fish known as the fang blenny might only grow to several inches long, but it packs a toothy…
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Biodiversity The Science of Spring
I have to admit, at first I didn’t really notice. I live in Virginia, a state in the approximate middle of the…
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Conservation Roads Have Significant Evolutionary Consequences for Wildlife
Over the past several decades, the field of road ecology has documented many of the negative effects of roads on plants and…
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Biodiversity Average Distance to the Nearest Forest is Increasing with Forest Loss in the US
During the 1990s, over 90,000 square kilometers of forest cover in the continental United States were lost—an approximate decline in coverage of…
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Biodiversity Counting Songbirds With Drones
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, also known as drones) are rapidly finding a place in ecological research. In a new study from The…
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Climate Change Changing Our Attitudes Towards Invasive “Alien” Species
Above, zebra mussels on a native mussel; it has been estimated that invasive zebra mussels have cost Canada and the United States…
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Biodiversity What’s so “bad” about the Badlands, anyway?
Authorized as a National Monument in 1929 and redesignated as a National Park in 1978, Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota…
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Citizen Science Citizen Science and Tequila Help Bring an Endangered Bat Back From the Brink
Collaborative conservation efforts, including research, bat-friendly tequila production, and citizen science, have led to the recovery of an endangered southwest bat. Last…
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Biodiversity The Grey Zone: Napoleon Dynamite and what makes a species
When most people think of a species they assume it is a unique, inviolate category of organism. Most of us learned in…
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Climate Change Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change: NOAA and AMS Issue Annual Report
The attribution of extreme events to human-induced climate change—what is termed anthropogenic climate change—has been a burgeoning scientific frontier as scientists grapple…
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Biodiversity Wild Thoughts on the Wild
A guest post from Dr. Anita George, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane Australia People love learning about…