Scientists believe they’ve found a key cause for the mysterious decline in honeybees that have hit the American bee colonies particularly hard. It’s weakened immune systems linked to reduced biodiversity of plant life, according to a study by the French National Institute for Agriculture Research. The honeybee decline is a more important issue than most of [...]

Right whale mamas and their babies have been spotted in the endangered species calving grounds of the coast of Georgia. The Savannah Morning News reports: “Surveyors based on St. Simons Island have spotted three North Atlantic right whale calves, each flanked by its mother, off the Georgia coast since December, marking the first sightings this migratory [...]

The University of Georgia professors in two schools landed a $447,000 grant from NASA that will offer undergraduate students a chance to study the impact of climate change on birds, reports the Atlanta Business Chronicle.