By Emily O’Connor, Lund University Animals have a habit of moving. Sometimes these movements are truly epic. Migratory birds regularly traverse the globe between temperate and tropical regions, a feat that would require considerable...
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Scientists have shown for the first time that the blueprint for the four chambers of the human heart exists in the humble zebrafish, a study in eLife reports. The discovery provides key insights into processes...
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April 22, 1970. 20 million American citizens take to the streets, parks, public buildings and anywhere else that will house them to publicly demonstrate their contempt for their governments current environmental policy, to...
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Orcas on the Edge: A quest to film the critically endangered southern residents The Issue The southern resident killer whales (SRKW) represent the smallest of four groups of orca found in the northwest...
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75% of the worlds crops are dependent on pollination in some way or another. Despite the volume of pollinator-dependent crops increasing 300% in the last 40 years, there is growing concern about the...
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I wanted to do this article aside from it’s mention in the media recently, but actually due to a prompt realisation I had as I was sat in a meeting the other day,...
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Populations of wild deer on the Isle of Wight have fluctuated since their re-appearance there after the end of the last ice age, with an apparent decline at the end of the 18th...
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Roughly 10,000 species go extinct every year. With this in mind, deciding where to put efforts or which species to save will always be a tricky question. However, the recent attention on bee...
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The graceful Dugong. Jin Kemoole/Flickr, CC BY-ND By Leanne Cullen-Unsworth, Cardiff University; Benjamin L. Jones, Cardiff University, and Richard K.F. Unsworth, Swansea University From knowing where animals live, to which plants provide what...
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I’m moving away from my usual amphibian/reptile conservation based posts to talk about something I feel is very important, so I will keep it short. It may be no surprise to some of...
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