Scientists from Białystok have found traces of microplastics from packaging film and plastic bags in the gastrointestinal tract of blackbirds and song thrushes.

Over the past 120 years, the vast majority of peatlands in high latitudes - mainly in the Arctic - have undergone major changes. More than half of the studied wetlands have dried, and a third became more wet.

Transposons, known as jumping genes, can 'cut themselves out' from the DNA, and then paste into its another, often precisely selected place. Scientists view them as the future of genome editing. Polish researchers have recently completed a difficult task: they described the key protein related to the action of the transposon when this is 'getting ready to jump'.

The widely held assumption that any important scientific information would be available in English underlies the underuse of non-English-language science across disciplines. Meanwhile, they often provide important information on the protection of biodiversity in the world, says Dr. Joanna Kajzer-Bonk, a biologist from the Jagiellonian University.

A leading ecologist says that although we often deal with populist consumption of art and nature, there are studies that show that 'profit and populism are not obvious choices.’

When did organisms learn to synthesize vitamin D? How did its functions change throughout our evolution, and how did this affect the entire Homo sapiens species? Professor Carsten Carlberg answers these questions in his latest scientific publication.

According to Dr. Michał Żmihorski, director of the Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Białowieża, monitoring of animal mortality in the Oder, as well as a professional methodology, would make it possible to determine the contamination mechanism faster and minimize its effects more efficiently.

Plans to transport European bison from Poland to Chernobyl in Ukraine have been put on hold because of the ongoing war.

The improvement of city gardens and vegetable crops on walls of residential and office buildings as well as soilless hydroponic cultivation on the roofs of buildings is the goal of researchers from the Gdańsk University of Technology.