Abhishyant Kidangoor

2 weeks ago | news.mongabay.com | Abhishyant Kidangoor

A new report has found that protected areas and Indigenous territories in the Amazon store more aboveground carbon than the rest of the rainforest. Protected areas and Indigenous territories were also found to serve as significant carbon sinks between 2013 and 2022, absorbing 257 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. Protected areas in Colombia, Brazil, Suriname and French Guiana were found to be significant carbon sinks.

3 weeks ago | news.mongabay.com | Abhishyant Kidangoor

A new study has confirmed the long-held belief that birdsongs evolve as a result of age, population dynamics and movement of the birds. Researchers gathered thousands of hours of audio of great tits (Parus major) and used artificial intelligence to analyze songs in the data. They found that birds that move around a lot tended to know the popular songs, while the ones that didn’t had pockets with unique songs.

1 month ago | news.mongabay.com | Abhishyant Kidangoor

Snapshot USA is an annual project that aims to collate camera-trap data on mammals from across the country. Since it was launched in 2019, the project has received data from universities, Native American reservations, non-profit organizations and others from across the U.S.Over the past five years, the project has gathered data that include more than 890,000 image captures of mammals from about 12 million raw images.

1 month ago | news.mongabay.com | Abhishyant Kidangoor

Scientists have captured rare footage of female polar bears and their newborn cubs emerging from maternal dens in the Arctic. Using remote cameras and satellite collars, researchers were able to track down polar bear dens in Norway’s Svalbard region and get insights into their behavior. On analyzing the data, researchers found that the bears typically stayed in and around the dens for 12 days after first emerging from them; they were also found to abandon the dens earlier than previously thought.

1 month ago | news.mongabay.com | Abhishyant Kidangoor

Scientists have combined passive acoustic monitoring, machine-learning tools and aerial surveys to estimate the population of North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay. Using the method, researchers from Cornell University in the U.S. were able to estimate the daily population of the whales over a period of four months.