Nov. 9, 2020 The transition to middle school is undeniably tough for many sixth-graders, even in the best of times. Mounting academic demands, along with changes in peer dynamics and the onset of puberty, result ...
Nov. 4, 2020 Ambrosia beetles are fascinating: they practice agriculture with fungi and they live in a highly developed social system. A biologist has now discovered new facts about ...
Nov. 3, 2020 Researchers have created drones that can attach sensors to trees to monitor environmental and ecological changes in ...
Nov. 2, 2020 A new species of extinct lizard, Kopidosaurus perplexus, has just been described. The first part of the name references the lizard's distinct teeth; a 'kopis' is a curved blade used in ...
Oct. 30, 2020 Scientists have synthesized long-term biodiversity data from 12 immense forest study plots spanning 1,500 miles, from China's far north to its southern tropics. Their results point to maple ...
Oct. 29, 2020 Vestal Grove in Cook County, Illinois, looks nothing like the scrubby, buckthorn-choked tangle that first confronted restoration ecologists 37 years ago. Thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team ...
Oct. 29, 2020 The fur of the platypus - an Australian species threatened with extinction - glows green under ultraviolet light, a new study finds. This is the first observation of biofluorescence in an egg-laying ...
Oct. 28, 2020 An international team publishes the findings of a study on the biogeographical history of sub-Saharan ...
Oct. 26, 2020 A horrifying insect soap opera with vampires, mummies and infant-eating parasites plays out on the stems and leaves of oak trees every day, and an evolutionary biologist found the latest player, a ...
Oct. 22, 2020 New research is first to show that growth rate of adult trees is linked to fungal networks colonizing their ...
Oct. 21, 2020 Results indicate that wildfires may play a role in accelerating climate-driven species changes in mountain forests by compounding regional warming ...
Oct. 19, 2020 Trees planted in urban spaces provide a multitude of ecosystem and social services. At the same time, trees can be a source of inconveniences. Scientists have analyzed trees found in the Geneva ...
Oct. 16, 2020 A new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests helped scientists discover billions of trees in arid and semi-arid regions and lays the groundwork for more accurate ...
Oct. 16, 2020 A new study examines how trees respond to different urban intensities by comparing tree size and age, foliage nitrogen signature, nutrient and heavy metal content and other factors in forests. Not ...
Oct. 15, 2020 Laser technology has been used to measure the volume and biomass of giant Californian redwood trees for the first time, records a new ...
Oct. 15, 2020 A team has found that the amount of carbon that burns in wildfires in western boreal forests depends more on available fuels than on fire weather such as drought conditions, temperature, or ...
Oct. 14, 2020 Growing global demand for palm oil has led to a rapid spread of oil palm monoculture plantations in South East Asia, often associated with the loss of habitats and biodiversity. Plantations are ...
Oct. 13, 2020 Drought is endemic to the American West along with heatwaves and intense wildfires. But scientists are only beginning to understand how the effects of multiple droughts can compound to affect forests ...
Oct. 9, 2020 Researchers have developed a tree-ring chronology from the Amazon River basin that established a link between climate patterns in the Amazon and the ...
Oct. 8, 2020 A new study shows the Impala's migration is a 'dietary migration', where they switch from eating mostly grass in the wet season, to eating more tree leaves or 'browse' during ...
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