Nearly a decade after the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, researchers from the University of Georgia have found that wildlife populations are abundant in areas void of human life. The camera study, published in the Journal of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, reports that…
By Elias Marat Australia’s bushfire crisis has ravaged local animal and plant life as ecologists warn that the potential loss of nearly 500 million mammals, reptiles, and birds—including 8,000 koalas—could devastate the country’s biodiversity in an unprecedented manner. Despite the terrifying scope of the tragedy,…
A study out of the University of Hyogo in Awaji, Japan, details the stress-reducing benefits to office workers that even a small plant situated within easy viewing can impart. Masahiro Toyoda, Yuko Yokota, Marni Barnes, and Midori Kaneko explored the practical use of indoor plants…
By Carly Wood, University of Westminster As many as one in six adults experience mental health problems like depression or anxiety every week. And not only is mental ill-health one of the most common causes of disease worldwide – it’s also on the rise. Finding…
By Patricia Burke Lessons from Morning Musical Beds When my youngest son was a toddler, at about 4 a.m. nearly every morning, he would stand in our bedroom doorway, crying that he was cold. Depending on the relative level of exhaustion of each of his…
Barcelona, 17 December 2019. Women who live less than 300 metres from green space may be at lower risk of excess weight or obesity. This is the main finding of a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by…
By Michael Snyder Something is causing the waters just off the West Coast to heat up dramatically, fish are dying off in staggering numbers, birds that feed on those fish are also dying off rapidly, and scientists have discovered 15,000 holes in the ocean floor…
By Amanda Froelich Amidst all of the seeming-chaos and unfortunate news in the world, it’s heartening to hear that a marine species is not only bouncing back but thriving. New research shows that humpback whales in the South Atlantic have rebounded from the brink of…
By John Vibes According to a new study published on Tuesday in Frontiers in Marine Science, manta rays and whale sharks in Indonesia are consuming between 63 and 137 pieces of plastic pollution per hour. A team of scientists from Marine Megafauna Foundation and Murdoch…
By Amanda Froelich Scientists are puzzled by a recent discovery in Siberia. An 18,000-year-old puppy, believed to be just two months old when it died, was found in permafrost in the vicinity of the Indigirka River in Siberia, northeast of Yakutsk. According to The Siberian…
By Christian Yates, University of Bath If your dog has been alive and kicking its paws about for a decade, the widely held belief is that it has aged as much as a human would have done by the grand old age of 70. This…
By Mac Slavo Conservationists are warning that an ongoing and unnoticed insect apocalypse is a huge concern and should be sending up red flags. On Wednesday, the conservationists called for immediate action by governments, industries, and the public to address a decades-long, human-caused insect “apocalypse”…
By Elias Marat The fight against illegal animal poaching has exacted a high toll on communities around the world as smugglers and organized crime groups constantly gain the upper-hand on corrupt officials and militarized law enforcement bodies, leading some researchers with the United Nations to…
By Elias Marat Every fall the monarch butterfly population makes its epic migratory journey across the United States, covering trees like leaves as they make their way to the forests of the Mexican state of Michoacán and the eucalyptus- and pine-rich Californian Central Coast. The…
Restoring native vegetation could cut air pollution and costs, study finds Adding plants and trees to the landscapes near factories and other pollution sources could reduce air pollution by an average of 27 percent, new research suggests. The study shows that plants – not technologies…
By Mayukh Saha At a meeting of the Royal Geographic Society of London, Earthwatch Institute declared bees the most invaluable species on this planet, as reported by The Guardian in 2008. And along with it comes this disturbing piece of news. If bees were to…
Green areas in the inner city can directly improve the wellbeing of urban citizens. This is the result of an interdisciplinary study, in which Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was involved. According to the study, people with a reduced brain capacity to self-regulate negative feelings…
An antibiotic commonly found at low concentrations in the environment can have major impacts on gut bacteria, report researchers at the University of Oregon. The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, applied three-dimensional microscopy to nearly transparent zebrafish…
By Elias Marat The story is all too common: sea creatures washing ashore, emaciated and starved with their bellies filled with plastic waste. The latest tragic victim raising awareness of plastic pollution is a baby turtle that washed ashore in Boca Raton, Florida. The tiny…
The Golden Ratio, described by Leonardo da Vinci and Luca Pacioli as the Divine Proportion, is an infinite number often found in nature, art and mathematics. It’s a pattern in pinecones, seashells, galaxies and hurricanes. In a new study investigating whether skull shape follows the…
