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From lizards to water, eco-bumps snag Tesla Berlin plant
Apr 18, 2021 (AFP)
"When I saw on TV that the Tesla factory was going to be built here, I couldn't believe it," said Steffen Schorch, driving his trusty German-made car. The 60-ye...
Scientists grow human-monkey chimeric embryos in lab
Apr 15, 2021 (UPI)
The international research team, including geneticists in China and the United States, detailed their breakthrough in a new paper, published Thursday in the jou...
Just 3 percent of terrestrial habitat is 'ecologically intact'
Apr 15, 2021 (UPI)
More recently, scientists and policy makers have called for more concrete definitions of "wilderness." In its efforts to combat climate change and preserve biod...
Are conservationists spreading pathogens to threatened species?
Apr 12, 2021 (AFP)
Scientists in Britain looked in particular at efforts to save threatened populations of mussels. Freshwater mussels play an important role in the food web and i...
Rhino population in Nepal grows in conservation boost
Apr 11, 2021 (AFP)
The population rose to 752 across four national parks in the southern plains, up from 645 in 2015, the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation sa...
Argentine zoo transfers two rare Bengal tigers to the US
Apr 10, 2021 (AFP)
Rhiano, a 14-year-old born in the Argentine capital's old zoo -- later transformed into today's Eco-park -- and Cleo, a 12-year-old originally from a Canadian z...
Scientists can now silence genes without altering underlying DNA sequence
Apr 09, 2021 (UPI)
Now, scientists have developed a tool that can precisely control gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence. The genomic tweaks forged by the ...
Biodiversity 'hot spots' devastated in warming world
Apr 08, 2021 (AFP)
An analysis of 8,000 published risk assessments for species showed a high danger for extinction in nearly 300 biodiversity "hot spots", on land and in the sea, ...
Survey finds 82% of dead eagles with rat poison in their systems
Apr 07, 2021 (UPI)
The survey results, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, are a reminder of the lurking threats that face even the most well-protected animals. "Generall...
Energy giant sued as Spain power lines kill 100s of birds
Apr 07, 2021 (AFP)
According to the lawsuit, a copy of which was seen by AFP on Wednesday, prosecutors are suing the utility for offences against the environment and wildlife. The...
Wildlife biodiversity is a boon to human health, seafood nutrition
Apr 05, 2021 (UPI)
Previous studies have highlighted many of the ways biodiversity offers indirect benefits to human health -- by encouraging pollination, for example. But new res...
Boxed in by poachers, African elephants only use fraction of potential range
Apr 01, 2021 (UPI)
Despite human development and population growth across Africa, a new survey of the African elephant's potential range -- published Thursday in the journal Curre...
Activists cheer record baby prospects for Pyrenees bears
Apr 01, 2021 (AFP)
"It's a record -- never before have nine litters been detected in the Pyrenees since we started studying the bear population," the Pays de l'Ours (Bear Country)...
Snakes, rats and cats: the trillion dollar invasive species problem
Mar 31, 2021 (AFP)
Researchers in France estimate that invasive species have cost nearly $1.3 trillion dollars to the global economy since 1970, an average of $26.8 billion per ye...
Lake bottoms may provide insight into cyanobacteria blooms
Mar 30, 2021 (UPI)
The new paper, published Tuesday in the Journal of Plankton Research, offers an overview of what scientists know about cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, as we...
Friends, enemies an evolutionary function of long, slow life, study says
Mar 30, 2021 (UPI)
When researchers at the University of Exeter looked at the relationships between lifespan, reproductive patterns and social dynamics among different species, th...
How does nature renew itself
Mar 30, 2021 (SPX)
"Because only complex ecosystems are ultimately resilient. Biodiversity alone is not enough. The diverse and close-knit relationships within an ecosystem are ju...
Galapagos airport staff find 185 tortoises in suitcase
Mar 28, 2021 (AFP)
The discovery was made "during a routine inspection," the environment ministry said on Twitter, adding that police were investigating. Trafficking fauna off the...
Russia hails rare sighting of Amur leopard mum with cubs
Mar 26, 2021 (AFP)
Scientists in a Russian national park located in the Primorye region on the border with China obtained the stunning images using a remote camera trap. The video...
Brain disease killing bald eagles traced to unknown cyanobacterium
Mar 25, 2021 (UPI)
In pockets of the American South, however, scientists have found local eagle populations suffering from outbreaks of a mysterious neurodegenerative disease, cal...
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