11+ hour, 10+ min ago  (371+ words) Drought significantly reduces the reproductive success of bumblebee colonies. This is shown by a new study conducted by a research team at the University of W'rzburg. This also has consequences for plant pollination. "Our work is the first study to…...

11+ hour, 14+ min ago  (407+ words) Published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, the JCU-led team of Australian scientists analysed two and half million plankton-eating fish observations, revealing fundamental differences in fish size, quantity and growth between the two reef realms. Researchers found that plankton…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (308+ words) Forests employ approximately 42 million people worldwide, with women accounting for one quarter of the workforce, according to new research from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Th'nen Institute of…...

17+ hour, 50+ min ago  (409+ words) Senator The Hon Murray Watt, Minister for the Environment and Water Meryl Swanson MP, Member for Paterson The future of Australia's koalas is being reshaped in Port Stephens, with groundbreaking, world-leading research now underway at the Port Stephens Koala Hospital…...

17+ hour, 20+ min ago  (320+ words) Birds that put more energy into parenthood age faster and die younger, new research shows. Scientists selectively bred Japanese quails into two groups: laying either relatively large or small eggs. As the quails don't do much "parenting" after eggs hatch,…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (270+ words) Carlyn Scott, College of Marine Science "We can use samples like this to look at which organisms are in the water, study how productive they are, and measure traits like size, color, and their genetic composition," he said. Muller-Karger's lab,…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (270+ words) Studying these tiny features has long been a challenge. Traditional methods are slow and often miss subtle structural changes. Researchers combined micro-CT imaging with deep learning-based image segmentation, using convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a form of artificial intelligence, to automatically…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (322+ words) The Australian Marine Conservation Society, The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Save Our Marine Life alliance welcome Australia's ratification of a landmark international agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of marine life in areas beyond national jurisdiction, also known…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago  (284+ words) The water-to-land transition stands as one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution, giving rise to the two major groups of living land vertebrates'amniotes and lissamphibians'which occupy markedly different ecological niches. Key hypotheses of vertebrate terrestrialization propose a plausible…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1197+ words) Along the southern coastline, researchers dive deep to collect seaweed from kelp forests and rocky platforms, taking small samples and the location of each sample. Back in the lab, the specimens are preserved " some dried, others kept alive " so they…...