"In Kenya, The King Of The Jungle Faces A New Challenge — Ants"
"Researchers said big-headed ants started an “ecological chain reaction” in a Kenya conservancy, impacting lions and other animals".
Source: Washington Post, 02/06/2024
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"How Is Climate Change Spreading Neglected Tropical Diseases?"
"Global warming will cause a catastrophic rise in mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and chikungunya, spreading them to less affected places including Europe and the United States, a World Economic Forum (WEF) report said this month."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 01/31/2024
Where Has All The Honey Gone? Scientists Explain Declining Yields
"It’s a question that has bedeviled beekeepers across the US in recent years: where has all the honey gone? Scientists now say they have some answers as to why yields of honey have declined, pointing to environmental degradation that is affecting all sorts of bees, and insects more generally."
Source: Guardian, 01/09/2024
"The Dark Side of Bright Nights"
"Light can be deadly. Many animals and plants are threatened by artificial light. Numerous organisms have found their evolutionary niche in the dark of night, and now have to adapt to bright nights. Not all of them succeed."
Source: DW, 12/21/2023
"What’s on the Menu When Your Cat Goes Out? Probably More Than You Think."
"Free-ranging cats hunt or scavenge more than 2,000 species, some of them imperiled, according to a new study."
Source: NYTimes, 12/13/2023
"Disinformation Is One of Climate Summit’s Biggest Challenges"
"As the world’s leaders gather this week at a major summit to discuss ways to address the effects of global warming, one of the greatest obstacles they face is disinformation." "Online influencers, fossil fuel companies and some of the countries attending COP28 have nourished a feedback loop of falsehoods."
Source: NYTimes, 12/01/2023
US Will Protect Wolverines As Climate Change Melts Their Mountain Refuges
"The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed threatened species protections under a Biden administration proposal released Wednesday in response to scientists’ warnings that climate change will likely melt away the rare species’ snowy mountain refuges and push them toward extinction."
Source: AP, 11/30/2023
"Leave It To Beavers? Not If You’re A Wolf."
"This is what happens when an apex predator collides with an ecosystem engineer."
"Beavers are influential. By cutting trees and damming streams, these rodents change the world around them, raising water levels and creating habitats for diverse plants, insects, fish and more. They are some of the world’s best-known ecosystem engineers, a term for species that produce outsize effects on their environments.
Source: NYTimes, 11/09/2023
Numerous Miles-Long Oil Spills Seen On Pittsburgh’s Iconic Mon River
"Oil sheens up to 18 miles long have repeatedly been reported by an environmental advocacy group on the Monongahela River over the last six months. The site of the recurring pollution is only a few miles from where the Monongahela River merges with the Ohio River, which provides drinking water to more than five million people."
Source: EHN, 11/08/2023
Warming And Habitat Loss Shrink Pollinator Numbers, Threaten Coffee, Cocoa
"Changes in the climate and land use are combining to dramatically shrink the numbers of insects pollinating key tropical crops. As those problems interwine and intensify, it likely will hit coffee lovers right in the mug, according to a new study."
Source: AP, 10/13/2023
