A Long-Lost Rare Crayfish Resurfaces in an Alabama Cave
Historically, Shelta Cave was one of the most diverse cave systems in the eastern United States. Long before Niemiller and other scientists came along,…
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Reshuffled Rivers Bolster the Amazon’s Hyper-Biodiversity
From the window of a passenger plane flying over the Amazon, the view is breathtaking. “It’s just miles across of river and river islands,” said Lukas…
Jellyfish’s stinging cells hold clues to biodiversity — ScienceDaily
The cnidocytes -- or stinging cells -- that are characteristic of sea anemones, hydrae, corals and jellyfish, and make us careful of our feet while wading in…
Ticks Are Spreading in the US—and Taking New Diseases With Them
A disease that is so rare in the United States that it is recognized in only about 40 people each year has taken the life of a person living in Maine. The…
How Prescribed Burns Can Help Restore Eastern US Forests
By mid-afternoon, the team had seemingly painted fire onto the land, burning exactly where and what they wanted. The mature pines’ lower trunks were singed…
To Resurrect Jordan’s Lost Forests, People Plant Tiny Urban Ones
The team’s test plots also host some of Jordan’s rarest flora. In Marka, that includes saplings of Pistacia lentiscus, the wild pistachio tree—there are only…
European earthworms reduce insect populations in North American forests: Researchers recommend…
Earthworms introduced into northern North America have a negative impact on the insect fauna above ground. Soil ecologists found this impact for abundance as…
The Amazon Rainforest May Be Nearing a Point of No Return
The Amazon is also taking longer to recover from perturbations like weather events, which unfold over weeks or months, as well as the longer time frames of…
In Alaska, Beavers Are Engineering a New Tundra
This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Cyrus Harris hopped on a snowmobile one day in early…
How Preserving Agave Could Help Save an Endangered Bat
In 2019, in the journal Scientific Reports, Gómez-Ruiz and Lacher followed their earlier paper with the first study to examine how climate disruption is…