Jan 6, 2016 | News, Wildlife Monitoring
Global warming in the Arctic means that ice fields are forming later and later in the year. Polar bears linger for longer on the coastlines. Their hunger pushes them to venture increasingly into Inuit villages, rummaging through dustbins, ravaging landfill sites,...
Dec 8, 2015 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Climate change will impact fishes in complex ways, from high-energy-demand species such as yellowfin tuna, to more sedentary animals such as tilapia. While the ability to predict these impacts is essential to adapting to climate-change, our current understanding of...
Dec 7, 2015 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Pacific leatherbacks, a species that is already in sharp decline due to development on nesting beaches, illegal egg harvesting and fisheries bycatch, may also be vulnerable to climate change. In a study lead by Ellen Willis-Norton, Argos tracking data collected from...
Dec 1, 2015 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Predicting the impact of future environmental changes on biodiversity is today a major challenge for ecologists. This is particularly true in the polar regions, where climate change is faster and more severe than anywhere else on the planet. In an article originally...
Nov 28, 2015 | Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The polar bear is an iconic apex predator whose specialized adaptations for capturing seals from the surface of the sea ice has allowed them to flourish in the Arctic marine environment for at least 500,000 years. Polar bears occur only in northern hemisphere seas...
Nov 22, 2015 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
In a world of increasingly variable climate, the Australian outback has long been known for its climatic extremes with its ‘droughts and flooding rains’. In this vast inland region of the Australian continent, rainfall is not only low – on average – but also highly...
