Nature & Environment : Science World Report

Mar 30, 2020 01:06 PM EDT

How Animals Understand Numbers Influences their Chance of Survival

While they can't pick out precise numbers, animals can comprehend that more is, well, more. From birds to bees and wolves to frogs, animals use numbers to hunt, find a mate, return to their home, and more--and researchers believe that this ability to process and represent numbers, known as numerical...

Mar 30, 2020 12:57 PM EDT

Ecosystem Services are Not Constrained by Borders

What do chocolate, migratory birds, flood control and pandas have in common? Many countries benefit from ecosystem services provided outside their nations. This can happen through economic relationships, biological and geographical conditions, but we hardly know how and where these ecosystem service...

Irrigation Worsened Earthquake-Triggered Landslides (IMAGE)

Oct 14, 2019 01:47 AM EDT

Rice Irrigation Worsened Landslides In Deadliest Earthquake Of 2018 Finds NTU Study

Irrigation significantly exacerbated the earthquake-triggered landslides in Palu, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in 2018, according to an international study led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists.