Canada’s UNESCO Sites Hold Most of Its Species and a Quarter of Its Indigenous Languages
A new spatial analysis finds that Canada's 35 UNESCO sites, covering under five percent of the country, contain the ranges ...
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Britain’s Hedgehogs Have Collapsed in the Countryside While Urban Populations Hold On
A landmark analysis of five national monitoring schemes reveals rural hedgehog numbers in Britain have fallen by up to 70 ...
Rare Species May Be Safer Than They Look: Dispersal Diversity Shields Forests From Extinction
A statistical-physics framework applied to three forest censuses shows that dispersal diversity, rather than abundance alone, buffers species against competitive ...
Thousands of Amateur Photos Weave a Global Map of Who Eats Whom
A new citizen science project called Who Eats Whom has turned thousands of iNaturalist photographs into a searchable global food ...
Smarter Fuel Breaks: New Optimization Model Fights Wildfire While Protecting Caribou Routes
Researchers have developed a network optimization model that places fuel breaks to minimize wildfire spread while safeguarding woodland caribou migration ...
Wild elephants flex a vocabulary of more than 40 gestures to say move away and stop
A new study in Animal Cognition reports that wild African savannah elephants intentionally use more than 40 gesture types, flexibly ...
What Surrounds the Rice Field Matters More Than What Happens Inside It
A two-year study of rain-fed rice fields in Guinea-Bissau finds that the structure of the surrounding landscape, not local field ...
Monoculture Farms Are Silently Cutting Off West Africa’s Guinea Baboons
A landmark landscape genetics study of 243 Guinea baboons reveals that intensive monoculture farming severs gene flow across West Africa, ...
New Open-Access Journal PLOS Ecosystems Aims to Unite Science Against the Biodiversity Crisis
The new open-access journal PLOS Ecosystems launches with an editorial arguing that fragmented publishing has hindered the response to the ...
Climate Change Could Squeeze Out Himalayan Rhubarb, Study Warns
A new survey and MaxEnt modeling study finds that Himalayan rhubarb in the Western Himalayas faces grazing-driven degradation today and ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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