Tag: Climate Change

Long-term wildlife movement studies in the Arctic are hard to come by. That’s because they can be expensive, requiring tags that communicate through satellite networks that require subscriptions. When movement...

When Andrew Smith hikes with his wife in the Sierra Nevada, he often wears a T-shirt with a picture of a pika on it. The image of the charismatic, rabbit-like...

Scientists at The Nature Conservancy have identified and mapped a network of landscapes across the United States with unique topographies, geologies and other characteristics they believe can withstand climate impacts....

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 roadmap published...

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 engineering might have another benefit...

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 the Aleutian Archipelago...

Mitigation measures to maintain ponds in Nevada meadows help the survival of a desert frog species experiencing increasing impacts from climate change-driven droughts. “Drought is one the greatest threats to...

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 largest known population...

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 numbers are falling —...

By looking at past ecosystem scenarios or paleo-archives, researchers are learning more about how wildlife may react to future climate change scenarios. These records of past landscapes and climate —...