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News Articles: ecology

Many of the loblolly and slash pines felled or nearly felled by Hurricane Helene at Broxton Rocks in Coffee County were part of a nursery for longleaf pine seedlings being nurtured by the Georgia chapter of the Nature Conservancy.

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  • Environment

A South Georgia ecological oasis, slammed by Hurricane Helene, faces an uncertain future

The Southern landscape now experiencing the effects of climate change has already seen centuries of loss of wild places due to human industry. Now, climate-change-strengthened storms threaten the pockets of older Southern ecologies that remain.

October 31, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
 The central European bicolored ant, <em>L. emarginatus</em>, forages along a tree branch in New York City’s Riverside Park.

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  • Science

Meet the ManhattAnt, the ant that's taken New York's streets by storm

The ManhattAnt has become the dominant ant species in the Big Apple, and scientists aren't sure why.

August 14, 2024
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Conservation biologist Gliselle Marin carefully untangles a bat from a net in Belize during the annual Bat-a-thon. Her fanny pack is decorated with printed bats.

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  • Science

This scientist has a bat tat and earrings. She says there's a lot to learn from bats

Gliselle Marin joins the “Bat-a-thon,” a group of 80-some bat researchers who converge on Belize each year to study these winged mammals.

August 13, 2024
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  • Ari Daniel
Some researchers say the African coral tree has a racial slur embedded in its name. This month, scientists at an international meeting voted to have that epithet removed.

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  • Science

Some plant names can be racist. Scientists are looking to rename them

An international group of researchers has voted to modify the scientific names of more than 200 plant species whose names carry a derogatory word.

August 01, 2024
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  • Ari Daniel
When Australia's black flying foxes are well-fed, they tend to be healthy. A lack of food stresses the bats — and stress causes them to shed, or release, viruses into the environment.

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  • Global Health

How do we halt the next pandemic? Be kind to critters like bats, says a new paper

A team of scientists argue that new vaccines and treatments wouldn't be critical if humans could figure out how to stop viruses from spilling over from animals in the first place.

March 26, 2024
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  • Ari Daniel
A sea otter in the estuarine water of Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Bay, Calif.

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  • Research News

California sea otters nearly went extinct. Now they're rescuing their coastal habitat

California sea otter populations have rebounded in recent decades. New research finds that by feasting on shore crabs, these otters are helping to protect their coastal marsh habitat against erosion.

February 08, 2024
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  • Ari Daniel
Spiderwebs can act as air filters that catch environmental DNA from terrestrial vertebrates, scientists say.

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  • Research News

Need to track animals around the world? Tap into the 'spider-verse,' scientists say

Spiderwebs can capture environmental DNA, or eDNA, from vertebrate animals in their area, potentially making them a useful tool in animal monitoring, tracking and conservation.

February 01, 2024
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  • Ari Daniel
Do you know this goose? Researchers have developed a new facial recognition tool for geese that can ID them based on their beaks.

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  • Technology

Enhance! HORNK! Artificial intelligence can now ID individual geese

Yes, that's right, somebody has developed AI for goose faces.

November 02, 2023
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
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  • Science

These American birds and dozens more will be renamed, to remove human monikers

The official naming organization for birds in the U. S. is making a bold move, after concerns were raised about birds being named after people with questionable histories.

November 02, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
A Sphinx moth mailed from Texas to the USGS Lepidoptera Research Collection.

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  • Science

See a dead butterfly? Stick it in the mail, for science — and maybe help the rest survive

When you see a dead butterfly, put it an envelope, stamp it and stick it in the mail. Scientists want to see if certain contaminants are present in butterflies, and may be why so many of the insects are in steep population decline.

August 01, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
Sally Sierer Bethea is a retired riverkeeper and author of the new book, "Keeping the Chattahoochie".

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  • News

Retired riverkeeper reflects on 'Keeping the Chattahoochee'

Sally Sierer Bethea's new book, Keeping the Chattahoochee, is part love letter to the river, part call-to-action for those who want to protect it.

July 12, 2023
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  • Peter Biello
Devils Hole pupfish gather on the precious rocky shelf that supports their entire fragile existence in the wild.

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  • Science

Against all odds, the rare Devils Hole pupfish keeps on swimming

The Devils Hole pupfish's natural habitat is a single water-filled hole in a cave in the Nevada desert. Its numbers at one point dwindled to just 35 animals. How does it manage to survive?

July 07, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
A Mexican free-tailed bat emerges from a bat box mounted behind the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon recently.

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  • Science

How you can count bats in the name of science

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is asking everyday people to help by counting bats on summer evenings. 

May 17, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
Blowups, barracks and houses of peat help form the mosaic that the Okefenokee presents from overhead. Credit: Justin Taylor

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  • Environment

Georgia’s hedge against climate change: the Okefenokee’s peat

Peat, the foundation of the Okefenokee Swamp and of wetlands around the world, serves as an important global hedge against climate change.

May 04, 2023
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  • Mary Landers
Vince Stanley props up a sapling and its rootball.

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  • Environment

Genetically engineered trees in a Georgia forest mark a first in the nation

A California-based company claims it has doubled the growth rate of their GMO trees. What may be even more exciting to Georgia growers — and the heart of the business model — is what the company promises about how much carbon this new forest can store.  

April 13, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
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