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“#A few months ago, science gave this rare lizard a name, and it may already be headed for extinction” Credit: Australian Museum Bushfires are a threat to most animal species. But for one rare lizard living on a rocky island in the sky, a single blaze could wipe the species off the planet. The Kaputar…
“#This plucky little fish survived Black Summer, but there’s worse to come” Credit: Tarmo A. Raadik On a coastal holiday last summer, I was preoccupied. Bushfires were tearing through southeast Australia, and one in particular had me worried. Online maps showed it moving towards the last remaining population of a plucky little fish, the stocky…
“#Our helicopter rescue may seem a lot of effort for a plain little bird, but it was worth it” A Chinook helicopter, with the bristlebird field team on board, lands in far eastern Victoria. Credit: Tony Mitchell As we stepped out of a military helicopter on Victoria’s east coast in February, smoke towered into the…
“#New models show how species will be relocated by climate change” The PBGJAM web portal harnesses the power of big data to project where thousands of species will be forced to relocate in coming years as climate change makes their present habitats unsuitable. Here, it forecasts a sharp northward migration for meadow voles, a key…
“#Like humans, beluga whales form social networks beyond family ties” The study, led by FAU’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, is the first to analyze the relationship between group behaviors, group type, group dynamics, and kinship in beluga whales. Credit: NOAA A groundbreaking study using molecular genetic techniques and field studies brings together decades of research…
“#To bring back endangered fish, this First Nation is claiming environmental management authority” Eulachon can be sun-dried, but this is only one of many ways to process the nutritious fish. Credit: Brodie Guy Over 20 years ago, the Bella Coola River—located in southern British Columbia and central to the traditional territory of the Nuxalk Nation—saw…
“#Smaller farm fields can reduce biodiversity loss and increase wild plants, birds, beetles, and bats” Smaller farmers fields can be beneficial to wild species. Credit: Shutterstock Around the world, biodiversity is dropping precipitously. In North America, about three billion birds have been lost over recent decades and amphibian populations are declining at a rate of…
“#Detection of electrical signaling between tomato plants raises interesting questions” Dr. Yuri Shtessel and Dr. Alexander Volkov studied electrical signal propagation between tomato plants. Credit: University of Alabama in Huntsville The soil beneath our feet is alive with electrical signals being sent from one plant to another, according to research in which a University of…
“#Q&A: A magnificent new sponge from the deep gets a name” Scientists used a powerful scanning electron microscope (SEM) to get the detailed image on the left of the sponge’s spicules; in the image, the spiky tips of the spicule are about 20 micrometers across. Because sponge spicules are delicate and sometimes not complete, SEM…
“#The next trend in food: Edible insects?” Credit: UC Santa Barbara You might not have known, but a lot of people think you should be eating insects. Their arguments are legion: Edible bugs are better for the environment and can help slow climate change, they can alleviate malnutrition and ease food insecurity. Also, they’re delicious….