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Habitat
The specific natural environment where a particular species lives is concerned as its habitat. A habitat could be any place where organisms can find food, shelter, appropriate climate, mates for reproduction.
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MAY 15, 2022Earth & The Environment
Volcanic eruptions are some of the most awesome spectacles in nature, as watching the interior of the planet we live on ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 08, 2022Microbiology
African fruit bats are the natural hosts of Marburg and Ebola viruses, both of which are filoviruses. These RNA viruses ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 03, 2022Plants & Animals
Climate change has been a burning topic in recent years. Numerous United Nation reports highlight the dangers of climate ...Written By: Ryan VingumAPR 01, 2022Chemistry & Physics
Forgot expensive mechanical detectors; the newest innovation in chemical weapons is blowflies. Students led by Nick Mani ...Written By: Hannah DanielMAR 11, 2022Earth & The Environment
Humans have always been obsessed with cataloging and categorizing plants and animals. Plants, being stationary, have bee ...Written By: Samantha LottMAR 08, 2022Plants & Animals
Three 18th c. women scientists, Maria Sibylla Merian, Catharina Dorrien, and Jane Colden, helped found taxonomy but are ...Written By: Brittany Kenyon-FlattMAR 06, 2022Plants & Animals
Sharks play crucial roles in marine ecosystems. As predators, they loom large at the top of many marine food chains and ...Written By: Ryan VingumFEB 23, 2022Technology
Animal diversity has consistently been on the decline for a number of reasons (including habitat loss and human-driven c ...Written By: Ryan VingumFEB 02, 2022Plants & Animals
Save the Redwoods League, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving redwood forests, has returned 215 acres of C ...Written By: Ryan VingumJAN 25, 2022Earth & The Environment
Tropical reefs are facing threats from climate change from multiple angles: warming waters, more acidic waters, invasive ...Written By: Samantha LottJAN 21, 2022Genetics & Genomics
Life on earth is rich with diversity, and while we know a lot about some organisms, there is still so much more to learn ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 18, 2022Earth & The Environment
We know plastic trash is bad for the environment and bad for animals. But most of the time, it is hard for us to see and ...Written By: Samantha LottDEC 31, 2021Earth & The Environment
Light pollution is a newly recognized source of pollution with many complexities. What is light pollution to one person ...Written By: Samantha LottDEC 09, 2021Earth & The Environment
Unfortunately, it’s commonplace to hear about our seas being polluted with plastic. Many articles and research pro ...Written By: Matthew LundyDEC 07, 2021Plants & Animals
Plastic pollution has been a problem for some time, particularly in the ocean. An estimated 12 to 13 billion tons of pla ...Written By: Ryan VingumNOV 16, 2021Plants & Animals
The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most biodiverse locations on Earth, home to more than 3 million different species. I ...Written By: Ryan VingumNOV 13, 2021Earth & The Environment
River ecosystems receive many inputs from human activities upstream. Rivers bring these inputs out to the ocean, where t ...Written By: Samantha LottOCT 30, 2021Earth & The Environment
Microplastics are becoming more and more common across the globe in all sorts of places. News about levels in ani ...Written By: Samantha LottOCT 14, 2021Plants & Animals
In recent years, the number of insects in a given ecosystem (biomass) and the number of insect species (biodiversity) ha ...Written By: Ryan VingumOCT 04, 2021Plants & Animals
According to a recent announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, also called the & ...Written By: Ryan VingumOCT 03, 2021Earth & The Environment
This weekend, an oil slick was spotted off the coast of southern California, about three miles from Newport Beach, south ...Written By: Samantha LottOCT 02, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Reporting in Nature Communications, scientists have suggested that every living snake on earth evolved from just a handf ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 30, 2021Cannabis Sciences
Cannabis has been legalized for medicinal or recreational purposes in many US states, which is thought to be driving a r ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 29, 2021Cardiology
Human activities such as burning fossil fuels have been the primary driver of climate change over the past two centuries ...Written By: Christopher DiMaio
MAY 15, 2022
Earth & The Environment
Volcanic eruptions are some of the most awesome spectacles in nature, as watching the interior of the planet we live on
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 08, 2022
Microbiology
African fruit bats are the natural hosts of Marburg and Ebola viruses, both of which are filoviruses. These RNA viruses
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 03, 2022
Plants & Animals
Climate change has been a burning topic in recent years. Numerous United Nation reports highlight the dangers of climate
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
APR 01, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
Forgot expensive mechanical detectors; the newest innovation in chemical weapons is blowflies. Students led by Nick Mani
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
MAR 11, 2022
Earth & The Environment
Humans have always been obsessed with cataloging and categorizing plants and animals. Plants, being stationary, have bee
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
MAR 08, 2022
Plants & Animals
Three 18th c. women scientists, Maria Sibylla Merian, Catharina Dorrien, and Jane Colden, helped found taxonomy but are
...
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
MAR 06, 2022
Plants & Animals
Sharks play crucial roles in marine ecosystems. As predators, they loom large at the top of many marine food chains and
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
FEB 23, 2022
Technology
Animal diversity has consistently been on the decline for a number of reasons (including habitat loss and human-driven c
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
FEB 02, 2022
Plants & Animals
Save the Redwoods League, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving redwood forests, has returned 215 acres of C
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
JAN 25, 2022
Earth & The Environment
Tropical reefs are facing threats from climate change from multiple angles: warming waters, more acidic waters, invasive
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
JAN 21, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Life on earth is rich with diversity, and while we know a lot about some organisms, there is still so much more to learn
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 18, 2022
Earth & The Environment
We know plastic trash is bad for the environment and bad for animals. But most of the time, it is hard for us to see and
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
DEC 31, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Light pollution is a newly recognized source of pollution with many complexities. What is light pollution to one person
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
DEC 09, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Unfortunately, it’s commonplace to hear about our seas being polluted with plastic. Many articles and research pro
...
Written By:
Matthew Lundy
DEC 07, 2021
Plants & Animals
Plastic pollution has been a problem for some time, particularly in the ocean. An estimated 12 to 13 billion tons of pla
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
NOV 16, 2021
Plants & Animals
The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most biodiverse locations on Earth, home to more than 3 million different species. I
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
NOV 13, 2021
Earth & The Environment
River ecosystems receive many inputs from human activities upstream. Rivers bring these inputs out to the ocean, where t
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
OCT 30, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Microplastics are becoming more and more common across the globe in all sorts of places. News about levels in ani
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
OCT 14, 2021
Plants & Animals
In recent years, the number of insects in a given ecosystem (biomass) and the number of insect species (biodiversity) ha
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
OCT 04, 2021
Plants & Animals
According to a recent announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, also called the &
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
OCT 03, 2021
Earth & The Environment
This weekend, an oil slick was spotted off the coast of southern California, about three miles from Newport Beach, south
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
OCT 02, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Reporting in Nature Communications, scientists have suggested that every living snake on earth evolved from just a handf
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 30, 2021
Cannabis Sciences
Cannabis has been legalized for medicinal or recreational purposes in many US states, which is thought to be driving a r
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 29, 2021
Cardiology
Human activities such as burning fossil fuels have been the primary driver of climate change over the past two centuries
...
Written By:
Christopher DiMaio