Tag: Wildlife
As Arctic sea ice shrinks, new research shows how much energy...
Anthony Pagano, University of California, Santa Cruz
Polar bears live in a remote and inhospitable environment far from most human settlements. For most biologists, opportunities...
Human noise pollution is disrupting parks and wild places
Rachel Buxton, Colorado State University
As transportation networks expand and urban areas grow, noise from sources such as vehicle engines is spreading into remote places....
Even ugly animals can win hearts and dollars to save them...
Diogo Veríssimo, Johns Hopkins University and Bob Smith, University of Kent
The Earth is home to millions of species, but you wouldn’t know it from...
Will optimistic stories get people to care about nature?
Diogo Veríssimo, Georgia State University
Nature doesn’t make the news often these days. When it does, the story usually revolves around wildlife on...
Scientist at work: Tracking muskoxen in a warming Arctic
Joel Berger, Colorado State University
Our Earth has unimaginable diversity, from seascapes 8,000 meters below the ocean’s surface to landscapes 8,000 meters above it. Its...
When birds go roaming: The mystery of avian irruptions
Archer Larned, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Sarah Luttrell, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
In North America when the leaves start to fall and...
At Chernobyl and Fukushima, radioactivity has seriously harmed wildlife
Timothy A. Mousseau, University of South Carolina
The largest nuclear disaster in history occurred 30 years ago at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what...
The trouble with using synthetic rhino horn to stop poaching
Diogo Veríssimo, Georgia State University
In 2014, one rhino was killed every eight hours. That was in South Africa alone, where most of the world’s...
EXPLORING NATURE
Get chronic UTIs? Future treatments may add more bacteria to your...
Sarguru Subash, Texas A&M University
Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world suffer from urinary tract...
