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U.S.' hunger for Halloween trinkets is killing Vietnam's painted woolly bats With hues of orange and black on its wings and a furry, fluffy face, the painted woolly bat is a stunner. But its beauty has become a deadly liability. People want to hang the bats — dead and stuffed ...

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The Black Death’s counterintuitive effect: as human numbers fell, so did plant diversity New study finds that plant biodiversity collapsed in landscapes where arable production was abandoned during and after the Black Death era.

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Monitoring feral pigs (Sus scrofa): Complementarity between autonomous sensing methods increases detection probability Invasive alien species are a major threat for biodiversity worldwide and effective monitoring is paramount to inform management. In this study we used a multi-season occupancy model to assess probabi....

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Extreme weather is transforming the world’s rivers. We need new ways to protect them Rivers support billions of people but are among the least protected parts of nature. A major review shows what needs to be done as climate change accelerates.

Source: The Conversation
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The cost of casting animals as heroes and villains in conservation science New research shows how these storytelling choices can distort science – and how to move beyond them.

Source: The Conversation
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‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway Local river defenders force U-turn by occupying grain terminal operated by one of US powerhouses of world trade

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End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Are you watching Dirty Business? Water companies are putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Lion DNA convicts poachers in world first Investigators reveal how they were able to identify a missing animal using a database of lions in Zimbabwe.

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Road dust impairs pollinators' foraging preference and seed production in populations of Primula chungensis along the G318 roadside.

Road air pollution harms the reproductive success of a bee‐pollinated wildflower: A dusty threat to biodiversity

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Call me invasive: New evidence confirms the status of the giant Asian mantis in Europe In the realm of entomology, few creatures command as much fascination as the mantis. Throughout history, these striking insects have been deeply woven into local myths and legends, sometimes respected...

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I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.

Coffee-growing countries becoming too hot to cultivate beans, analysis finds Five countries responsible for 75% of world’s coffee supply record average of 57 extra days of coffee-harming heat a year

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In our new paper, we demonstrate the potential of social media data for tracking range-shifting species, particularly in the leading edge of the expansion. doi.org/10.1111/cobi... (1/6) @monashbiol.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social

Cape Peninsula baboons: A Public Protector complaint and the question of accountability in a World Heritage Site The actions in the R27-million plan for the Cape Peninsula’s chacma baboons are irreversible. The urgent question is whether the decision-making process that led to these actions was transparent, evid...

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Deer inhibit trees but raise plant diversity, 18-year study reveals At high densities, white-tailed deer inhibit growth of trees but increase the overall diversity of smaller plant and weed species, according to a long-term study published recently. The work is publis...

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Yangtze River fishing ban halts seven decades of biodiversity decline The Yangtze River Basin, a global biodiversity hotspot, has endured severe ecological degradation over several decades due to intense human activity, leading to a marked decline in aquatic biodiversit...

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Job alert! Lectureship in field ecology at University of Reading with a special focus on plants.

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🌾From Japanese Traditions to Seed Biology: A Conversation with Toshiyuki Imaizumi Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

From Japanese traditions to seed biology

🎙️New interview: Toshiyuki Imaizumi, @annbot.bsky.social speaker at the RABioS Meeting, shares:

🍚 How food & agriculture shaped his path
🌱 Why seed dormancy fascinates him
🌾 How dormancy research helps weed management

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“Pollution from intensive poultry farming doesn’t stop at the farm boundary, and regulation can’t stop there either." - Emma Dearnaley, River Action's Head of Legal

River Action begin legal challenge to Natural Resources Wales after chicken farm expansions in Powys: www.itv.com/news/wales/2...

Raw water transfers are an understudied pathway of species spread that we need to pay attention to.
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🐧🌏Species aren't just part of a place- they help make it. New study in Tasmania, found penguins and muttonbirds to strengthen #PlaceAttachment indirectly through emotional and experiential bonds. These bonds can even carry to other places that look or sound the same.

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Economists and environmental scientists see the world differently – here’s why that matters Distinct disciplines are trained to notice different things.

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Cape Town’s wildflowers are a world treasure: six insights from a new checklist The latest checklist of Table Mountain flora shows that Cape Town is still a global hotspot for threatened flowering plants.

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Visualizing how a plant's leaves, stem and roots mutually communicate under environmental stress in real time How do the different parts of an adult plant communicate with each other when it suffers an injury, is waterlogged, burnt or exposed to environmental stress? Today we can answer this question thanks t...

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This study reveals divergent root P - acquisition strategies in climate transition zones, driven by climate and soil factors, advancing understanding of phosphorus utilization in such ecosystems 👇️

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Vegetation flammability contributes to alternative stable states in arid Australia

Cool project led by Boyd Wright

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Does a tree know it's being eaten? | Discover Wildlife Can a tree protect itself if being eaten?

Source: BBC Wildlife Magazine
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A scientific study from Stanford University shows that planting billions of trees has become a global climate symbol, but monocultures replace native ecosystems, reduce biodiversity, dry up rivers, and may decrease total carbon instead of capturing it. Researchers show that restoration is not about lining trees in rows, but about allowing natural regeneration, using diverse native species, and planning the landscape beyond the boundaries of a plantation.

A scientific study from Stanford University shows that planting billions of trees has become a global climate symbol, but monocultures replace native ecosystems, reduce biodiversity, dry up rivers, may decrease total carbon instead of capturing it - CPG Click Oil and Gas share.google/tGUbLbJLatLN...