TRENTO, Italy (AP) — In a lush greenhouse high in the Alps, butterflies of various species and colors flutter freely while butterfly pupae are suspended in a structure as they grow into adult insects. This is the Butterfly Forest in the tropical mountain greenhouse in Trento, Italy, a project by the Museo delle Scienze (MUSE), […]
Earth is home to millions of discovered species of plants and animals with many more yet to be known. They all play vital roles in each other, their ecosystems, and the planet’s overall health and they make up what is known as biological diversity. But what exactly is biodiversity? It’s a shortened version of two […]
Corncrakes on the Aran Islands and sand martins in the Irish midlands are at the centre of projects set to benefit from biodiversity grants. A partnership between philanthropy and Government is supporting 78 schemes which aim to protect endangered species and habitats. The grants are the latest in a joint biodiversity fund, an initiative of […]
Monmouth University hosted Doug Tallamy on Jan. 23 for a talk on creating a Homegrown National Park Network, by growing native plants in our own backyards. Tallamy is a professor of Entomology at the University of Delaware and best-selling author of the book “Nature’s Best Hope.” Tallamy’s talk focused on what individuals can do in […]
Monmouth University hosted Doug Tallamy on Jan. 23 for a talk on creating a Homegrown National Park Network, by growing native plants in our own backyards. Tallamy is a professor of Entomology at the University of Delaware and best-selling author of the book “Nature’s Best Hope.” Tallamy’s talk focused on what individuals can do in […]
Earth has millions of fungi species, but the official emoji library has only one: Amanita muscaria, the red-capped, white-spotted mushroom found in fairy tale picture books and Super Mario Brothers. A staggering 180,000 species of butterflies and moths flit about this planet, yet their lone emoji avatar is a generic blue butterfly that looks like […]