"Researchers have demonstrated a link between urbanization and the plumage color of birds. Species that thrive in cities are less brown and sport more elaborate colors. These color differences are probably due to differences in habitat structure and predation pressure—cities are less forested, have different background colors and a lower number of avian predator species".

#urbanization #birds #cities #predators #colors #habitats
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-bird-species-urban-areas-brown.html

"Storm forecasting is traditionally based on studying atmospheric conditions but ground-breaking research that also looks at land surface conditions is set to transform early warning systems in tropical regions. This will enable communities to better adapt to the destructive impacts of climate change".

#tropicalregions #climatechange #strom
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1079339

"Commonly called the “corpse flower,” Amorphophallus titanum is endangered for many reasons, including habitat destruction, climate change and encroachment from invasive species". 

#amorphallustitanum #endangered #climatechange #habitat
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1078889

"Insects are the dominant form of animal life on our planet, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and recycling services but, despite concerns about population declines, little is known about how 99% of species globally are faring".

#insects #decline #pollinators
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-insects-declining.html

Koklass Pheasant

A large and timid partridge-like pheasant of high-to-mid-altitude forests. Males have a silver-plumed body, maroon breast stripe, white neck patch, and dark greenish-black head topped with a long crest that, when erect, gives it the profile of a startled rabbit. Females are streaky brown with a faded version of the male’s white patch and breast stripe; note her short crest, buffy eyebrow, white throat bordered by dark.

Link: https://ebird.org/species/kokphe1
Photo Location: India

"The musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus) weighs only 500 grams and looks a bit like a potoroo. It's part of a lineage that extends back to before kangaroos evolved their distinctive hopping gait.
Unlike their bigger relatives, muskies can be seen out and about during the day, foraging in the forest litter for fruits, fungi and invertebrates".

#muskyrat #kangaroo
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-kangaroo-doesnt-roos-evolved-quirky.html

"Freshwater ecosystems require adequate oxygen levels to sustain aerobic life and maintain healthy biological communities. However, both long-term climate warming and the increasing frequency and intensity of short-term heat waves are significantly reducing surface dissolved oxygen (DO) levels in lakes worldwide"

#ecosystems #globalwarming #freshwater #oxigination #aerobicorganism
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-climate-global-lake-deoxygenation.html

"A forest with high tree-species diversity is better at buffering heat peaks in summer and cold peaks in winter than a forest with fewer tree species. This is the result of a study led by researchers from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig University, and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)".

#forest #biodiversity #heatpeaks #trees
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1077914

"Freshwater ecosystems require adequate oxygen levels to sustain aerobic life and maintain healthy biological communities. However, both long-term climate warming and the increasing frequency and intensity of short-term heatwaves are significantly reducing surface dissolved oxygen (DO) levels in lakes worldwide, according to a new study"

#ecosystem #freshwater #heatwaves #globalwarming
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1077716

"Recent studies have shown that carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems are increasing, mitigating around 30% of the CO2 emissions linked to human activities".

#carbon #ecosystems #emissions
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1077615

"Climate change is causing the world's glaciers to disappear at an alarming rate. Scientists have been studying and modeling this process for years, but until now, no research group has specifically examined how glacier melt will affect glacier-fed streams and their ecosystems".

#glaciers #ecosystems #modeling #climatechange
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-glacier-unique-microbial-ecosystems-threat.html

"An international team on board Schmidt Ocean Institute's R/V Falkor (too) working in the Bellingshausen Sea rapidly pivoted their research plans to study an area that was, until last month, covered by ice. On January 13, 2025, an iceberg the size of Chicago, named A-84, broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf, one of the massive floating glaciers attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet".

#Antarctic #iceshelf #glaciers
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-antarctic-ecosystems-detached-iceberg.html

"A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that while the natural world continues to face a biodiversity crisis, targeted conservation efforts are helping bring many species back from the brink of extinction".

#extinction #biodiversity #conservation
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-efforts-species-brink-biodiversity-falls.html

"In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, research work has revealed unusual structures that are probably due to the activity of an unknown microbiological life form. Unusually small burrows, i.e., tiny tubes that run through the rock in a parallel arrangement from top to bottom, were discovered in marble and limestone of these desert regions".

#desert #MicroOrganisms #rock #marble
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-unusual-unknown-microorganism-marble-limestone.html

Kazakhstan reintroduces endangered species like Przewalski’s horse and snow leopard timesca.com/kazakhstan-r... #Kazakhstan #EndangeredSpecies #WildlifeConservation #PrzewalskisHorse #TuranianTiger #SnowLeopard

Kazakhstan Restores Population...

"Heatwaves appear to trigger heritable gene expression changes that may help make the fish more tolerant of thermal stress, researchers report in novel study"

#heatwaves #troutfish #thermalstress
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1077338

"The red coral colonies that were transplanted a decade ago on the seabed of the Medes Islands have survived successfully. They are very similar to the original communities and have contributed to the recovery of the functioning of the coral reef, a habitat where species usually grow very slowly".

#redcoralreef #transplanted #habitat #species
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-red-coral-colonies-survive-decade.html

"An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers—the first ever record of such a preservation".
#volcanic #fossil #vulture #Italy

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-vulture-fossil-discovery-reveals-volcanic.html

"The release of the 2025 U.S. State of the Birds report was announced today at the 90th annual North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The report, produced by a coalition of leading science and conservation organizations, reveals continued widespread declines in American bird populations across all mainland and marine habitats, with 229 species requiring urgent conservation action".
#birds #wildlife #conservation #biodiversity

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1076762