Thick-billed parrot populations have declined to fewer than 2000 individuals due to habitat loss, logging and climate change © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee The thick-billed parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) is a medium-sized parrot endemic to Mexico that … [+] formerly ranged into the southwestern United States. Its phylogeny is the subject …
A new collaboration between between ecologists and art historians explored whether it’s possible to get accurate information about landscape ecology from nineteenth century paintings. They studied the work of the Hudson River School, particularly Asher Durand, to create a list of questions that could help other researchers decide which paintings (and artists) could hold clues …
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Ben Goldfarb Author of Crossings When alien archaeologists exhume the rubble of human civilization, they may conclude that our raison d’être was building roads. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the Earth, from the continent-spanning Pan-American Highway to the hundred thousand miles of illegal logging routes that filigree the Amazon. Our planet is burdened …
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It carries itself with classic elegance, a nine-foot-long torpedo with tapered fins. Like their oceangoing cousins, Caribbean reef sharks swim fast to force water through their mouths and over their gills so they can take in oxygen. But they can also ventilate their gills by using muscles in their mouth while lounging in the shallows, …
Warmer temperatures have been found to have a significant impact on the sex determination and reproductive capacity of turtles, according to a recent study. The research revealed that the exposure to higher ambient temperatures leads to an increase in germ cells, which are specialized cells that develop into eggs. This, in turn, results in the …
José Luis Iriarte, an oceanographer working at Universidad Austral de Chile and Principal … [+] investigator at Center FONDAP IDEAL IDEAL A Chilean oceanographer, researchers, and a film crew embarked on a journey to the southernmost tip of South America in order to gain a better understanding of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in the region …
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In the dark of a June evening, Christopher Heckscher stood in the black mud of a New Jersey bog, alert to any flicker of light. He is an explorer, though this wilderness lies in one of the most densely populated regions of the United States: the Northeast megalopolis. And now, as pale stars appeared from …