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A biologist examines the benefits and drawbacks of virtual and augmented reality in teaching environmental science.
Evolution in your back garden: Great tits may be adapting their beaks to birdfeeders
A British enthusiasm for feeding birds may have caused UK great tits to have evolved longer beaks than their European counterparts, according to new...
Three-quarters of the total insect population lost in protected nature reserves
Since 1989, in 63 nature reserves in Germany the total biomass of flying insects has decreased by more than 75 percent. This decrease has...
Maintaining fish biomass the key to conserving reef fish biodiversity
A new study has found that conserving fish diversity in Madagascar's coral reef systems may depend on maintaining fish biomass above critical levels.
Declining baby songbirds need forests to survive drought
A new study aimed to identify characteristics that promote healthy wood thrush populations on US Department of Defense land.
Scientists see order in complex patterns of river deltas
River deltas, with their intricate networks of waterways, coastal barrier islands, wetlands and estuaries, often appear to have been formed by random processes, but...
Fossil coral reefs show sea level rose in bursts during last warming
Scientists have discovered that Earth's sea level did not rise steadily when the planet's glaciers last melted during a period of global warming; rather,...
Living mulch builds profits, soil
Living mulch functions like mulch on any farm or garden except -- it's alive. No, it's not out of the latest horror movie; living...
More than 75 percent decrease in total flying insect biomass over 27 years across...
The total flying insect biomass decreased by more than 75 percent over 27 years in protected areas in Germany, according to a new study.
Impact of Amazonian hydropower ‘significantly underestimated’
The environmental impact of hydropower generation in the Amazon may be greater than predicted, according to new research.
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