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News Articles: ecology

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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By:
  • 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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By:
  • 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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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A female cockroach considers accepting a sugary offering from a male cockroach.

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  • Science

These cockroaches tweaked their mating rituals after adapting to pest control

The German cockroach evolved to live only in human environments. This roach is very good at adapting to pest control methods — even if it means changing its mating rituals.

March 31, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Researchers were able to detect DNA from elephants at the Copenhagen Zoo simply by sampling the air nearby.

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  • Science

Scientists vacuum zoo animals' DNA out of the air

Researchers who detected environmental DNA, or eDNA, in two zoos say the technique could one day be used to look for endangered species in remote locations in the wild.

January 10, 2022
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
The team at Coastal Ecology Lab collects tissue samplings of the hatchlings.

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  • Animals

Okefenokee Welcomes 25 Alligator Hatchlings

The Coastal Ecology Lab and its project partners, Okefenokee Swamp Park, welcomed new life on Monday in the form of 25 alligator babies.

September 14, 2021
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By:
  • Allexa Ceballos
Suzanne Simard is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia. Her own medical journey inspired her research into, among other things, the way yew trees communicate chemically with neighboring trees for their mutual defense.

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  • Environment

Trees Talk To Each Other. 'Mother Tree' Ecologist Hears Lessons For People, Too

Ecologist Suzanne Simard says trees are "social creatures" that communicate with each other in remarkable ways — including warning each other of danger and sharing nutrients at critical times.

May 05, 2021
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By:
  • Dave Davies
Tail of a right whale, tangled in blue fishing gear

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  • Environment

Georgia Today: After Mixed Calving Season, Advocates Say Time Is Running Out To Save Right Whale

The waters off the Georgia coast are a vital calving ground for the North Atlantic Right Whale. This calving season, which winds down in April, has been a rare bright spot for the critically endangered whales, with scientists counting more babies than in the last three seasons combined. But experts say the gains may not be enough to save the species. On this episode of Georgia Today, we hear the latest on efforts to protect the right whale.  

 

 

April 09, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
Cuban treefrog

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  • Animals

Watch For Invasive Cuban Tree Frogs In Georgia, Scientists Warn

The Cuban frogs first appeared in Georgia in 2004. They are raising concerns with the Department of Natural Resources because they are competing with native species for resources.

November 29, 2020
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By:
  • Emily Jones
Prairie strips in fields of corn or soybeans can protect the soil and allow wildlife to flourish. This strip was established in a field near Traer, Iowa, in 2015.

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  • Environment

How Absentee Landowners Keep Farmers From Protecting Water And Soil

America's vast fields of corn and soybeans have displaced wildlife and polluted waterways. Farmers could help solve those problems, but often don't, in part because they rent that land.

July 14, 2020
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By:
  • Dan Charles
Wildlife rehabilitator Kim Wright with some of the over 40 animals she is taking care of in the laundry room of her Byron home, including squirrels, top left, and opossums, bottom, right.

Baby Season Is Busy Season For Wildlife Rehabilitators

It’s springtime in Georgia. The weather is warming, gardens are blooming and animals, well, they’re having babies. Lots and lots of babies. Sometimes,...

April 25, 2019
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  • Josephine Bennett
Craig Byron, a biologist at Mercer University in Macon, opens up a drawer of preserved mammal specimens he found while preparing to help the school's science department move to a new building.

Dead Animals In Drawers? It's Not Hoarding, It's Science

 The things you find in drawers when you move. Old credit cards. Single socks. Concert tickets. Phone chargers. Two foot long dead squirrels. Well,...

June 12, 2018
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
The last Carolina Parakeet died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1918.

The Life, Death And Future Of The Carolina Parakeet

The Carolina Parakeet was a wild bird in lots of senses of the word; it flew throughout the Southeast and Midwest, including along the Georgia coast....

April 30, 2018
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By:
  • Maura Currie and
  • Adam Ragusea

Gnats Are Moving Even As The Gnat Line Can't

If you live north of Macon, Columbus or Augusta and you think you’ve been seeing more gnats this year, you could be right. Even so, Jeff Burne says it...

March 28, 2018
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Puddles the Copperhead keeps cool in the face of a curious onlooker. To get help identifying a potential copperhead snake in the Atlanta area call 678-753-4302 or email pictures of the snake to atlantacopperheads@gmail.com.

Atlanta Group To Catch And Release Copperhead Snakes

A roomful of children closes in on Puddles the copperhead snake. She’s in a clear plastic box. And today she’s acting as an ambassador for a copperhead...

March 20, 2018
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By:
  • Emily Cureton
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