According to a recent study, the cnidocytes, or stinging cells that are found in sea anemones, hydrae, corals, and jellyfish and make humans cautious while wading in the ocean are also a great model for understanding the...
Biodiversity Loss
A disease that is so rare in the United States that it is recognized in only about 40 people each year has taken the life of a person living in Maine. The cause, Powassan virus, is transmitted by ticks, which can pass it...
Biologists have observed a troubling fall in insect abundance over the last decade, which some belief may herald the end of the arthropod apocalypse.These studies, however, are mostly focused on temperate zones, leaving ...
Over hundreds of millions of years, the planet switches between two climate states, greenhouse Earth and icehouse Earth. A new study describes a period of rapid global warming in an icehouse Earth, in an ice-capped world...
During the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of people have re-engaged with nature. Life under lockdown has increased people’s appreciation for urban parks, for example, and highlighted how something as simple as a countrysid...
The United Nations held another COP conference this year, a much-postponed gathering that addressed nature loss. The October 2021 session of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) in Kunming, China, is likely...
Healthy ecosystems and life on Earth suggest ending wind, solar, biofuels and organic programsPaul DriessenClimate change references almost guarantee funding, even for research topics of little interest outside of academ...
Healthy ecosystems and life on Earth suggest ending wind, solar, biofuel and organic programsPaul DriessenReferences to climate change almost guarantee funding, even for research topics of little interest beyond academia...
They help us put food on our tables through pollination and nutrient recycling. They break down and dispose of organic waste, and are food for many animals. As renowned ecologist E.O. Wilson put it, "insects are the lit...
