Unborn (unhatched?) finches learn about heat from their parents’ songs.
Science News reports on chicks getting prepared to hatch into a hot world by hearing the “heat” songs of their parents: As the heat punishes […]
ecology
Brazilian villages make a good living protecting a giant fish
Science reports on a conservation project that’s also helping some of the poorest people on the planet — villagers along the Juruá River, a western […]
Trees grow six times taller in strange Amazonian soil.
BBC’s Science Focus is digging in the dirt to get inside the mystery of “dark earth,” which seems to make the Amazon as fertile as […]
Fire-nadoes to clean the ocean
BBC’s Science Focus imagines a brighter future … brighter from the blazing fire-tornadoes used to clean plastics and oil from our over-polluted oceans: Taking inspiration […]
A toilet powered by mushrooms
CTV News has an item from University of British Columbia researchers who have found an alternative to Port-a-Potties and camp toilets that doesn’t need all […]
SONG: Dirt Poor
SONG: “Dirt Poor”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Dirty emotions: Microbes in soil may affect hormones tied to love, mental health and […]
Dirty love: Soil steering our emotions
PhysOrg reports on Flinders University researchers who have found that soil microbes can affect our gut biota, which in turn can influence our emotional lives, […]
Hungry caterpillars eat plastic pollution
IFL Science introduces us to “plastivores” — a species of waxworm caterpillars (often thought of as beehive pests) that get fat gorging themselves on plastic […]
USDA finds what caused America’s biggest bee die-off.
Science shares research that identifies a massive killer of honeybees — a virus that’s carried by pesticide-resistant mites: U.S. beekeepers had a disastrous winter. Between […]
SONG: The Temples Resurrect These Fallen Trees.
SONG: “The Temples Resurrect These Fallen Trees”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Thousands of endangered trees preserved for centuries inside Chinese temples,” […]
Eating sea otters is giving wolves mercury poisoning.
Mongabay reports on a survey of data going back 25 years that show Alaskan coastal wolves have changed their diet from deer to sea otters […]
The temple as refuge … for endangered species.
Nature reports on a study from China that found thousands of endangered trees growing on the grounds of religious monuments across the country: It is […]
There are amphibious mice in the Amazon.
Reuters reveals the discovery of 27 new species in the Peruvian Amazon, including a strange species of amphibious mice: Scientists also discovered a spiny mouse, […]
SONG: Two Wolves Inside Us
SONG: “Two Wolves Inside Us” . (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Ecology, 14 Nov 2024, “Canids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian […]
Farewell, murder hornets. We got you.
AP News reports that a particularly dramatic “invasive exotic” species – Vespa mandarinia, the Asian giant hornet, better known as the “murder hornet” – has […]