The latest wildlife, ecology and conservation news
Olivia Norfolk, Anglia Ruskin University It’s no secret that bee populations are in decline across the UK and Europe. There has also been a fantastic increase in public awareness over the past few...
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Henry Chapman, University of Birmingham; Ben Gearey, University College Cork; Jane Bunting, University of Hull; Kimberley Davies, Plymouth University, and Nicola Whitehouse, Plymouth University Peat bogs, which cover 3% of the world’s land...
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A new study demonstrates that the recent mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef was not restricted to shallow depths, but also affected deep reefs. Although deep reefs are often considered a...
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Scientists have discovered that beluga whales and narwhals go through the menopause – taking the total number of species known to experience this to five. Aside from humans, the species now known to...
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Parrots have learned how to trade a token for food: one each for a low, medium or high-value food. The task was to choose between an instant food reward and a token that...
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There are a couple of key features that make a turtle a turtle: its shell, for one, but also its toothless beak. A newly-discovered fossil turtle that lived 228 million years ago is...
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Jared Piazza, Lancaster University The BuzzFeed video, “Bacon lovers meet baby pigs” is amusing to watch. With 14,493,383 views, you may have seen it. It depicts several young men and women waiting blissfully...
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Citizen science projects are becoming ever more popular, with new applications developed all the time. Conservation charities are not being left behind in this field, with more and more opportunities for enthusiastic and...
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Yesterday, MCS announced an exciting partnership with company Silentnight, to transform some of the million plastic bottles bought every minute, into mattresses. The UK’s leading marine charity, The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has...
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By James Watson, The University of Queensland; James Allan, The University of Queensland; Kendall Jones, The University of Queensland; Pablo Negret, The University of Queensland; Richard Fuller, The University of Queensland, and Sean Maxwell,...
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