From pollinating flowers to enabling decomposition and supporting nutrient cycles, insects' abundance and biodiversity are critical for maintaining healthy ecosystems. However, recent studies showing population declines have ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2025
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Endangered Pacific pocket mice, native to Southern California, were once thought to be extinct until a tiny remnant population was rediscovered in the mid-1990s.
Plants & Animals
Aug 21, 2025
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For many endangered species, population decline to the brink of extinction leads to inbreeding, exposing a species to deleterious recessive mutations that severely limit its potential to recover. But the red-headed wood pigeon, ...
Ecology
Aug 14, 2025
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A University of the Sunshine Coast-led study has uncovered evidence that sex reversal is more common in wild birds than previously thought—with potential implications for threatened species.
Plants & Animals
Aug 13, 2025
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Maine's coastal communities have been hooked on the Atlantic bluefin tuna since at least the late 1880s—first as bycatch, until the 1930s when the fish became a prized target in fishing tournaments. Through the subsequent ...
Ecology
Aug 11, 2025
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The established conservation practice of relocating animals from large, genetically diverse populations to small communities of inbred endangered species may risk introducing more damaging than beneficial gene variants into ...
Ecology
Aug 6, 2025
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A recent study published in the International Journal of Digital Earth offers the first city-level analysis of urban sustainability trends across over 7,000 urban centers in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) region.
Environment
Jul 31, 2025
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Pronatalism—the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed—is having a moment in the U.S.
Social Sciences
Jul 28, 2025
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Beatriz Swanson can remember the first time she saw the blinking glow. She was 10 years old, growing up in Mexico, when two fireflies appeared in front of her, floating away before she could carefully capture them in her ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 18, 2025
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Steven Spielberg's Jaws opened across North America on June 20, 1975, and immediately tapped into the primal human fear of being hunted by a huge, savvy predator.
Ecology
Jun 20, 2025
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