The Atlantic Gulf Stream was unexpectedly strong during the last ice age – new study

Jul 11, 2024 07:57 am UTC| Nature

Twenty thousand years ago the world was locked into a great ice age. Ice sheets two miles thick covered much of North America, Scandinavia and the British Isles. Greenhouse gas concentrations were much lower, the world...

Farmers told me what they really think about reintroducing lynx and wolves to Britain and Ireland

Jun 20, 2024 05:39 am UTC| Nature

The only howl I heard on a recent walk across the Garron plateau in the Glens of Antrim, Northern Ireland, was from a bitter, biting wind. But 300 years ago, the howls would most definitely have been lupine: this place was...

We’ve found a way to help endangered eels overcome dams and weirs

Jun 20, 2024 05:29 am UTC| Nature

The European eel Anguilla anguilla, a sleek, snake-like fish with a fascinating life cycle, once teemed in rivers. But their numbers have plummeted by over 95% since the 1980s. Behind this dramatic decline is a...

High fliers: pleasure-seeking parrots are using aromatic plants, stinky ants and alcohol

Jun 20, 2024 05:28 am UTC| Nature

Birds have been known to seek out pungent chemicals for various reasons. Some consume fermented fruits with gusto and suffer the ill effects. Others expose themselves to ants, but only the stinky kind. These ants produce...

How the health of honeybee hives can inform environmental policies in Canadian cities

Jun 13, 2024 06:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

In recent years, there has been a notable surge in Canada and around the world in the popularity of urban beekeeping. Driven by a heightened awareness of the vital role of pollinators and the practices increasing...

We have a moral responsibility to help low-income nations restore coral reefs

Jun 11, 2024 04:19 am UTC| Nature

The fourth global coral bleaching event is underway. It wont be the last. Even if we reduce the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, excess heat will remain in the ocean. I believe high-income nations...

A shocking 79% of female scientists have negative experiences during polar field work

Jun 06, 2024 11:28 am UTC| Nature

Every day, women are working on frontier science in Earths unforgiving polar environments. Our study, published today in PLOS Climate, investigated what their experiences are actually like. Fieldwork in the Arctic and...