Tracking sea otter tool use to inform conservation
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris) biologists have combined forces with archaeologists to develop new ways to track past activity of the marine mammals. The collaboration ...
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Balloons play an outsize role in seabird deaths
Parents may want to think twice before allowing their children to let balloons fly off into the atmosphere. When seemingly harmless latex balloons end up in the ...
Climate change has birds migrating earlier
Climate change has pushed migratory birds to take their spring trips a week earlier than they did six decades ago. According to a large-scale analysis of data ...
When wiki goes wild
Patterns in the natural world can be reflected in the virtual world, researchers found. Looking at Wikipedia page view records, they found people’s online ...
2019 Call for Abstracts now open!
The workshop, symposia and panel discussion proposals have been rolling in for a few months now, and now it’s your chance to submit an abstract for the first-ever ...
Simple techniques could shift sea turtle sex ratios
A team of researchers has found successful conservation strategies that could mitigate the impacts of climate change on sea turtles. Working on the Dutch Caribbean ...
One month left to submit conference proposals
This is an exciting year! The Wildlife Society and the American Fisheries Society will hold their first-ever joint conference in Reno, Nevada, Sept. 29–Oct. 3. ...
Searches for conservation increase online
An analysis of Google searches suggests public interest in conservation is on the rise. Using an adapted version of Google Trends, Princeton University researchers ...
A viral lesson in science communication
When Texas A&M University marine biologist Christine Figgener uploaded a video of her team pulling a plastic drinking straw from the nose of an olive Ridley sea ...
With limited recovery dollars, transparency is key
While initiatives like the Endangered Species Act help, researchers say there’s not enough funding to recover all listed species. That leaves federal agencies ...