Protected areas in Africa are too small to safeguard rapidly declining vulture populations
Vultures perform important ecosystem functions as they clean the landscape by eating carcasses and thus limit the spread of wildlife diseases. Yet, vulture populations...
Vegetation declining on elephants’ migration routes in Namibia
A study based on extensive remote sensing data indicates that vegetation near the migration routes of elephants in Namibia has decreased. Human habitation and...
Thin-film photovoltaic technology combines efficiency and versatility
Stacking solar cells increases their efficiency. Researchers have now produced perovskite/CIS tandem solar cells with an efficiency of nearly 25 percent -- the highest...
Genome of voracious desert locust sequenced
The first high-quality genome of the desert locust -- those voracious feeders of plague and devastation infamy and the most destructive migratory insect in...
Volunteer ‘community scientists’ do a pretty darn good job generating usable data
Volunteer community scientists, aka citizen scientists, help researchers with data collection that would otherwise be a time-consuming slog. But while community science can be...
A rethink of the building blocks for solar panels could help mass production
An original approach to mass-producing low-cost solar cell foundation blocks could lead to the wide adoption of solar panels made from perovskite ink --...
The heat is on: Traces of fire uncovered dating back at least 800,000 years
Scientists reveal an advanced, innovative method that they have developed and used to detect nonvisual traces of fire dating back at least 800,000 years...
Insight into past–and future–of Western US wildfires
A new study examines the context surrounding the fires and offers insight into the historical role of large, high-severity fires -- and the future...
Biodiversity risks to persist well beyond future global temperature peak
Even if global temperatures begin to decline after peaking this century because of climate change, the risks to biodiversity could persist for decades after.
Built infrastructure, hunting and climate change linked to huge migratory bird declines
New research shows how migratory birds are declining globally because of the way that humans have modified the landscape in recent decades. A total...
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