Ecology
Introduced honeybee threat to native bees
A Curtin University study has found the introduced European honeybee could lead to native bee population decline or extinction when colonies compete for the same nectar and pollen sources in urban gardens and areas of bush.
The research found competition… read more
Greening Landscape helps
For at least a century, air, ocean, and land temperatures on Earth have been steadily rising. For at least the past forty years, the planet has been growing a bit greener. Now researchers have found that the greening of the… read more
Rivers help lock carbon from fires into oceans for..
Wildfires are not only bad for nature!
The study published in Nature Communications, calculated how much burned carbon is being flushed out by rivers and locked up in the oceans.
Oceans store a surprising amount of carbon from burned vegetation,… read more
Saving livestock by thinking like a predator
For predators like wolves, cougars and snow leopards, a cow or sheep out to pasture may make for an easy and tasty meal. But when wild animals eat livestock, farmers face the traumatic loss of food or income, frequently sparking… read more
Climate change and biodiversity 2: finding solutio..
Different scientists are concerned about different problems: ecologists worry about the diminishing biodiversity. Rightly so: the famous biologist Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University calculated in 2017 that today 50% less animals walk, swim, fly, creep on this planet than a… read more
