Confiscated pangolins test positive for SARS-CoV-2
Pangolins confiscated from the illegal wildlife trade in Vietnam have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in humans. In a new study published in Frontiers in Public...
U.N. climate change panel urges immediate climate action
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report Feb. 28 warning that climate change impacts are already happening, are more severe than previously thought, and that countries currently lack...
Caribou, muskoxen benefit rare vegetation
Conservation and management of populations of large herbivores like caribou and muskoxen on the Arctic tundra could help maintain rare plant species under climate change. Although it sounds strange, most...
Nations take action on plastic pollution treaty
Negotiators are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, this week to try to work out a new global treaty to reduce plastic pollution. The Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly...
TWS2021: Old bison horns can reveal lost ecological information
Long before wildlife managers struggled to translocate bison to new areas in an effort to recover lost herds, the giant bovines wandered across vast stretches of North America. While most...
TWS2021: Dredged material provides nesting areas for birds
Sediment dredged from the bottom of estuaries to improve shipping passages for boats can be formed into good island nesting habitat for coastal birds like black skimmers. Black skimmers are...
Searching for rare species in a forbidding environment
New techniques are giving biologists better tools to detect wildlife in some of the world’s most isolated locations. That includes underground water systems that host species that are poorly understood...
TWS2021: Cheat Mountain salamanders losing ground to climate
A rare salamander, endemic only to a few high elevation mountain tops in West Virginia, may lose all of its high-quality habitats by the end of the century due to...
In Albany, N.Y., gathering flocks are nothing to crow about
In the spring, Albany, New York, becomes home to thousands of crows. The noise and mess isn’t exactly welcomed by neighbors. So biologists with USDA-Wildlife Services is working to disperse...
