In a remarkable ecological initiative, over 140,000 invasive goats have been eradicated from three areas of the Galapagos Islands. This operation, costing $10.5 million, aims to rejuvenate the habitat for native wildlife. Using judas goats fitted with transmitters, conservationists pinpointed the remaining invaders. Following their removal, the area’s native plants are thriving once again, supported…

Every spring, millions of migratory fish leave the Atlantic Ocean and swim into freshwater rivers to reproduce, continuing journeys that have existed for thousands of years. On Maine’s Penobscot River, however, hydroelectric dams blocked many of these ancient migrations for more than a century, causing dramatic declines in species such as American shad, river herring,…

Grade 9 student, Akshat Anand, wins gold for wearable that detects IV leaks early (Photo credit: Surrey Schools) At just 13 or 14 years old, most Grade 9 students are still getting comfortable with science fair pressure. Akshath Anand of Surrey Academy of Innovative Learning did something far bigger: he walked into the Canada-Wide Science…

Image Credit: Journal of Lost Species Some discoveries happen the moment a specimen is collected. Others take years. In this case, it took nearly two decades.A tiny deep-reef fish brought up from the waters off South Australia in 2006 spent nearly two decades in a museum collection after being mistaken for a known species. According…

Representative Image of marine life thriving around resilient chicken kidney sponges in polluted waters (AI-generated image) Researchers in Spain spent 455 days tracking how sponges from five species of Mediterranean sea life coped with being moved from clean, natural habitats toward a heavily polluted recreational marina near Girona. The experiment was designed to test a…