Scientists imagine bats first transmitted SARS-CoV-2 to people in December 2019, and whereas the virus has since developed into a number of variants similar to delta and omicron, a brand new examine signifies the virus remains to be extremely transmissible between mammals.

Scientists have developed a brand new science-based indicator to evaluate the state of well being of the oceans -- and the potential threat of extinction of their species. Latest biodiversity research present an unprecedented lack of species, ecosystems and genetic variety on land, however the extent to which these patterns ...

Invasive vegetation can have devastating results on native ecologies, similar to the consequences wrought by world warming. And but, there may be at present no dependable understanding of what number of invasive plant species there are on the earth. New analysis comprehensively pinpoints the assorted unknowns that should be addressed ...

A examine bu a conservation psychologist reveals overwhelming public ignorance of Australia's most threatened species, an element that's contributing to the extinction disaster of endangered animals.

In a brand new examine, Yale researchers have in contrast the proteomes of pores and skin cells from 11 mammals, which, they are saying, will assist scientists perceive the molecular drivers of biodiversity and the way these components have advanced over time. They discovered that whereas many proteins are equally variable ...

Hydropower developments ought to keep away from flooding forests to reduce biodiversity loss and disruptions to ecosystems in Amazonian forest islands, new analysis finds. Deforestation, habitat loss and fragmentation are linked and are driving the continued biodiversity disaster, with hydropower accountable for a lot of this degradation.

The world's governments are presently negotiating a International Biodiversity Framework, containing objectives and targets for saving nature, which is because of be adopted on the finish of 2022. Conservation consultants explored how the advised targets within the Framework, might contribute to lowering extinction threat of threatened vertebrates, invertebrates and crops. ...

Behavioral ecologists have found a option to harness animals' olfactory capability to guard susceptible vegetation and endangered animals.

A brand new botanical survey of southwest Ohio discovered that invasive species launched to the US over the previous century are crowding out many native vegetation.

Native species in California's estuaries are anticipated to expertise larger declines as invasive species work together with local weather change, in keeping with a brand new examine.