Coronavirus Disrupts Global Fight to Save Endangered Species
Noel Rowe / Centre ValBio via AP Biologist Carlos Ruiz has spent a quarter-century working to save golden lion tamarins, the charismatic long-maned monkeys native to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Thanks to...
View ArticleDog Sleuths Sniff Out Crop Disease Hitting U.S. Citrus Trees
Tim R. Gottwald/USDA via AP Dog detectives might be able to help save ailing citrus groves, research published Monday suggests. Scientists trained dogs to sniff out a crop disease called citrus...
View ArticleFly Without Flapping? Andean Condors Surf Air 99% of Time
Facundo Vital/AP A new study sheds light on just how efficiently the world’s largest soaring bird rides air currents to stay aloft for hours without flapping its wings. The Andean condor has a wingspan...
View ArticleEcuadorian Hummingbirds Chirp Ultrasonic Songs of Seduction
Paolo David Escobar/Neoselva Photography via AP Perched on a flowering shrub on a windy Andean mountainside, the tiny Ecuadorian Hillstar hummingbird chirps songs of seduction that only another bird of...
View ArticleHotter Climate Increased Risk of Australia’s Record Fires by 30 Percent
State Government of Victoria via AP Climate change raised the chances of Australia’s extreme fire season by at least 30%, according to a study released Wednesday by climate scientists at the World...
View ArticleNot All or Nothing: Anti-Virus Lockdowns Could Lift Slowly
AP Photo/John Antczak Co-authored with AP reporter Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar For the millions of Americans living under some form of lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, not knowing when the...
View ArticleOnce Seen as Loners, Male Elephants Shown to Follow Elders
Connie Allen via AP A line of elephants trundles across a dusty landscape in northern Botswana, ears flapping and trunks occasionally brushing the ground. As they pass a motion-activated camera hidden...
View ArticleHumans Don’t Have a Monopoly on Culture
Getty Images via Washington Monthly It was mid-April, and the petals from Washington, D.C.’s famed cherry blossoms had just fallen to the ground. Several weeks into my coronavirus self-isolation, the...
View ArticleAs California Thins Forests to Limit Fire Risk, Some Resist
AP Photo/Matthew Brown Co-authored with AP reporter Matthew Brown Buzzing chainsaws are interrupted by the frequent crash of breaking branches as crews fell towering trees and clear tangled brush in...
View ArticleBlack Scientists Call Out Racism in the Field and Counter It
Tanisha Williams via AP University of Washington ecologist Christopher Schell is studying how coronavirus shutdowns have affected wildlife in Seattle and other cities. But when planning fieldwork, he...
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