May 19, 2022 — Praying mantises have gained recent popularity as pets, sold at animal fairs and pet markets, but also collected in the wild by a fast-growing community of hobbyists and professional marketers. An ...

Apr. 21, 2022 — The animal collections housed at zoos and natural history museums -- living specimens in the first case, preserved in the other -- constitute an exhaustive trove of information about Earth's ...

Apr. 7, 2022 — New research shows that private protected areas help conserve underrepresented biomes and highly threatened regions. Researchers have assessed 17,561 privately protected areas in 15 countries across ...

Mar. 31, 2022 — Skin cells and their DNA varies between individuals, but new data shows that some groups of people have higher variability in their cell deposits. The South Australian forensic science researchers ...

Mar. 7, 2022 — A new study from cognitive scientists offers an answer to why legal documents such as contracts or deeds are often so ...

Feb. 16, 2022 — A new study among young Danish men confirms the assumption that risk-tolerant, impatient and self-centered people are more likely to commit crimes than risk averse, patient and altruistic people ...

Oct. 13, 2021 — Illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade affects biodiversity, ecosystem services, people's livelihood, and economies all over the world. Worldwide experts warn about the perils related to this ...

Oct. 7, 2021 — It is commonly assumed that any important scientific knowledge would be available in English, and so scientific knowledge used in international studies is predominantly sourced from English-language ...

Sep. 7, 2021 — The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has pledged to protect 30% of land to support the recovery of nature, but a new study finds that much of the new land that has been allocated to meet this ...

Aug. 17, 2021 — New research has found that the habitats of West African (western) chimpanzees are threatened due to inadequate legislative protection from human ...

July 29, 2021 — Conservation science and policy could be saving more biodiversity by shifting to measurements and decisions based on preventing the loss of ecosystems and species within protected ...

July 8, 2021 — In a new article, researchers provide an overview of sample preparation techniques and information on routine sample types that may be encountered in forensic toxicology ...

June 29, 2021 — A conclusive narrative review has found physical punishment of children is not effective in preventing child behavior problems or promoting positive outcomes and instead predicts increases in ...

June 22, 2021 — The story of efforts to conserve the endangered oribi in South Africa represent a diaspora of issues as varied as the people who live ...

May 6, 2021 — Researchers describe the improved mathematical methodology of an open source tool called Gerrychain, which can help observers detect gerrymandering in a voting district plan by creating an ensemble ...

Apr. 20, 2021 — Concern tends to ratchet up a notch when pollution enters the river runoff discussion on a national scale, specifically when smaller, navigable intrastate bodies of water push pollution into larger ...

Apr. 19, 2021 — A new study classifies different types of wildlife traffickers and sellers in two of Central Africa's growing urban centers, providing new insight into the poorly understood urban illegal ...

Mar. 24, 2021 — Rich false memories of autobiographical events can be planted - and then reversed, a new article has ...

Feb. 22, 2021 — Using laws governing human rights may be the best way of harnessing international legislation and tribunals to protect the Amazon, a new study ...

Feb. 22, 2021 — The Netherlands, United States, Australia and New Zealand are consuming the highest amounts of designer 'party' drugs, according to wastewater samples taken from eight countries over the ...