Seasonal Blubber: How Yangtze Finless Porpoises Adapt
Blubber thickness of Yangtze finless porpoises changes with water temperature and varies across the marine mammal’s body regions.
Tag: environment
Bee Behavior Affected by Pesticides and Temperature
Climate change and pesticides spell double trouble for bee behavior, but pesticide risk to bees varies depending on the temperature.
Bee Phenology: How Are Bees Feeling the Heat?
Rising temperatures in recent years have been linked to observed shifts in bee phenology. These changes may impact pollination.
Underground Climate Change Is Sinking Our Cities
Climate change is not just in the air—underground climate change expands or contracts the earth, affecting the buildings above.
Genomics Takes On Crop Disease
Genomics opens the way for scientists to track where and which plants are affected most by rapidly spreading pathogens.
Play in the snow … for science!
These five citizen science projects call on you to observe your local weather and bodies of water, snow or no!
Fungi Bioblitz Follow-Up
Did you participate in the largest ever fungi bioblitz? Read about the citizen science push cataloging fungi diversity in North America!
Renewable Energy Sources FAQ
Renewable energy sources include wind, solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric power. In the battle for renewable energy, which will come out on top? Which do you want?
Climate Change Threatens California Pikas
The beloved American pika is losing its habitat. These little animals could loose 75 percent of their range quite soon to climate change.
Exploring Antarctica with Photography
At a remote Antarctic outpost, cameras capture time-lapse images of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Antarctica shows climate change.