Tag: introduced species
Drones, physics and rats: Studies show how the people of Rapa...
Carl Lipo, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed...
Is ‘Toadzilla’ a sign of enormous cane toads to come? It’s...
Lin Schwarzkopf, James Cook University
Last week, the world met “Toadzilla”, a cane toad the size of a football...
Figs show that nonnative species can invade ecosystems by forming unexpected...
Jared Bernard, University of Hawaii
While surveying the Hawaiian island of Kauai in search of invasive plants in 2017, botanist Kelsey Brock spotted something unusal:...
‘Bee-washing’ hurts bees and misleads consumers
Lila Westreich, University of Washington
Amid the worry over the loss of honey bees, a far quieter but just as devastating loss is occurring among...
EXPLORING NATURE
6 myths about rural America: How conventional wisdom gets it wrong
Tim Slack, Louisiana State University and Shannon M. Monnat, Syracuse University
Roughly 1 in 5 Americans live in rural...
