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#1294082021-06-21
Natural Infrastructure Can Boost the Post-Pandemic Recovery
Mitigating flooding and erosion, sequestering carbon, purifying water and providing a habitat for aquatic species — natural infrastructure projects can add resilience to an economic recovery from COVID-19. They can also create needed jobs.
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#1294122021-06-21
One of the largest ever land mammals evolved into extinct dwarf elephant
An extinct species of dwarf elephant experienced a weight and height reduction of 8,000kg and almost two meters after evolving from one of the largest land mammals that ever lived, a new study has confirmed.
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#1294132021-06-21
Ancient bones provide clues about Kangaroo Island's past and future
A Curtin University-led study of ancient bones on South Australia's Kangaroo Island has provided new information about the Island's past fauna and an insight into how species may live there in the future.
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#1294152021-06-21
An at-risk species of fish has established itself in lochs across Scotland
An at-risk species of fish has established itself in lochs across Scotland with the help of conservation managers and by rapidly adapting to its new environment, resulting in changes to their DNA, their ecology, and body shape, according to a new study.
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#1293642021-06-16
Poison frog tadpoles can survive (almost) anywhere
A group of researchers from the University of Jyväskylä and Stanford University were part of an expedition to French Guiana to study tropical frogs in the Amazon. Amphibian species of this region use ephemeral pools of water as their nurseries and display unique preferences for specific physical ...
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#1293652021-06-16
Counting mammals, birds and dung beetles could be vital for saving the Amazon
The Amazon rainforest holds around 50% of all remaining rainforests on the planet, while hosting more than 400 species of mammal, 1700 species of bird and an unknown number of insect species numbering in the millions.
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#1293662021-06-16
New epiphytic orchid species found in Indonesia
Tuberolabium is a genus of epiphytic flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. The genus comprises of monopodial epiphytes that produce pendent, many- and small-flowered inflorescences.
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#1293152021-06-15
First release of African Penguins at De Hoop Nature Reserve in South Africa
The release of 30 juvenile African Penguins into the wild this week represents a big step forward to re-establish a penguin colony on the south coast of South Africa. BirdLife South Africa, CapeNature and SANCCOB have partnered together in this ambitious attempt to help this Endangered species.
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#1293222021-06-15
Taxonomy: Why 19 ferns are named after Lady Gaga and a bug is named after Brad Pitt
People have long named their pets after celebrities or well-known figures, but scientists do it too - and for good reason. Naming newly-identified species – particularly endangered ones – after a celebrity can give an otherwise unremarkable creature widespread attention, raising awareness of the ...
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#1293282021-06-15
Snails carrying the world's smallest computer help solve mass extinction survivor mystery
More than 50 species of tree snail in the South Pacific Society Islands were wiped out following the introduction of an alien predatory snail in the 1970s, but the white-shelled Partula hyalina survived.
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#1293362021-06-15
Chainsaw-carved trees make perfect homes for marsupial phascogale
As a result of logging and severe bushfires, Australian wildlife is facing a severe shortage of tree hollows—holes in the trunks and branches of large old trees. More than 300 species of birds and mammals, including possums, bats, cockatoos, owls and kookaburras, rely on tree hollows for shelter ...
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#1292852021-06-14
Plastic rafting: the invasive species hitching a ride on ocean litter
Japan’s 2011 tsunami was catastrophic, killing nearly 16,000 people, destroying homes and infrastructure, and sweeping an estimated 5m tons of debris out to sea.
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#1292872021-06-14
CITES Parties gather online to review new tool to boost government-led efforts to reduce demand for illegally sourced wildlife
The demand for illegal wildlife products is one of the leading causes for the decline of many species, including elephants, rhinoceroses, great apes, marine turtles, pangolins, and tigers, but also less known species of flora and fauna such as cycads, rosewoods, seahorses, tortoises, parrots, un ...
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#1292962021-06-14
Barks in the night lead to the discovery of new species
The raucous calls of tree hyraxes—small, herbivorous mammals—reverberate through the night in the forests of West and Central Africa, but their sound differs depending on the location.
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#1293082021-06-14
Biodiversity, Cultures and Languages
The story of the wonders of light is unending. On earth, this story of light begins with photosynthesis, a phenomenon transforming light into life, and spells out as a fascinating diversity of life everywhere and at all levels: on land, in soils, in waters, and at ecosystem, species and genetic ...
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#1292392021-06-11
The biodiversity of the Amazon could be a global granary against the food insecurity of the planet, it says in article – 06/10/2021 – Environment
The biodiversity of the forests in the Amazon and worldwide is not only important as a refuge for native species or as a storage facility for greenhouse gases. It can also be viewed as a global granary that plays an important role in the food security of the planet, say two Brazilian researchers.
