Archive for May, 2025

Help Wanted: The Many Ways Scientists Are Turning Birds Into Feathered Field Assistants
May 18th, 2025

Via Audobon, a report on how – from frigatebirds and gulls to curlews and cormorants – researchers are tapping the ”Internet of Animals” to map, understand, and protect our changing world: In the late 1990s, as an ecologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Martin Wikelski guesses he drove every mile of the Prairie State’s backroads […]

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Enlisting Paparazzi to Save a Gigantic Fish
May 18th, 2025

Via Nautilus, a look at how crowd-sourced data on the giant sea bass suggest it’s making a rebound The giant sea bass lives up to its name—the bulky fish can stretch up to nearly 9 feet long and weigh more than 500 pounds. It has a pretty massive fan club, too: The beloved bony fish […]

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New technical innovations such as location-tracking devices, GPS and satellite communications, remote sensors, laser-imaging technologies, light detection and ranging” (LIDAR) sensing, high-resolution satellite imagery, digital mapping, advanced statistical analytical software and even biotechnology and synthetic biology are revolutionizing conservation in two key ways: first, by revealing the state of our world in unprecedented detail; and, second, by making available more data to more people in more places. The mission of this blog is to track these technical innovations that may give conservation the chance – for the first time – to keep up with, and even get ahead of, the planet’s most intractable environmental challenges. It will also examine the unintended consequences and moral hazards that the use of these new tools may cause.Read More

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