23+ hour, 45+ min ago  (366+ words) A University of California, Irvine-led team reveals a clear link between human-driven climate change and the years-long drought currently gripping southern Madagascar. Their study appears in the Nature journal Climate and Atmospheric Science. What helped the Rigden team make the…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (685+ words) Whales and dolphins. Whale songs, beaching, endangered status -- current research news on all cetaceans....

2+ day, 23+ min ago  (437+ words) A new study has examined why hunters stopped using one particular location in central Montana known as the Bergstrom site. Although bison remained plentiful in the region, the site was used intermittently for about 700 years before it was eventually abandoned....

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (689+ words) South Australia is home to a booming koala population, but researchers warn that this apparent conservation success could eventually turn into a serious problem. A new study has provided the first comprehensive estimate of koala numbers in the region and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (684+ words) A conservation approach once praised as a global model for helping people and predators coexist may be losing ground because of a lack of long-term government support, according to new research. In 2015, Sweden drew international attention when researchers reported that…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (650+ words) Tiny wrens living on remote Scottish islands are giving scientists a rare look at evolution in action. A new study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham found that several isolated island populations of wrens are evolving independently, with…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (506+ words) Reforestation in low- and middle-income countries can remove up to 10 times more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at lower cost than previously estimated, making this a potentially more important option to fight climate change, according to a study in Nature…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (374+ words) A new study suggests that a more complex understanding of how wealth and biodiversity are linked may help communities with little wealth achieve the levels of diversity typically associated with more affluent areas. "Biodiversity is not a luxury, it is…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (213+ words) In a collaborative study led by researchers at the University of Helsinki, analysis of 900 species over a 20-year period showed that biodiversity enhances ecosystem stability and helps safeguard natural communities in a changing environment. Alongside climate change, biodiversity loss caused…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (687+ words) When a new species is introduced into an ecosystem, it may succeed in establishing itself, or it may fail to gain a foothold and die out. Physicists at MIT have now devised a formula that can predict which of those…...