Plants Are Becoming Less Nutritious Because of Climate Change, Impacting Herbivores From Insects to Giant Pandas
More than a third of animals on Earth are herbivores, but since plants don’t have a lot of calories it can be hard for grazers to eat enough to meet their energy needs. To add to the problem, climate change is lowering the nutritional value of certain foods that these plant eaters rely on. Fossil […]
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How to Recycle Christmas String Lights
The holidays are a time for joy but also generate lots of waste. String lights…
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10 Green Living New Year’s Resolutions
The average person generates 4.9 pounds of waste each day, with more than 146 million…
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Wolves May Be Pollinators as Well as Predators, Study Suggests
Biologist Claudio Sillero first observed a curious behavior among Ethiopian wolves in the 1980s: these carnivores were licking the flowers of the red hot poker plant, native to Ethiopia’s highlands. New research now confirms this behavior and suggests that these wolves might act as unexpected pollinators. Published in Ecology in November, the study documents Ethiopian […]
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