A roadmap for species on the move from climate change
Scientists at The Nature Conservancy have identified and mapped a network of landscapes across the United States with unique topographies, geologies and other ...
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How to slow extinctions? Restore farmlands to nature
Over 70% of predicted animal and plant extinctions on land could be avoided by returning 30% of the world’s farmlands to nature. That’s the finding of a global ...
Beavers create fire-resistant forest patches
They chew down trees, dam up waterways and build wetland ecosystems that benefit a host of other species. Now, new research shows that beavers’ ecosystem ...
Lack of sea otters hurts Alaskan reefs
A combination of climate warming and loss of sea otters is harming the reefs that underpin Alaskan kelp forests in the Aleutian Islands. “Despite the fact that ...
TWS2020: Pond digging helps desert frogs survive drought
Mitigation measures to maintain ponds in Nevada meadows help the survival of a desert frog species experiencing increasing impacts from climate change-driven ...
TWS2020: Where do belugas spend their summers?
Beluga whales are likely choosing where to spend their summers in estuaries based on the prey available, researchers found. The western Hudson Bay is home to the ...
Caribou numbers drop in Labrador as climate warms
Labrador is relatively free of the landscape changes that have caused declines in caribou populations in other parts of Canada and Alaska. But even there, caribou ...
Fossil information can help inform future conservation
By looking at past ecosystem scenarios or paleo-archives, researchers are learning more about how wildlife may react to future climate change scenarios. These ...
Biological Diversity Working Group starts webinar series
The Biological Diversity Working Group of TWS recently launched a webinar series, and their next webinar, “Factors and Dynamics Affecting Species’ Adaptive ...
Q&A: ‘Unprecedented change’ erodes notion of natural range
According to traditional biology books, birds travel within geographic boundaries they’ve carved for millennia, while amphibians are found in a set series of ...