A new study has found that the climate crisis is causing major disruptions to European birds, from shifting their nesting dates to decreasing their chick numbers to even changing their general body sizes. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that rising temperatures and non-temperature effects of climate change […]
As temperatures continue to rise, albatrosses are “divorcing” in higher rates. Albatrosses are large seabirds that notably pair up and tend to mate with one partner for life. Sometimes, they split, called a divorce, if they fail to reproduce. But new research shows that the warming environment is also causing more divorces between albatross couples. […]
The imperilled northern spotted owl has won a reprieve. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) moved Tuesday to reverse a Trump administration decision that would have opened millions of acres of the owl’s West Coast forest habitat to potential logging, arguing that Trump political appointees acted on inaccurate science. “You can’t remove over a […]
California condors are a critically endangered species, with only a little more than 500 left alive. However, a new study reveals that these vulnerable birds are capable of a rare ability: virgin births, or parthenogenesis. “This is truly an amazing discovery,” study co-author and Kleberg Endowed Director of Conservation Genetics at San Diego Zoo Wildlife […]
From the goats that ran wild in a Welsh town to the endangered turtles that nested on deserted beaches, many animals used the first months of the coronavirus lockdown to get comfortable in places normally dominated by humans. Now, a study published in Science Advances confirms that the number of birds in North American cities […]
Shelley’s eagle owls are the largest owls that live in Africa’s rainforests, according to HuffPost, but they have still managed to stay well hidden. In fact, there have been no confirmed photographs of the species taken in the wild since scientists first catalogued its existence 150 years ago. Until now. British scientists snapped a photo […]
The devastating oil spill that spewed at least 126,000 gallons off the Southern California coast this weekend has highlighted the dangers of oil extraction. The spill was likely caused by a leak in a pipeline operated by Beta Offshore, about five miles from the coast of Orange County, NBC4 Los Angeles reported. It has shuttered […]
At least 126,000 gallons of crude oil have gushed from a pipeline just five miles off the Southern California coast Sunday, wreaking still-unknown devastation on local wetlands and fouling Huntington Beach. “It’s terrible,” Jon Ely, a 58-year-old Huntington Beach resident, told the Los Angeles Times. “This stuff is not going to come up. It’s goo, […]
The mysterious deaths of 63 endangered African penguins are being attributed to an unusual cause — bee stings. The birds were found dead Friday morning on a beach outside of Cape Town, South Africa, according to AFP and a South African National Parks (SANParks) Table Mountain National Park Facebook Post. “After tests, we found bee […]
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