[ad_1] (Bloomberg Opinion) — An 8.5-millimeter striped beetle. A 4-millimeter mosquito. A 25-millimeter hornet. These critters are tiny, but they pack a mighty punch when it comes to economic costs. The damage these organisms and their ilk are inflicting on regions around the world puts invasive alien species — non-native flora and fauna that harm the environments…
[ad_1] Leptobrachium aryatium, a new-to-science frog recorded from a reserve forest on the edge of Guwahati. Photo: Special Arrangement GUWAHATI A study spanning 21 years has yielded a new species of frog named after an Assam college that helped a locality shed its identity as a hub of country liquor production. Guwahati’s Aryanagar used to…
[ad_1] (Bloomberg Opinion) — When the European Union embarked on its Green Deal, Paule Lucht had good reason to believe that the initiative would benefit his family’s small organic farm, located in the former East German state of Saxony. The Luchts generate solar energy, grow diverse crops, make space for fauna to flourish, use no…
[ad_1] The woolly mammoths of Wrangel island were survivors. Trapped on a hunk of rock in the Arctic Ocean after rising sea levels cut them off from present-day Siberia, they were the last of their species to go extinct. Palaeontology textbooks have explained their eventual demise around 4,000 years ago as a classic case of…
