It’s ‘nature’s sports drink’: Ants live off urine on dry Australian island
Insects crave the urine of people, kangaroos, and other animals, likely to survive the island’s nutrient-scarce environment. They even prefer it to sugar water.
Dancing chimpanzees may reveal how humans started to boogie
Hattori has now published her research showing that chimps respond to sounds, both rhythmic and random, by “dancing.”
Legal Petition Urges Trump FDA to Label Fruit Sprayed With Antibiotics
It follows the Environmental Protection Agency’s emergency approvals of the medically important antibiotics streptomycin and oxytetracycline for use as pesticides on citrus and other crops over the past three years.
IUCN Acting Director General’s Statement on International Migrants Day
According to UNHCR, the global population of forcibly displaced people stood at around 70.8 million in 2018, and is now at its highest recorded level.
Mysterious monarch migrations may be triggered by the angle of the Sun
Monarch tags are revealing the pace and timing of this butterfly’s annual migration.
New website aims to gather all those camera trap mugs of wildlife
The Wildlife Insights platform will help analyze and share camera trap images.
More severe wildfires may decrease northern goshawk habitat
As wildfires become more intense and frequent in the western United States, northern goshawks may be losing important landscapes they rely on in California’s Plumas National Forest.
Meet 8 Trailblazers Who Are Changing the Climate Conversation
These leaders come from the grassroots and positions of power, from the left and the right, from arts and science, but they share one thing in common: the urgency of this moment.
Nature Notes: The importance of water for wildlife
A clean water source is important for wildlife.
Those Pigeons Wearing Cowboy Hats? They’re No Laughing Matter.
While the internet got a kick out of the latest meme, Mariah Hillman rushed to the scene to save the wild birds from danger or even death.