Researchers may have finally cracked the centuries-old mystery of why African honeyguide birds sometimes lead human honey-hunters to dangerous animals instead of bees: they could…
Category: 9. Environment
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Indonesia’s deforestation claims under scrutiny over ‘cherry-picked’ data
- Researchers say Indonesia’s claim of a 90% deforestation drop over the past decade is misleading due to cherry-picked data and an extreme baseline year.
- The actual decline is closer to 50-69%, driven by earlier…
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NASA Reveals ‘Higher Than Expected’ Sea Level Rise in 2024 : ScienceAlert
As global warming continues to melt Earth’s glaciers, sea level rise hits all new heights. However, in 2024 a different mechanism caused most of this water volume increase.
“The rise we saw in 2024 was higher than we expected,” says NASA…
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Exposure of larval pinto abalone to ocean acidification and warming negatively impacts survival, settlement, and size
Tomascik, T. & Holmes, H. Distribution and abundance of Haliotis Kamtschatkana in relation to habitat, competitors and predators in the broken group Islands, Pacific rim National park reserve of Canada. J. Shellfish Res. 22, 831–838 (2003).
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Recurrence rates of explosive volcanism in paleo-equatorial Pangaea, and implications for climate near the peak late Paleozoic ice age
Lee, C.-T. & Lackey, J. S. Global continental arc flare-ups and their relation to long-term greenhouse conditions. Elements 11, 125–130 (2015).
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Hand-raised chicks boost Guatemala’s critically endangered macaws
Scarlet macaw chicks that may have otherwise died in the wild are getting a second chance at life through a hand-rearing program managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)…
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Jim Brandenburg, conservation photographer, died April 4th, aged 79
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.
In an age of noise and haste, Jim Brandenburg…
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Annual ocean conference nets $9.1 billion for initiatives, despite US absence
- The 10th annual Our Ocean Conference took place in Busan, South Korea, April 28-30.
- Delegates announced 277 new commitments totaling around $9.1 billion for initiatives across the conference’s six main target…
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Hope for endangered axolotls as captive-bred group survives in wild
Critically endangered axolotls that were captive-bred then released into wetlands in Mexico City have successfully adapted to the wild, a new study has found, giving new hope to…
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Kumana, a historic national park in eastern Sri Lanka, emerges as leopard stronghold
- A new study reports a notably high density of Sri Lankan leopards (Panthera pardus kotiya) in eastern Sri Lanka’s Kumana National Park, highlighting the park as a significant habitat for the leopards.
- Using camera…
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