Fake news works for wallabies and elephants. Herbivores can cause substantial damage to crops or endangered or protected plants, with traditional methods to deter foraging lethal, expensive or ...

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The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá ...

Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...

A rainforest is a tropical or subtropical forest that receives high amounts of precipitation. Typically found near the Earth's equator, where there is high rainfall and warm temperatures, rainforests ...

Mammal and bird losses cut a plant’s ability to adapt to global climate change by 60 percent. Pictured: Cedar waxwing Andrew C via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 Half of all plant species rely on ...

As the climate gets hotter, plants may need to grow in new locations to survive. But the animals that help spread the seeds are disappearing. Climate change is putting plants in a tough spot. Many are ...

From a grain sized mussel hiding in drowned cypress wood to a tiny squirrel that could sit in your hand, the new species described in 2024 show that our planet still holds many surprises. Scientists ...

Haldre Rogers’s entry into ecology came via the sort of man-made calamity that scientists euphemistically call an “accidental experiment.” She’d taken a job in 2002 on the Pacific island of Guam and ...

Don Driscoll received funding from the Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, and the New South Wales government's Applied Bushfire Science program to collate and publish this work. He ...

There are just some things that insert themselves where they are unwanted, and when plants and animals insert themselves into areas they aren't supposed to be in it can damage an ecosystem. Tennessee ...

In the Peruvian Amazon, native stingless bees are helping beekeepers and their communities by producing honey and pollinating local plants. Stingless bees, also known as meliponine bees, surround a ...