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#1292672021-06-11
Funding front-line action for the world's forgotten frogs
Frogs have been around for about 140 million years, since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and are found in most moist corners of the world. IUCN has assessed 6,340 species of these tailless and smooth-bodied amphibians, and almost one in ten of them are classified as Critically Endangered.
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#1292692021-06-11
Why do people support fish species conservation in European rivers?
An important element for the protection of biodiversity is the willingness of the public to support restoration efforts. Using a longitudinal survey design with 1,000 respondents each in Germany, France, Norway and Sweden, scientists led by IGB investigated which values, beliefs and norms promot ...
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#1292182021-06-10
Biodiversity: Why Is It A Corporate Concern?
Biodiversity loss is a global phenomenon. Driven by habitat degradation, climate change, the introduction of invasive species and other anthropogenically induced factors, around one million of the eight million plant and animal species on earth are threatened with extinction. Increasingly, biodi ...
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#1291502021-06-08
Scientists discover that coral 'winners' may now be losers
Examination of thousands of underwater photographs by San Fernando Valley high school students has led to the discovery that a species of Caribbean coral—deemed by marine biologists as a winner in the struggle against natural disasters and warming ocean waters—may now be losing the battle with c ...
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#1291542021-06-08
'Zombie frog' discovered: 3 new species described from the narrow-mouthed frog family
Together with an international team, Senckenberg scientists have described three new frog species from the northern Amazon region. The animals from the genus Synapturanus spend their lives buried underground and are therefore still virtually unexplored.
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#1291652021-06-08
In Gabon, a new partnership for sharks and rays announced on World Ocean Day
The Government of Gabon has passed landmark measures to manage and protect the country’s sharks and rays: over the past decade, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has worked with the Gabon government to identify 69 species in the country’s waters, highlighting the diversity that these measures ...
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#1291662021-06-08
Turning the lights off for a few nights each year could save millions of birds
Turning off your lights at night may mean more than just saving energy. For migrating birds, bright buildings are just another of a long list of threats to their populations. Of the more than one thousand bird species that are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, 92 are listed as endan ...
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#1291672021-06-08
Amazon-dwellers lived sustainably for 5,000 years
A study that dug into the history of the Amazon Rainforest has found that indigenous people lived there for millennia with "causing no detectable species losses or disturbances".
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#1291152021-06-07
More than 50,000 Australian species remain undiscovered. This is how scientists plan to find them
Here are two quiz questions for you. How many species of animals, plants, fungi, fish, insects and other organisms live in Australia? And how many of these have been discovered and named?
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#1291192021-06-07
Endangered bamboo sharks get helping hand in Gulf of Thailand
Rayong Province, Thailand: In the Gulf of Thailand, fisheries researchers use a guideline to scuba dive to the ocean floor where they release baskets full of young bamboo sharks.
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#1291202021-06-07
Flocks of migratory bird land in Chaldoran wetlands
In this season, Chaldoran wetlands welcome migratory birds due to having adequate food and security, Reza Kheiri, head of the province’s department of environment said, IRIB reported on Saturday.
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#1291262021-06-07
Study shows it took the Amazon as we know it over 6 million years to form
The asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed more than 75% of all species on Earth, including all non-avian dinosaurs, triggered an ecological catastrophe that took the neotropical rainforests around 6 million years to recover from, according to a recent study published in Science.
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#1291282021-06-07
The invasion of the Asian killer hornet: is it here to stay?
Vespa velutina is included in the Spanish Catalog of Invasive Alien Species and the consequences of its establishment in Spain are ecological, economic and on human health. However, it is necessary to emphasize that the Asian wasp is no more dangerous than its European counterparts
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#1291292021-06-07
Tiny invasive beetle threatens millions of trees in South Africa
The tiny polyphagous shot hole borer and its associated fungus looks set to become the most damaging biological invasion in South Africa’s urban environments, warns the country’s latest report on biological invasions.
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#1291322021-06-07
Meet Australia's largest dinosaur: Australotitan, the southern titan
What's as long a basketball court, taller than a b-double and has just stomped into the record books as Australia's largest dinosaur? It's time to meet Australotitan cooperensis—a new species of giant sauropod dinosaur from Eromanga, southwest Queensland.
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#1291332021-06-07
Honey bee sting: Key aspect of bee defense against hornets
Heat balling is an ingenious defense that has co-evolved to protect multiple honey bee species from hornet predators. Previous studies have shown that high temperature, increased concentration of CO2, and blockage of the hornet's respiratory system contribute to hornet death.
