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Tag: Ecology

Let’s Get Our Shit Together—Literally

Posted on May 29, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

It’s time to give a crap about crap. To save animals, we need to save their poop. If a bear shits in the woods and a scientist is there to collect it, where will it be stored? The Poop Ark!

A space of functional beauty, the Poop Ark would preserve droppings, chips, turds, pies, frass, [...]  ...

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The Wetlands Are Drowning

Posted on May 24, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

Schoenoplectus americanus, or the chairmaker’s bulrush, is a common wetland plant in the Americas, and it has an existential problem. It has chosen to live in a place where it is always at risk of being drowned. 

Like all plants, the bulrush requires oxygen to produce energy. One solution is [...]  ...

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The Online Spider Market Is Massive—and Crawling With Issues

Posted on May 19, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

Stewart says public interest in spiders and scorpions has exploded as people realize they are actually low-maintenance pets that don’t need walking three times a day and can be kept in apartments or small homes without a backyard. “They’re fascinating creatures, and they’re [...]  ...

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The Desert’s Fragile Skin Can’t Take Much More Heat

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

“When you trample it, you’re resetting a clock that’s been going for a long time back to zero,” says Finger-Higgens, whose latest findings on biocrust degradation were published last month in PNAS. “And so now the system has to repair itself.”

To keep her plots devoid of [...]  ...

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The Queen Conch’s Gambit

Posted on April 30, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

Archaeologists don’t know exactly how many Taíno survived the enslavement, massacres, and diseases that marked the following centuries—though genetic sampling reveals significant Indigenous ancestry in contemporary Puerto Rico. But Taíno stories and artifacts stress the importance [...]  ...

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How Prescribed Burns Can Help Restore Eastern US Forests

Posted on April 23, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

By mid-afternoon, the team had seemingly painted fire onto the land, burning exactly where and what they wanted. The mature pines’ lower trunks were singed black, and the ground beneath them was charred and cleared of most of the tangled brush that had been there at the start of [...]  ...

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To Resurrect Jordan’s Lost Forests, People Plant Tiny Urban Ones

Posted on April 16, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

The team’s test plots also host some of Jordan’s rarest flora. In Marka, that includes saplings of Pistacia lentiscus, the wild pistachio tree—there are only about 50 left in the wild in Jordan—and Celtis australis, sometimes called a European hackberry, which is even more rare.

However, [...]  ...

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How Does a Newt Cross the Road? With Lots of Human Help

Posted on April 3, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

Around a hundred miles to the south of Chileno Valley Road, another group of volunteers—the Alma Bridge Newt Patrol—have been painstakingly documenting more than 5,000 newts a year that perish while crossing a 4-mile stretch of road in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Unlike Gale’s brigade, [...]  ...

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A Global Boom in Fences Is Harming Wildlife

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

Fence construction is growing rapidly throughout the world. An extension of the dingo fence is underway to add another 460 miles. Stout, often impermeable, fences are going up on national borders in Eastern Europe to deter migrants, and Europe now has more miles of border fences than [...]  ...

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The EPA May Extend the Use of Pesticides that Paralyze Bees

Posted on March 13, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

This story originally appeared on The Guardia and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The US Environmental Protection Agency is poised to allow the use of four of the most devastating chemicals to bees, butterflies, and other insects to continue in America for the next 15 years, [...]  ...

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