Month: October 2018

At a cabinet meeting Oct. 17, President Donald Trump asked all cabinet secretaries to reduce their agencies’ proposed budgets by 5 percent for fiscal year 2020. The call for cuts...

Researchers know that frogs, toads and salamanders have been facing steep declines in recent decades, but is climate change the main driver? Putting together data from across North America, including...

The U.S. Forest Service has released proposed changes to land management plans in five Western states intended to better protect greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), along with a draft environmental impact...

While initiatives like the Endangered Species Act help, researchers say there’s not enough funding to recover all listed species. That leaves federal agencies with difficult decisions. Researchers set out to...

LED lights have been proposed for use in airplanes to reduce bird strikes, but would these lights actually cause avoidance behavior in birds? Researchers recently tested how different wavelengths of...

Northeastern Puerto Rico’s insects, millipedes and sowbugs have declined exponentially as rainforest temperatures have increased, a recent study found. Researchers say a 2-degree Celsius increase since the mid-1970s has affected...

While forest fires have burned extensively this year throughout the West, even the biggest blazes can leave behind hidden pockets of unharmed landscape. Researchers say these areas of unburned or...

If you want to know how healthy an ecosystem is, wouldn’t it help to have a list a vital signs — the sort of summary a doctor uses to check...

The following student chapter news was included in the September 2018 newsletter of the Southeastern Section of The Wildlife Society. Photos of student chapter activities are also included in the...

A new 10-part series has launched on Animal Planet taking viewers inside Alaska’s wildlife refuges. On “Into Alaska,” the camera follows a refuge law enforcement officer responding to capsized boaters,...