27-06-2012To determine whether environmentally realistic levels of imidacloprid are capable of making a demographic impact on bumble bees, we exposed…
27-06-2012A huge proportion of Canada’s bird species are in serious decline. Overall, there’s been a 12 per cent drop in…
24-06-2012Australian bird species are in crisis with at least 50 endangered or critically endangered. Federal Environment Department figures show 23…
23-06-2012For millennia, the flute-like song of the Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) signaled the beginning of spring in the Willamette Valley.…
23-06-2012For most of 1961, the American biologist Rachel Carson had locked herself in her cottage in Colesville, Maryland, to complete…
21-06-2012The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species released today its annual report. The report…
20-06-2012Ground-foraging insectivores are prominent among the 26 species considered ‘declining woodland birds’ in southern Australia but the mechanisms driving their…
20-06-2012The RSPB's annual wildlife survey has recorded the lowest number of starlings in UK gardens for 30 years. Since the…
20-06-2012Biologists at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have discovered that a small dose of the commonly used…
19-06-2012Native stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae) are key pollinators in neotropical areas and are threatened with extinction due to deforestation…
