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In a recent study published in Forest Ecosystems, a team of researchers in China collected data from 1,076 sample plots of Pinus sylvestris plantations across the boreal zone of China.This post was originally published on […]

Oregon State University researchers are part of a team looking at reducing bird collision risks with wind turbines by painting a single blade of the turbine black.This post was originally published on this site

Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Dan Crowley from Cornell University […]

The Kalamaili Mountain Ungulate Wildlife Nature Reserve (KNR) in Xinjiang is home to several endangered ungulate species, including 80% of khulan in China, as well as nearly 10,000 goitered gazelles.This post was originally published on […]

Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada’s massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that’s on a low fat, low ice diet because of climate change.This post was originally […]

Planting and maintaining a border of trees around agricultural fields will help a family of flies that, in turn, is important to crops, according to a recent University of Alberta study.This post was originally published […]

Until a few years ago, the butterfly known as the southern small white could barely be found north of the Alps. That was before a Europe-wide invasion that brought a huge increase in the insect’s […]

The Eiffinger’s tree frog (Kurixalus eiffingeri), found on Ishigaki and Iriomote islands in Japan, has a unique biological adaptation: its tadpoles do not defecate during their early developmental stages. This finding by researchers at Nagoya […]

Coral reefs will continue to experience severe heat stress as rising temperatures cause the oceans to become unbearably hot—but a new study shows that altering their feeding habits could allow local populations to avoid total […]

Instead of nurturing their sick young, ant queens eat their infected offspring at the first sign of illness then “recycle” them into energy to produce new eggs, a new study led by the University of […]