Tag: Biology - Page 5
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Caroline Fraser on Rewilding the World (Podcast)
"Lose the animals, lose the ecosystems. Lose the ecosystems, game over." Caroline Fraser touched down in more than a dozen countries to understand what rewilding really means. Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution looks at how
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Ecomachines Use Plants and Animals for Low Impact Water Treatment (Video)
Dr John Todd's work creating living machines, or ecomachines, as a form of natural water treatment has long been of interest to TreeHugger. Back in 2005 Collin interviewed Dr Todd about his views on ecological design,
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Whales Forced to Shout as Oceans Get Noisier
As anybody who's ever gone to a dance club knows, it's not easy to have quality conversation in loud places -- but party-goers aren't the only ones who have learned to cope with the clamor. According to marine biologists studying
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Scientists Make a Nutty Discovery About Crickets
Sometimes when researchers explore the array of complex and fascinating creatures on this planet, what they find has power to renew our sense of wonder about nature, and even to change the way we look at life
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Photographic Evidence Proves That Squid Can Fly
Once, while boating off the coast of Jamaica in 2001, marine biologist Silvia Maciá and her husband caught a glimpse of an oddly familiar creature leaping from the waves, soaring with ease over the surface of the ocean. As the
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Healing from Global Warming May Take 100,000 Years
When it comes to human-caused global warming, news of the long-term effects is mixed. On the one hand, the planet will indeed recover from the damage we've done -- the only downside is that it will take 100,000 years, and
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What Can Squid Hear? And Why Does It Matter?
Ears are amazing. They help you keep balance, turn a newborn's face towards its mother's voice, and alert us to escape danger. Increasingly, these wondrous organs are the target of new frontiers in environmental protection. Human
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TED Talk: Are Plants Intelligent Beings?
When talking about plant intelligence, I think of that scene in Notting Hill with the fruitarian who believes all plants have feelings and so will only eat fruit that has "fallen from the tree or bush
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Humpback Whale's Journey Breaks Distance Record
What could drive a female humpback whale to travel a quarter of the world, shattering mammal migration records? The quest to find a mate, of course. The whale's journey took her from the coast off south Brazil all the way to
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Malaysia Messes With Mosquito Genes to Fight Dengue Fever
Mosquitos are the bane of humans as they're a primary way diseases from malaria to dengue fever are spread. Malaysia has been fighting a frustrated battle with dengue fever, and might become the first
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Fascinating New Species Found in Papua New Guinea
When it comes to finding fascinating species previously unknown to science, it turns out that forests of Papua New Guinea are a darn good place to look. Researchers have recently disclosed their
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Ocean May Hold 750,000 Species Not Yet Discovered
Sure, you've heard there are plenty of fish in the sea -- but according to biologists there may be even more than you ever imagined, many more. After ten years mapping the ocean's
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Deodorant May Help Save Stinky Endangered Birds
For most of history, life on New Zealand was pretty easy for the island's native bird species -- until the arrival of humans and the invasive species they brought with them, that is. These birds had no natural predators on land to
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Researchers Cut 600,000 Names From Global Plant List
Photo via ~jjjohn~ You like to-may-toes and I like to-mah-toes Up until recently, botanists believed that there to be over one million types of flowering plants on Earth, but now about 600 thousand of those species my soon be cut from the list -- but
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Pollution May Be to Blame for Swan's Killing Spree
Swans may be regarded as symbols of love and harmony, but sometimes they too can be downright mean -- and one such bird in Wales may be the meanest of them all. Aptly named 'Hannibal', this bird has been on a rampage since the
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Chinese Villagers Try to Annoy Away Invasive Boars
Farmers in China's eastern province of Zhejiang have been facing a wild boar problem -- and they've found a novel way of combating it. In the last 10 years, the animals' numbers have skyrocketed, to the point where they are devastating crops and
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Lady Snails Found Growing Penises (On Their Heads)
A shockingly high percentage of female sea snails off the coast of Perth, Australia, have been found with a troubling new feature - penises growing from their heads! Researchers say that at one point, 100 percent of the snail
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Beached Whale Defies Death From 'Lethal Injection'
For the last six days, a 50-foot-long right whale has been stranded on a beach in Brazil, still alive but too weak to return to the sea - and for the last six days, authorities have been puzzled with what to do with it. Teams of
