1. Rosemary liked this video of a scarlet siphonophore. (A siphonophore is in the phylum Cnidaria (jellyfish, sea anemones, corals, Hydra, siphonopores (think Portuguese Man-of-war)). (link)
2. Are Huge Tree Planting Projects More Hype than Solution? High-profile programs aimed at planting billions of trees are being launched worldwide. But a growing number of scientists are warning that these massive projects can wreck natural ecosystems, dry up water supplies, damage agriculture, and push people off their land. (link)
3. Kelp Pathogen Has Spread Across the Southern Ocean. (link)
4. Got Cicadas? Take a Picture and Help Entomologists Map Their Arrival. Periodical cicadas will emerge soon in N. Georgia. Here's a chance to help scientists determine their exact distribution. (link)
5. Early Humans' Brains Were More Apelike than Modern. Impressions that ancient brains left in fossilized skulls reveal that the first human ancestors to migrate out of Africa had much more primitive brains than previously thought. (link)
6. Bees in Your Backyard; an Intro to Bee Diversity in the U.S.; webinar with author and biologist Olivia Carril, coauthor of the book. (link)
7. I found this webinar really interesting: Intro to Phenology with Denise Ellsworth. A webinar about phenology and how to develop one for your area, using Ohio as an example. (link)
8. Ted LaMontagne likes this story by UGA graduate student James Chapin. It's about Florida's role as a beachhead for invasive species. (link)
9. Local honey is often recommended as a treatment for hay fever. Does it have any effect? (link)
10. A world in a bottle of water. Revolutionary techniques using traces of environmental DNA are analyzing entire ecosystems "from microbes to whales." (link)
2. Are Huge Tree Planting Projects More Hype than Solution? High-profile programs aimed at planting billions of trees are being launched worldwide. But a growing number of scientists are warning that these massive projects can wreck natural ecosystems, dry up water supplies, damage agriculture, and push people off their land. (link)
3. Kelp Pathogen Has Spread Across the Southern Ocean. (link)
4. Got Cicadas? Take a Picture and Help Entomologists Map Their Arrival. Periodical cicadas will emerge soon in N. Georgia. Here's a chance to help scientists determine their exact distribution. (link)
5. Early Humans' Brains Were More Apelike than Modern. Impressions that ancient brains left in fossilized skulls reveal that the first human ancestors to migrate out of Africa had much more primitive brains than previously thought. (link)
6. Bees in Your Backyard; an Intro to Bee Diversity in the U.S.; webinar with author and biologist Olivia Carril, coauthor of the book. (link)
7. I found this webinar really interesting: Intro to Phenology with Denise Ellsworth. A webinar about phenology and how to develop one for your area, using Ohio as an example. (link)
8. Ted LaMontagne likes this story by UGA graduate student James Chapin. It's about Florida's role as a beachhead for invasive species. (link)
9. Local honey is often recommended as a treatment for hay fever. Does it have any effect? (link)
10. A world in a bottle of water. Revolutionary techniques using traces of environmental DNA are analyzing entire ecosystems "from microbes to whales." (link)
11. Animal culture is so common that even fish and flies have it. (link)
12. Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are. (link)
13. Human-like intelligence in animals is far more common than we thought. Stories of clever animals abound, from pigs playing video games to monkeys trading mobile phones – now tests reveal that they don't merely act on instinct but can think flexibly, like us. (link)
14. Invasive earthworms, invasive plants and their effects on native species. (link)
15. How a Carnivorous Mushroom Poisons Its Prey. Scientists have known for decades that oyster mushrooms feasted on roundworms-and they've finally figured out how their toxins work. (link)
13. Human-like intelligence in animals is far more common than we thought. Stories of clever animals abound, from pigs playing video games to monkeys trading mobile phones – now tests reveal that they don't merely act on instinct but can think flexibly, like us. (link)
14. Invasive earthworms, invasive plants and their effects on native species. (link)
15. How a Carnivorous Mushroom Poisons Its Prey. Scientists have known for decades that oyster mushrooms feasted on roundworms-and they've finally figured out how their toxins work. (link)
16. Crown-shyness, tree crowns avoid colliding in 3D. A new metric quantifies the "puzzle-shape-ness" of tree crowns. (link)
