KOCHI: A three-day survey of odonates, organised jointly by the Society for Odonate Studies and the state forest department, ...

In the vast landscapes of African savannas and Asian forests, elephants trek across miles of terrain each day, leaving behind more than just massive footprints in their wake. These gentle giants, ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In a move hailed as a long-overdue conservation victory, Sri Lanka ...

Aside from destroying a hydropower project and killing 55 people, the October 2023 glacial lake outburst flood in Sikkim also left significant changes in water depth, quality, and floodplain structure ...

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1 The Mina & Everard Goodman, Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. 2 School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. The determination of live ...

Scientists have uncovered how sundews, Charles Darwin's favorite plant, become more carnivorous in certain habitats. Researchers from Loughborough and Gloucester universities found that they alter the ...

New research shows flies can tolerate temperatures 2.3°C lower than bees before losing motor function, making them particularly vulnerable to climate change and raising concerns about their crucial ...

Globally, savanna trees experience bottlenecks to recruitment. Likelihoods are low that juveniles, especially of nonclonal, reseeder species, will survive and reach sizes that survive recurrent fires.

Balancing the biomass requirements of different functions for the purpose of population reproduction and persistence can be challenging for alpine plants due to extreme environmental stresses from ...