- Scientists are using radio telemetry to map out the home range and habitats of tiger salamanders in the Hamptons in New York.
- Tiger salamanders spend most of their time in burrows underground; they emerge during…
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Radio tags help reveal the secret lives of tiger salamanders
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Three animals on the path to recovery
Every third Friday of May is Endangered Species Day.
More than 900 known species are already extinct to date, while at least 28,500 others are listed as endangered or critically…
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Satellite-based vertical land motion for infrastructure monitoring: a prototype roadmap in Greater Houston, Texas
Thompson, P. R. et al. Rapid increases and extreme months in projections of United States high-tide flooding. Nat. Clim. Change 11, 584–590 (2021).
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Sustainable prospective proposals for utilizing modifiers in bitumen industry to address global warming
The smooth surface, flexibility, and ease of movement have made asphalt pavements the most common type of pavement in the world’s road networks1. This may be due in part to general availability of bituminous materials and extensive historical…
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Indigenous conservationists lead the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates
- Five of the six nonhuman primate species found in the Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands have traditionally been hunted; traditional beliefs forbid killing the sixth, Kloss’s gibbon, or bilou.
- With widespread…
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New study maps the fishmeal factories that supply the world’s fish farms
- In April, scientists published the first-ever open-source map of fishmeal and fish oil factories around the world.
- The scientists found 506 factories across some 60 countries, and in most cases were able to identify…
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World’s oldest ant fossil found in Brazil, dating back 113 million years
A “remarkably well-preserved” fossil discovered in Brazil, dating back 113 million years, is now the oldest ant to have ever been found by scientists, a new study has…
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In India, folklore is a tool that helps women save the greater adjutant stork
- In Northeastern India’s Assam, women have joined forces to save the resident greater adjutant stork (Leptoptilos dubius), known locally as the hargila, which was long considered a “dirty, smelly bird” that…
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Profit imbalance in palm oil industry risks environmental compliance, report says
- A new report calls on palm oil-buying firms to take serious steps to address systemic imbalances in the distribution of profits across the supply chain.
- Smallholder farmers produce nearly one-third of raw palm oil…
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Brazil’s offshore wind farms could sacrifice small-scale fishing in Ceará
- In Brazil, the expansion of coastal wind energy has already disrupted traditional communities’ way of life; now, the concern is that these impacts will be repeated at sea, after a bill regulating offshore wind…
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