Is it time to move beyond the limits of 'built environment' thinking?

Oct 16, 2018 15:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

The constructed world around us provides the stage for our daily life. The term built environment is in the past tense, describing a scenario after the fact. What does it actually mean beyond the obvious connotation of...

Restocking wolves on Isle Royale raises questions about which species get rescued

Oct 16, 2018 15:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Isle Royale is one of the most remote U.S. national parks. It stretches across one large island, its namesake, and more than 400 smaller ones in northwest Lake Superior. The parks main draws are wilderness and wildlife,...

Eating royal poop improves parenting in naked mole-rats

Oct 16, 2018 15:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Have you ever seen a picture of a mother dog caring for an unusual baby, like a kitten? This sort of animal adoption story is an example of a phenomenon known as alloparenting: care provided to offspring that are not...

Sulawesi tsunami: how social media (and a lullaby) can save lives in future disasters

Oct 16, 2018 14:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Social media use is widespread in Indonesia, so people filming everyday scenes can sometimes inadvertently capture extraordinary environmental events. Of the viral videos to emerge of the recent earthquake and tsunami in...

In red and black, the genetics of ladybug spots

Oct 16, 2018 14:42 pm UTC| Nature

What is the difference between black ladybugs with red spots and red ladybugs with black spots? Children like adults have once asked themselves this question. So do scientists. Since the 1920s, there has been a growing...

Yes, a tsunami could hit Sydney – causing flooding and dangerous currents

Oct 16, 2018 14:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Sulawesis recent tsunami is a striking reminder of the devastating, deadly effects that the sudden arrival of a large volume of water can have. Published today, our new research shows what might happen if a tsunami hit...

How catching malaria gave me a new perspective on saving gorillas

Oct 16, 2018 13:40 pm UTC| Nature

Conservationists are in a desperate fight to save the last of the worlds gorillas. Numbers of some subspecies are so low that organisations are literally saving the species one gorilla at a time. A perhaps unlikely foe...