Tag: habitat loss
Giraffes range across diverse African habitats − we’re using GPS, satellites...
Michael Brown, Smithsonian Institution
Nearly 6,000 years ago, our ancestors climbed arid rocky outcrops in what is now the...
Human activities in Asia have reduced elephant habitat by nearly two-thirds...
Shermin de Silva, University of California, San Diego
Despite their iconic status and long association with humans, Asian elephants...
Bees face many challenges – and climate change is ratcheting up...
Jennie L. Durant, University of California, Davis
The extreme weather that has battered much of the U.S. in 2022...
Monarch butterflies join the Red List of endangered species, thanks to...
Kristen A. Baum, Oklahoma State University
On July 21, 2022, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature placed...
Africa’s 2 elephant species are both endangered, due to poaching and...
George Wittemyer, Colorado State University
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Humans have been over-exploiting African elephants for centuries....
One of Earth’s most biodiverse habitats lies off the Scottish west...
Heidi Burdett, Heriot-Watt University and Cornelia Simon-Nutbrown, Heriot-Watt University
Maerl beds stud the ocean floor like underwater brambles. They’re pastel pink and, despite their knobbly...
We train Colombian woolly monkeys to be wild again – and...
Mónica Alejandra Ramírez, Universidad de los Andes ; Manuel Lequerica Tamara, University of Sydney, and Pablo Stevenson, Universidad de los Andes
Colombia’s Andes Mountains...
The Trump administration’s new migratory bird policy undermines a century of...
Amanda Rodewald, Cornell University
The Trump administration has announced a position on protecting migratory birds that is a drastic pullback from policies in force for...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
