Seabirds, from cormorants to puffins, spend most of their lives at sea.
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Queensland Native Forestry Can Help Achieve Global Environment Goals
Research conducted by The University of Queensland has revealed that Queensland native forestry, including timber harvesting, could actually help conserve biodiversity and mitigate climate risks.
Anticipating and Tracking Climate Refugees in a Warming Africa
Managed retreat—the purposeful, coordinated movement of people and assets out of harm’s way—will be an increasingly necessary strategy around the world as rising global temperatures, erratic precipitation and increasing natural disasters place millions in need of safer ground.
Man-Made Materials Are Widespread in Birds’ Nests
We all discard a huge amount of plastic and other man-made materials into the environment, and these are often picked up by birds.
Poor Air Quality Found to Affect Mental Health in Many Ways
Led by Professor Kam Bhui at the University of Oxford's Department of Psychiatry, researchers in the UKRI-funded BioAirNet programme, analysed existing studies looking at the effects of both indoor and outdoor air pollution across the life course, from birth and pregnancy, to adolescence and adulthood.
Roots Are Capable of Measuring Heat on Their Own, New Study Shows
Plant roots have their own thermometer to measure the temperature of the soil around them and they adjust their growth accordingly.