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#1291342021-06-07
New marine scale worm species first to provide evidence of male dwarfism
In the Kumano Sea, off the southeast coast of Japan, an evolutionary mystery lays in wait. Researchers have collected samples from the muddy sea floor, including hermit crabs, mollusks and discarded shells. Here, in and on these shells, they found scale worms living mostly in pairs with a striki ...
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#1291382021-06-07
Climate change: world’s lakes are in hot water – threatening rare wildlife
The Earth’s surface is splotched with 117 million lakes. Some are scarcely more than ponds, while others are so big they can be seen from space. At 395 miles long, 49 miles wide and just over 1 mile deep, Lake Baikal in Siberia is one of the world’s largest and it’s home to 2,500 species, includ ...
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#1291422021-06-07
First global statistical analysis of harmful algal blooms
The first-ever global statistical analysis of trends in harmful algal blooms (HABs) has shown that, worldwide, there is no significant increase in HABs events, but that in some regions, events that include toxic species of algae affecting humans and wildlife are on the rise.
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#1290542021-06-04
Lake habitats are disappearing as the climate changes
Global warming is increasing the temperatures of lakes worldwide—are species finding the temperatures they need to survive? Researchers led by scientists at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have quantified the long-term temperature changes in 139 lakes world ...
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#5964Twenty-fifth meeting of the Plants Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
2 - 4 June 2021, Online, Switzerland
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#1289962021-06-02
Tree choices important for addressing climate change
Tree species in Africa’s upland mountain rainforests can adapt both photosynthesis and leaf metabolism to warming. But the ability to do so varies from species to species, according to studies from a new doctoral dissertation.
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#1289972021-06-02
Freshwater: Securing our future
Water, soil, air and species biodiversity are what create ecosystems. The earth’s ecosystems sustain all human activity, including economic activity.
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#1290062021-06-02
After being driven to near extinction, wolves are back in Washington. Can we coexist with them?
They walked in on their own: The first wolves in more than 100 years known to call Washington state home, after this native species was nearly wiped out by hunting, trapping and government extermination campaigns.
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#1290092021-06-02
Migratory flamingos offer visual feast in Turkey's Izmir
Hundreds of flamingos in western Turkey have started returning to an artificial island built as an incubation site for its pink-plumed visitors.
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#1290102021-06-02
Migratory Bird Tagged in Mumbai by Researchers Sighted 4,500-km Away in China
A Curlew Sandpiper tagged in Mumbai by Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has been spotted in the Tianjin province of China, around 4,500 kms away, marking a significant achievement in studying bird migration, officials said here on Wednesday.
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#1290112021-06-02
Human activity disturbs quiet habitat of black-necked cranes in Arunachal Pradesh
Locally known as Thung Thung Karmu, the black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis) is not simply a bird but an emotion for the inhabitants of Sangti and Zemithang valleys in Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India.
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#1290132021-06-02
Key species at risk if planet heats up by more than 1.5C, report finds
Corals will bleach, penguins will lose their Antarctic ice floes, puffins around the UK coast will be unable to feed their young, and the black-headed squirrel monkey of the Amazon could be wiped out if the world fails to limit global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
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#1290172021-06-02
Rivers are key to restoring the world’s biodiversity
In October 2021, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will meet in China to adopt a new post-2020 global biodiversity framework to reverse biodiversity loss and its impacts on ecosystems, species and people. The conference is being held during a moment of great urgency: According to a re ...
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#1290182021-06-02
Mapping Australia's undiscovered biodiversity has big economic benefits
A new report by Deloitte Access Economics has found every $1 invested in discovering all remaining Australian species will bring up to $35 of economic benefits to the nation.
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#1290202021-06-02
Extreme climate events may see alien species in India
A recent paper by Indian scientists from the University of Kerala in the journal ‘Biological Invasions’ has warned that extreme climate events may aid the spread of alien species in biodiversity hotspots in the country.
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#1290262021-06-02
About 500,000 Australian species are undiscovered: The 25-year mission to finish the job
Here are two quiz questions for you. How many species of animals, plants, fungi, fish, insects and other organisms live in Australia? And how many of these have been discovered and named?
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#1289512021-06-01
Invasive species a danger to South Africa’s biodiversity, says Creecy
Cape Town - Invasive species are the third-largest threat to South Africa’s biodiversity after cultivation and land degradation, according to a report released by Forestry, Fisheries and Environmental Affairs Minister Barbara Creecy in Cape Town on Friday.
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#1289522021-06-01
Bangladesh arrests suspect believed to have killed 70 tigers
Bangladeshi police have arrested a suspected wildlife poacher believed to have killed at least 70 endangered Bengal tigers in more than two decades, police said.