A new international analysis warns that penguin survival hinges on a shift in how science and conservation policy approach climate change: Rather than examining extreme events in isolation, it is their cumulative effects that must […]
A unique long-term study, in which biological samples were collected from the same population of blue tits over a 30-year period, shows that rising spring temperatures have doubled the incidence of avian malaria in southern […]
Peatlands make up just 3% of Earth’s land surface but store more than 30% of the world’s soil carbon, preserving organic matter and sequestering its carbon for tens of thousands of years. A new study […]
Evolutionary biologists have long believed that the human-biting mosquito, Culex pipiens form molestus, evolved from the bird-biting form, Culex pipiens form pipiens, in subways and cellars in northern Europe over the past 200 years. It’s […]
The ocean’s smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate Earth’s thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon. However, a new review published in Science by an international team led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology […]
Late at night on 26 September 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall on Florida’s big bend. The physical damage was devastating and well-documented, but an additional, unseen potential impact lurked underfoot.This post was originally published on […]
McGill researchers who examined the writing skills of teenagers in Montreal found that the performance in French of English–French bilinguals was similar to that of near-monolingual francophones. Bilinguals were defined as teens raised in anglophone […]
When it rains, streams rise. When it stops, they fall.This post was originally published on this site
On Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, gray wolves are doing something unexpected: hunting sea otters. This surprising dietary shift appears to have notable implications for both ecosystems and wolf health, but little is known about […]
Madagascar’s landscape tells a story of deep time: ancient rifting and geological tilting sculpted the island’s dramatic topography and steered its rivers, setting the stage for the evolution of its extraordinary biodiversity.This post was originally […]
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