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 E-Mail IMAGE: Dr Tim Doherty, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, the University of Sydney. Photographed here with a sand goanna in Mallee Cliffs, NSW, Australia. view more  Credit: The University of Sydney For the first time, scientists have calculated the global impact of human activity on animal movement, revealing widespread impacts that threaten species survival and biodiversity. While it has been shown that activities such as logging and urbanisation can have big impacts...

Dr Tim Doherty, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Sydney, said it was already well known that humans affected the movement of animals, with thousands of studies tending to focus on single species or activities, but the information was disparate and hadn’t been synthesised. Doherty personally read the summaries of 12,000 research articles extracted from academic journals around the world, before joining colleagues to pull out 208 relevant studies with enough useful data on how human ac...

Human activity over the past 40 years has changed the behaviour of animals, increasing their movement by up to 70 per cent, a new study has warned. Researchers from the University of Sydney analysed 208 separate studies on 167 animal species published since the early 1980s to track animal movement. Human activity such as logging and urbanisation, as well as episodic events like hunting and military activity, disrupts animal movement as they flee humans or travel further to find mates and food, ...

The Pandemic Holiday Shopping Season Showed Us What The Future Of Retail Looks Like Bisnow A curbisde pickup reservation sign at an Atlanta Bread Co. in suburban Atlanta. Retailers that offered curbside pickup saw a 40% increase in demand for the service during the holiday season, according to a recent Adobe Analytics study. Already the pandemic was pumping up online sales for brick-and-mortar retailers that had curbside services, from 15% of all ...

Updated on December 23, 2020 at 6:06 pm NBC Universal, Inc. Vermont state officials are vowing to make conditions safe for women serving prison time and for those who work in correctional facilities. The push follows the release of an independent review Wednesday that found a troubling number of sexual misconduct claims associated with the states female prison. "One incident is too many," said Tris Coffin, an attorney with the firm Downs Rachlin Martin, which was hired by the Vermont Agency of ...