Plant-eating animals more active, carnivores more cautious around humans.
Meteorology: Weak Polar Vortex Makes Weather More Predictable
Events in the stratosphere are making long-range weather in Northern Europe easier to forecast, researchers at LMU have discovered.
Arctic Nightlife: Seabird Colony Bursts With Sound at Night
Acoustic recordings of a colony of little auks reveal their nocturnal activities and offer valuable monitoring means for avian biology in the Arctic.
Study Shows a Healthy Diet is Linked with a Slower Pace of Aging, Reduced Dementia Risk
A healthier diet is associated with a reduced dementia risk and slower pace of aging, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and The Robert Butler Columbia Aging Center.
Illinois Study: Tropical Birds Could Tolerate Warming Better Than Expected
Consider the globe, spinning silently in space. Its poles and its middle, the equator, remain relatively stable, thermally speaking, for the duration of Earth’s annual circuit around the sun.
Tsetse Fly Fertility Damaged After Just One Heatwave, Study Finds
The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single burst of hot weather, researchers at the University of Bristol and Stellenbosch University in South Africa have found.
High Resolution Imagery Advances the Ability to Monitor Decadal Changes in Emperor Penguin Populations
Emperor penguin populations have been exceedingly difficult to monitor because of their remote locations, and because individuals form breeding colonies on seasonal sea ice fastened to land (known as fast ice) during the dark and cold Antarctic winter.
Sonic Youth: Healthy Reef Sounds Increase Coral Settlement
A healthy coral reef is noisy, full of the croaks, purrs, and grunts of various fishes and the crackling of snapping shrimp.
Summer Solstice Triggers Synchronised Beech Tree Reproduction Across Europe
A new study published in Nature Plants has found that the summer solstice is a “starting gun” to synchronise beech tree reproduction across vast distances in Europe.
Climate Engine Launches New Website to Facilitate Drought and Vegetation Monitoring
ClimateEngine.org is an innovative tool that provides satellite and climate data in a user-friendly manner to facilitate water conservation, wildfire risk management, agricultural productivity monitoring, and ecological restoration.