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Schematic illustration of no-analogue lake water temperature conditions. The black curve denotes simulated mean water temperature from 100 computer model simulations, responding to external forcings (volcanos, aerosols, greenhouse gas concentrations), and grey shading indicates the range of naturally occurring lake temperature variations.

Unprecedented warming threatens earth’s lakes and their ecosystems

A bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) feeds from a sunflower.

The plants you need to keep bees on a healthy diet have been revealed

infographic on biodiversity

Saving Earth’s Biodiversity: Scientists Pinpoint Crucial 1.22% of Land to Protect

Chimp resting

Chimpanzees Self-Medicate with Forest Plants, Study Reveals

Prairie set at Kellogg Biological Station in Hickory Corners, Michigan. Note Monarch in the center part of the image.

Insecticides Linked to Dramatic Butterfly Decline in American Midwest

Screenshots capturing the first definitive videographic evidence that at least one leech species, Chtonobdella sp. from Madagascar, can jump. The images show the leech coiling back in preparation before launching itself into the air.

Leaping leeches! Video Footage Confirms Madagascar Home to Jumping Critters

Reconstruction of the earliest sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere: Nothosaurs swimming along the ancient southern polar coast, now part of New Zealand, around 246 million years ago. Artwork by Stavros Kundromichalis.

Ancient Sea Reptile Fossil Discovered in New Zealand Rewrites Evolutionary History

Hawk on a powerline in Los Angeles

Study shows unexpected pockets of biodiversity pepper Los Angeles

fish in the ocean

New Model Reveals Most Marine Protected Areas Fail to Safeguard Rare Migratory Fish

Harbor porpoises need to eat 2000 fish a day to meet their energy needs. Not because it's demanding to swim, dive and hunt as they are streamlined and very energy efficient. They simply need vast amounts of energy to keep warm in the cold water.

Noisy Motorboats Disrupt Hunting and Threaten Survival of Denmark’s Harbor Porpoises

Threats to pollinators

Climate Change Poses Grave Threat to Pollinators, Imperiling Biodiversity and Food Security

Nightly automated photography revealed which animals are the main consumers of the fruit: camel crickets (A: Diestrammena japonica, B left: Diestrammena brunneri), ground beetles (B right: Synuchus sp.), earwigs (C, D top: Eparchus yezoensis) and woodlice (D bottom, E: Porcellio scaber).

Tiny Invertebrates Like Woodlice and Earwigs Found to Disperse Seeds, Setting New Record

Fireflies lighting up a backyard in New York.

Expert says fireflies aren’t going extinct, but their numbers are dwindling

Protecting endangered monkeys from poachers, habitat loss

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