- November 22nd, 2024
BRASILIA, Brazil The Negro River, Brazil's second largest tributary, reached its lowest level since official measurements began near Manaus 121 years ago, confirming the Amazon's worst drought. The river drains about 10% of the Amazon basin and is the world's...
Honeybee researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) at the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior have published a study in Animal Behaviour that reveals that male...
Researchers have discovered a location in a marine park off the coast of Perth where juvenile scalloped hammerheads (Sphyrna lewini) gather in large groups. These sharks, one of ten species in the hammerhead family, prefer warm waters but have become...
Fly season is a time for appreciation for the diverse and essential insects we share our world with. With almost a million species worldwide and 30,000 in Australia, the warm weather offers an opportunity to appreciate these creatures. Bush flies,...
New Zealanders have consistently rated freshwater health as a leading environmental concern for over 25 years. However, the issue is absent from the 2023 election campaign due to the controversial new water reform law and the 2020 Essential Freshwater package....
The decline of snowpack in the Northern Hemisphere is expected to decrease due to less pollution settling into snow. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory predict that the reduction in snowpack will be less than half...
The Texas ocelot, an endangered species, is facing threats from historic hunting, habitat loss, inbreeding, and traffic collisions. Only 50-80 ocelots remain in the US, exclusively in Willacy and Cameron counties in southern Texas, which are isolated from the larger...
A new study has found that dynamic and changing Arctic Ocean conditions have caused three major mortality events in the eastern North Pacific grey whale population since the 1980s. The population was reduced by up to 25% over just a...
Scientists have found that 71 of the 162 ice shelves surrounding Antarctica have reduced in volume over 25 years, releasing 7.5 trillion tonnes of meltwater into the oceans. The study found that almost all ice shelves on the western side...
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