Climate change heats Mediterranean Sea, threatening biodiversity
ROME (AP) — The Mediterranean of our ancestors is no more. Scientists say climate change, caused mainly by…
Discovery of New Avocado Types Could Lead to More Superfood Choices and Resilience
A close-up of the new avocado species – credit, Kevin Wann, via SWNS Scientists trudging through Nicaragua’s rainforest…
In 1862, the Indian myna was shipped to Melbourne to control crop pests and is now one of only three birds on the world’s 100 worst invaders |
Introduced to control pests, the Common myna now thrives in urban areas. This opportunistic bird competes aggressively with…
MVRDV Wins Competition to Design Shift Embassy in Rotterdam
Rotterdam ROCKS!, “Shift Embassy” in Rotterdam. Image © MVRDV Published on July 21, 2026 Share Share Facebook Twitter…
Earth’s Oceans Are Rapidly Losing Oxygen. It Could Destabilize the Planet
Oxygen, the element that sustains nearly all multicellular life on Earth, is disappearing from the world’s aquatic ecosystems.…
Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space
Jablonski, D., Roy, K. & Valentine, J. W. Out of the tropics: evolutionary dynamics of the latitudinal diversity…
Discovery of 2 Hawaiian insects ‘unexpected and encouraging,’ offer hope for rare species : Big Island Now
New populations of two species of endangered native Hawaiian moth and damselfly were discovered on islands where they…
The evolution and diversification of Cetacea
Thewissen, J. & Bajpai, S. Whale origins as a poster child for macroevolution. BioScience 51, 1037–1049 (2001). Article …
Support for climate and biodiversity policies differs across cultural worldviews in Japan
Hoegh-Guldberg, O. et al. The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5 C. Science 365, eaaw6974…
Interior Department narrows Endangered Species Act protections
PHOENIX (AP) — The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species…
China’s great green wall: Over 60 billion trees are growing faster than natural forests — here’s the secret behind that growth
If one had to pick a few things to know China by, the Great Wall of China would…
Costa Rica lost nearly half its forests in just a few decades, then planted millions of trees and became one of the world’s greatest reforestation success stories |
By the 1980s, Costa Rica was facing an environmental crisis that few could have imagined just decades earlier.…