Nature’s Soundtrack Reveals the Secrets of Degradation
[ad_1] Digital listening is becoming the most powerful new scientific tool for observing and preserving our natural environment. From the Arctic to the Amazon, scientists are covering the globe with…
Florida Is Fighting to Feed Starving Manatees This Winter
[ad_1] Few vignettes show how much human activity has affected wildlife more than the scene at Florida Power & Light’s plant in Cape Canaveral. Hundreds of manatees bask in an…
This Christmas, It’s ‘Firmageddon’ as Climate Change Hits Oregon
[ad_1] This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientists have discovered a record number of dead fir trees in Oregon, a foreboding…
The Secret Life of Plant Killers
[ad_1] When you hunt the tree of heaven, you come to know it by its smell. A waft of creamy peanut butter leads you to a tall trunk, silvery and nubbled…
The ‘30×30’ Conservation Goal Divides and Inspires at COP15
[ad_1] But others question the mentality of those trying to enforce it—even if it looks good on paper. Lakpa Nuri Sherpa, who is from Nepal, and represents the Asia Indigenous…
Park Rangers Are Using Silent Ebikes to Catch Poachers
[ad_1] At the end of 2021, a group of night poachers in a Mozambique national park—using torchlight to blind antelopes—were suddenly the ones left stunned in the dark. The poachers,…
America’s Billion-Dollar Tree Problem Is Spreading
[ad_1] Fast-growing, drought-tolerant trees are slowly spreading across grasslands on every continent except Antarctica. Given how desperate we are to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, millions of new saplings sprouting…
New Mexico’s Beloved Pinyon Jay Is Losing Its Pine Habitat
[ad_1] The petition contains the first estimate of total acreage of piñon-juniper habitat currently treated by the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service in states with pinyon…
Rats Are Invasive Menaces. These Cameras Spy on Them
[ad_1] Off the coast of Southern California, amid a literal sea of troubles—warming waters, microplastic pollution, overfishing—is a 96-square-mile conservation success story. Santa Cruz Island once teemed with feral pigs…
How Scientists Are Cleaning Up Rivers Using Grasses and Oysters
[ad_1] One hundred miles north of Philadelphia, the Billion Oyster Project has been restoring the bivalves in New York Harbor since 2010, engaging more than 10,000 volunteers and 6,000 students…
The Double Life of the Bloodsucking Sea Lamprey
[ad_1] Michigan State University has several labs dedicated to the study and control of lampreys, which make for idiosyncratic subjects. Lamprey skeletons are constructed of cartilage rather than bone, and…
The UK Is Reintroducing Bison to Supercharge Biodiversity
[ad_1] The Wilder Blean project, like many of its ilk, is inspired largely by the work of Dutch ecologist Frans Vera. In his influential book Grazing Ecology and Forest History,…