A struggle to find prey: How climate change is affecting bat echolocation
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With people at home, more space to roam: How COVID affected bird behavior
While people tend to focus on COVID-19’s disruption to our daily routines, there was a separate world of consequences for wildlife. Animals have always had to adapt to the changing behaviors of human civilization by moving their habitats and adjusting their usage of resources like food, water, and shelter to maximize survival. The COVID-19 pandemic
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A silent threat: How Northeastern researchers are stopping the spread of dangerous industrial chemicals
Many of us have the privilege of being able to use convenient and efficient items in all aspects of our lives. We use non-stick cookware to avoid having to viciously scrub their stainless steel counterparts after a long day of work. We use stain-resistant clothes that have the added benefit of being water-repellant. This privilege
Scientists study the Nord Stream methane leak in the Russia-Ukraine War
War brings environmental concerns. Examples that typically come to mind include Agent Orange, nuclear weapons, deforestation — and now, energy. In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin initiated a military invasion of Ukraine that has since put the European Union in a tailspin of major decisions concerning their future relations with Russia, with energy being
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Supercontinents, superplumes, and true polar wander
Beneath the African continent and the Pacific Ocean; two mantle superplumes, massive areas of the mantle with different seismic wave velocities and different compositions; exist. These large areas are associated with most hot spot volcanoes and large provinces of volcanic rock on the Earth’s surface. Their formation is linked to the supercontinent cycle, the cyclical
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How electric vehicles are futurizing the electric grid
Electric vehicles (EVs) currently make up about 1% of the cars in the United States. Economic and technology analysts expect this number to soar up to at least 70% by 2050, drastically increasing the amount of energy Americans are pulling from the electric grid. Cars in America guzzle 369 million gallons of gas every day.
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City lights and bird flights: How human activity affects migration
The tradition of treating travelers with respect has been a long-held one, spanning many cultures and periods. As early as the Greeks and Romans, townspeople were hospitable to any and every stranger in the hopes that one may be a god in human form testing them. However, it isn’t hard to find winged travelers that
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Monarch migration: A trip of a lifetime
The monarch butterfly exhibits perhaps the most advanced migration pattern of any insect. Their migration pattern is equivalent in complexity to that of birds, demonstrating a two-way migration. This consists of migrating from point A to point B multiple times. Point A refers to the location the butterflies reside from late March to early October.
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Back to Basics: A Bird’s Preference for Native Species over Their Invasive Counterparts
As food availability in the Northern Hemisphere decrease in the fall, many birds travel southward. This seasonal trend of mass travel is known as migration. To prepare for a large migration, birds often stock up on fruits and other food sources. But with invasive plant species overtaking their native counterparts, birds are struggling to obtain
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