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Scientific Reports - First national survey of terrestrial biodiversity using airborne eDNA

<p>Help us get a snapshot of water quality across the whole River Brent Catchment as part of London Rivers Week.</p><p><br></p><p>Join a team of Citizen Scientists to gather water quality samples at n...

Psychopharmaceuticals are an emerging group of hazardous contaminants that pose a risk to the aquatic environment. Yet, modern wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) do not remove them sufficiently to all...

Earth's lakes are experiencing an alarming drop in oxygen levels, new research shows.

Hundreds of thousands of arthropod species use silk to capture prey, build protective structures, or anchor eggs. While most silk-producers are terrestrial, caddisflies construct silken capture nets a...

Scientists race to discover new species before destruction of natural world drives them to extinction

Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

It is unclear why flying insects congregate around artificial light sources. Here, the authors use high-speed videography and motion-capture, finding&nbsp;that insects fly perpendicular to light sourc...