Did you know that approximately 9500 species of trees could potentially disappear in the near future? And the estimation is more realistically between 12000 and… Read more »
Vertical greening Contemporary architecture is increasingly focusing on vertical greening systems as a means to restore the environmental integrity of urban areas,… Read more »
WARNING: Do not ingest, toxic! Poison frogs (family Dendrobatidae) are some of the most spectacularly colored members of the animal kingdom and like many other… Read more »
Why I am fascinated by barrier islands I grew up in the arid southwestern United States, far from the ocean. When I moved to… Read more »
Leopard seals are top predators in the waters around Antarctica, where they are infamous for their relentless predation upon… Read more »
In this post, Professor Mauro Guida describes the Caatinga, Brazilian Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest
Why do we need bees? Along with its contribution to crop production of approximately 35% of all food in the world, animal… Read more »
In this post Professor Almo Farina describes Ecoacoustics, the new entry between disciplines that investigate the ecology of the… Read more »
The main idea of biosemiotics is that life and semiosis, or sign exchange, are coextensive. Biosemiotics is dedicated to building… Read more »
In this post Doris Preininger of the Vienna Zoo describes how some frogs use various signal modalities to get their message… Read more »
