Halting deforestation and promoting restoration are at the core of strategies to confront the biodiversity and climate crises in tropical forests. Avoiding forest disturbances is also critically impor...

The increasing prevalence of artificial light at night (ALAN) is of growing ecological concern. By altering natural light regimes, ALAN affects the behaviour, physiology and life-history of organisms...

El recién posesionado Abelardo de la Espriella no activa un llamado a otros países, a pesar de los múltiples ofrecimientos

Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...

Find out how to register for the European Congress for Behavioural Biology (ECBB) 2026 at ARU, Cambridge, 1-4 September 2026.

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The increasing reliance on international scientific collaboration to address biodiversity loss has brought renewed attention to the role of scientific diaspo...

Modern amphibians are characterized by an aquatic larval stage that ends abruptly with a period of widespread tissue remodeling (metamorphosis) upon transition to terrestrial adulthood. A transient la...

As the British naturalist celebrates a milestone birthday, we take a look at how his work has shaped science.

Nicht viele Menschen werden 100 Jahre alt. Und wohl die allerwenigsten von ihnen können auf ein Leben zurückblicken, wie David Attenborough eines hatte. Der britische Tierfilmer, Naturforscher und Sch...

In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing

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Fish swam further and dispersed more widely after exposure to environmental levels of drug and main metabolite Traces of cocaine that pollute rivers and lakes may accumulate in the brains of salmon and disrupt their behaviour, according to researchers who warn of unknown consequences for fish populations. Juvenile Atlantic salmon that were artificially exposed to the drug and its main breakdown product swam further and dispersed more widely across a lake, suggesting the substances can affect where the fish go, what they eat and how vulnerable they are to predators. Continue reading...