More than 2,500 trees will be uprooted as construction works for new subway lines begin in Athens, Greece. This follows a devastating summer in which more than 110,000 hectares (424 square miles) of forest areas have burned, more than five times the average from 2008 to 2020. Granted, the new routes are expected to lower CO2 emissions, but environmental organisations claim the works could move forward without laying bare the already limited urban green areas. Alas, the easiest
Tag: ecology
Did warm-bloodedness result from the Permian extinction?
As life became more fast-paced due to the evolution of erect species, endothermy may have provided an advantage, allowing animals...
Sea otter decline accelerating effects of climate change
Sea otters. Image credit: Rick Derevan, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. In a new study published by the Bigelow Laboratory for...
RZSS share the impact of lockdown on conservation
Talking to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, who own Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park, Ailie McWhinnie investigates...
An Alien in Our Sea: A look at the intelligence of an octopus
Image credit: Elisabetta Lando In 2016, one of my favourite sci-fi films Arrival was released, and – mild spoiler alert...
A future without malaria?
Image credit: Pixabay The mosquito could easily be termed the ‘most dangerous animal in the world’ due to its capacity...
Sound: an invisible pollutant
When we think of ocean pollution, most of us visualise floating plastic, oil spills, or maybe even ocean acidification from...