4+ hour, 9+ min ago  (170+ words) The British Ecological Society explains: Our results indicate that forests growing over shallow water tables'relatively under-studied vegetation that nonetheless occupies one-third of Amazon forests'are remarkably resistant to drought. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that local hydrology and its…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (215+ words) Our World In Data'explains: Humans have been reshaping the planet's land for millennia by clearing wildlands to grow crops and raise livestock. As a result, humans have cleared one-third of the world's forests and two-thirds of wild grasslands since the…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago  (385+ words) A new variety of banana genetically modified to be slow-ripening and browning-resistant has been approved in Japan and Brazil, and will be grown in the latter," reports'The Doomslayer. Tropic, the pioneering agricultural biotechnology company, has secured regulatory approval in both…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (217+ words) The ampurta, a formerly endangered carnivorous marsupial found in Australia, has'rebounded'in recent years,'expanding its range'by an area the size of Denmark between 2015 and 2021. Researchers credit some of the resurgence to the 1995 release of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus, which wiped…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago  (281+ words) Koalas in the Australian state of Victoria have long since bounced back from their near-extinction in the early 1900s, but many worried that inbreeding threatened their long-term prospects. Happily, a new genetic database suggests Victorian koala genetic diversity is also recovering,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (237+ words) Whale populations in the Southern Ocean have rebounded to the point that researchers now regularly report spotting pods numbering in the hundreds," notes The Doomslayer. The Guardian reports that In Antarctica, one of our planet's last great wildernesses, a remarkable…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (320+ words) Southern white rhinos are back in Uganda's Kidepo Valley National Park for the first time since 1983, when they were extirpated by poachers," notes The Doomslayer. Ugandan wildlife authorities have reintroduced rhinos into a remote protected area where they were once…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (250+ words) There was a bumper monarch butterfly migration to Mexico this winter. The population was 64 percent larger than last year's and covered the largest land area since 2018. The butterflies remain far below their historical numbers, but seem to have stabilized in…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (145+ words) There are now 61 snow leopards in Uzbekistan's largest nature reserve, more than double the 2015 count," reports The Doomslayer. Uzbekistan is a country in Central Asia that borders Afghanistan and Kazakhstan. In the last four years, snow leopards have also increased…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (199+ words) Wild California condors have laid an egg in Northern California for the first time in more than a 100 years. After decades of conservation work, the endangered species has rebounded from near-extinction to more than 600 birds," notes The Doomslayer. Smithsonian Magazine…...