Bioacoustics can’t fully replace ecology fieldwork, but can provide reams of data that would be extremely expensive to collect by merely sending scientists to remote areas for long stretches of time. With bioacoustic instruments, researchers must return to collect the data and swap batteries, but otherwise the technology can work uninterrupted for years. “Scaling sampling … Read more
Southern Europe is not so different. Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal never had collective farms, but the inexorable aging of their populations and the exodus of young people to cities is emptying villages and leaving fields and pastures untended. Francesco Cherubini of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology calculates that in the past three … Read more
Suddenly, Franks realized she had another meeting to get to, and here she was in a room full of free-ranging rats. She couldn’t just open the door and leave—rats would surely escape. But catching each rat and putting it back into the hutch would take forever. “I think, you know, we should probably get them … Read more
This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Parasitic, elusive, and emitting an overwhelming odor of putrefying flesh, Rafflesia—often called the corpse flower—has intrigued botanists for centuries. Now, scientists are warning that it is at risk of extinction and calling for action to save it. The blooms of … Read more
This story initially appeared in Excessive Nation Information and is a part of the Local weather Desk collaboration. The primary grainy movie clip exhibits a black bear exploding out of the path digital camera’s body. In one other, a mule deer stops munching wildflowers, backs away, and takes off in the other way. In a … Read more
This story initially appeared on Inside Local weather Information and is a part of the Local weather Desk collaboration. Seabirds advanced about 60 million years in the past, as Earth’s continents drifted towards their present positions and fashionable oceans took form. They unfold throughout 1000’s of undisturbed islands within the widening seas. And as flying … Read more
“My view is that the US commerce [in hippo parts] is essentially a byproduct of different causes for killing,” says Crawford Allan, a wildlife commerce skilled with the World Wildlife Fund. In Africa, he says, “no person wastes something. So when you kill an animal as a result of it’s a hazard to your group, … Read more