Underwater passive acoustic recording is vital for researchers to monitor and study marine animals in their natural environment with minimal disturbance.This article was originally published on this website.
Once hailed as a solution to Ethiopia’s creeping desertification, a foreign tree is now spreading uncontrollably across the East African nation, threatening fragile ecosystems and the very survival of local communities.This article was originally published […]
A long-term analysis shows that a major Oregon reservoir abruptly swapped one type of toxic algae for another midway through the 12-year study period, absent any obvious cause. The project provides a novel look at […]
Millions of coral larvae on the Great Barrier Reef have an increased chance of replenishing degraded reefs thanks to the “larval seedbox”—a coral restoration technology developed by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, with Southern Cross […]
New research led by UH Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP) has drastically increased the understanding of Hawaiian monk seal (Neomonachus schauinslandi) underwater sound production, revealing a vocal repertoire far […]
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus terrestris—can decide where to forage for food based on different durations of visual cues. Their paper is […]
It’s a tale of underwater odd couples: One digs, the other keeps watch, and together they’ve thrived on the Great Barrier Reef for millennia.This article was originally published on this website.
Invasive tawny crazy ants have been wreaking havoc across the U.S. Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas, disrupting ecosystems and causing headaches for homeowners. Now scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have devised […]
A new global study finds that the visual beauty of birds—their colors and shapes—predicts which wild species are traded by people. By analyzing data for over 9000 bird species, researchers discovered that the birds people […]
In a local grazier’s backyard in the small southeast QLD town of Murgon, scientists have been digging for decades in what looks like an unremarkable clay pit. But within the clay lies one of Australia’s […]
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