By Kevin Rozario, Taylor Shaw, Melissa Marselle, Rachel Rui Ying Oh, Erich Schröger, Mateo Giraldo Botero, Julian Frey, Valentin Ștefan, Sandra Müller, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Kris Verheyen, and Aletta Bonn. Read the full paper here. We are facing a global biodiversity crisis. Besides tremendous ecological implications, biodiversity loss also threatens mental wellbeing, as biodiversity…
Two women hug each other as a boy cries after reaching the shores of the Greek island of Lesvos, a day after the deadly wreck of October 28, 2015. [Santi Palacios/AP] He grabbed a piece of driftwood with one hand and tried to keep his son’s head above water with the other. He’d lost sight…
It turns out the Dark Ages weren’t all that dark! According to new research, medieval medicine was way more sophisticated than previously thought, and some of its remedies are trending today on TikTok. A new international research project featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York reveals that people in the Middle Ages…
Listen to the sounds three different plants might make if they were stressed Animals react to sounds being made by plants, new research suggests, opening up the possibility that an invisible ecosystem might exist between them. In the first ever such evidence, a team at Tel Aviv University found that female moths avoided laying their…
The demographic crisis affecting Greece is deepening on its islands, with Lemnos and Agios Efstratios emerging as stark examples of shrinking populations, aging residents, and dwindling birth rates — trends that threaten the long-term viability of local communities. On Lemnos, an island of approximately 16,000 residents, just 100 births are registered annually. Of these, only…
New preliminary research suggests that a combination of higher atmospheric CO2 and hotter temperatures contribute to a reduction in nutritional quality in food crops, with serious implications for human health and wellbeing. Most research into the impact of climate change on food production has focused on crop yield, but the size of the harvest means…
Researchers raise concern of native species being outcompeted by non-native honey bees, which were found to extract nearly 80 percent of available pollen in a day at a key hotspot of bee biodiversity The majority of the earth’s plant species, including our crop plants, rely on the services of animal pollinators in order to reproduce….
Botanists from the University of Copenhagen and the UK set out to find the best flower combinations for bees and hoverflies. The results make it easier for garden owners and municipalities, among others, to plant the perfect pantries for insects, which also delight the human eye. Flower strips, seed mixtures, and wild by design. We…
Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks – essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The team of Kenyan, U.S., Austrian, and Swiss scientists found that the trees could draw carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it as calcium carbonate ‘rocks’ in the surrounding soil. The…
When you think of the great Greek philosophers, Aristotle’s name is usually at the top of the list, but what about the man Aristotle himself chose to take his place—Theophrastus? Theophrastus, Aristotle’s successor at the Lyceum, took his mentor’s groundbreaking empirical methods and pointed them in a new direction: inwards. Theophrastus was the man who…