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62% of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) designated to protect rare migratory fish species are outside of their core habitats, according to a new modeling study.

According to a new modeling study, 62% of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) designated to protect rare migratory fish species are outside of their core habitats. The findings are published in the Journal of Applied Ecology.

A large quantity of fossils from the period just before and during the last ice age have been discovered in French Guiana. The area changed from a species-rich mangrove system to a dry grassland savannah in a relatively short period of time. So writes an international group of researchers, including UvA scientists Carina Hoorn and Nina Witteveen, in the scientific journal PNAS.

In Japan, the rare and beautiful 10-day cherry blossom "front" is set to start 10 days earlier this year due to global warming. Here's what travellers need to know.

This was no freak occurrence: 2023 tied with 2020 and 2021 for a record-early bloom – the definitive earliest since scientific records began in 1953, and earliest since 812, according to historical documents from Kyoto.

Birds are very sensitive and can easily be confused, suffer accidents, and their path shifted by noises like fireworks.

Concerned about safety at the global climate summit and wanting to make their protests count, researchers stage demonstrations elsewhere. Concerned about safety at the global climate summit and wanting to make their protests count, researchers stage demonstrations elsewhere.

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Bewick’s swans fly less far during their autumn migration when the weather is warm. Climate change has therefore led to a shift in their common wintering areas. Now, for the first time, bird researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the

Bewick’s swans fly less far during their autumn migration when the weather is warm. Climate change has therefore led to a shift in their common wintering areas. Now, for the first time, bird researchers have been able to pinpoint the specific choices that individual swans make.