ecology
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Your Cheap-Arse Bee House Is Probably Killing The Bees
It’s a noble cause—trying to help bees thrive as populations face catastrophic collapse. One of the ways folks have been doing this recently is by purchasing bee houses. Bees will build their nests and lay their larvae inside these cute little tube-filled wood boxes, which have become prevalent at garden centres. Seemingly all you have to…
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Camera Trap Snaps Photo Of First Known Albino Giant Panda
Using a motion-activated camera, scientists at Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China have snapped a blurry but unprecedented photograph of the world’s first known albino giant panda.
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Everything Is Fucked, Major New Extinction Report Finds
There has never been a period like this in the history of humanity. In a sweeping report delivered on Monday, the world’s top scientists warned that up to a million species could go extinct in the next few decades. But crucially, the report also shows the world has a choice about whether to let go…
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Atlantic Shipwreck Graveyard May Be Key Habitat For Imperiled Sharks
Photographs taken by citizen scientist scuba divers show that female sand tiger sharks develop an affinity to certain shipwrecks off the coast of North Carolina — a finding that could prove useful to conservation efforts.