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'We were being bullied in our own home': How 'authoritarian' HOAs are contributing to the insect apocalypse
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (715+ words) In the book "Bitter Honey," writer and researcher Jennie Durant explores how industrial agriculture is destroying bees " and what can be done to stop them. There's an army of tiny workers buzzing around our fields, helping our food grow. But…...
'A combination of amazement and horror': Hitchhiker fish hide in manta ray buttholes
2+ week, 5+ day ago (599+ words) Hitchhiker fish known as remoras have a very unexpected hiding place: the rear ends of manta rays. Hitchhiking fish that are famous for suctioning themselves to other marine animals have a very unexpected hiding place: the rear ends of manta…...
'More than 100 million years of evolution': How snakes evolved and lost their legs
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (1110+ words) Huge snakes, tiny snakes, poisonous snakes and constrictor snakes, snakes that slither, burrow or swim: New fossils and modern technology are tracing serpent origins Back when dinosaurs stomped the Earth, dinky mammals scurried about in their shadows. The little furballs,…...
More polar bears are approaching human sites as the climate warms, and it's not just the skinny ones
3+ week, 3+ hour ago (705+ words) It's not just thinner bears that are coming ashore as the climate warms. Polar bears are intensely curious animals. That curiosity often brings them into contact with people and can put both species at risk from one another. Between 2011 and…...
Mangroves clean up $8. 7 billion of nitrogen pollution every year, study finds
3+ week, 2+ day ago (422+ words) New research suggests mangroves remove 960, 000 tons per year of nitrogen from global water systems, a figure that could rise to more than 5. 5 million tons annually if conditions were optimal for the plants. Mangrove forests around the world provide a largely…...
What's the difference between a lion and a tiger?
4+ week, 1+ day ago (614+ words) One has stripes, and one doesn't. But do the differences between lions and tigers go deeper than that? Whether it's having the "eye of the tiger" or being lionhearted, references to lions and tigers evoke power and determination. That's not…...
City birds appear to like men more than women, but experts have no idea why
4+ week, 1+ day ago (493+ words) An analysis of 37 urban bird species found that men could get slightly closer to the avians than women could, suggesting that these animals recognize sex differences in humans. Despite being surrounded by a multitude of people, urban birds may be…...
Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (746+ words) Scientists recently discovered a new species of green anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. A new Nat Geo series shows the moment they encountered this snake in the wild. In 2024, scientists announced the discovery of a newfound anaconda species in the…...
'It cuts both ways': Positive tipping points can restore wreaked ecosystems " we just need to trigger them, Earth system scientist Tim Lenton says
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (193+ words) Live Science spoke with Tim Lenton, founding director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, about human actions that can trigger positive, self-propelling changes in nature. In a new perspective article, Lenton argues that positive tipping points…...
'Their greatest challenge since they stared down the asteroid': Paleontologist Steve Brusatte on why birds are facing their biggest existential threat since the dino-killing asteroid
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1197+ words) In a new book, paleontologist Steve Brustatte tells the wild story of how birds evolved during the Jurassic and took to the skies, surviving the asteroid strike that killed their fellow dinosaurs. Birds have spread their wings the world over,…...