European lynx populations live in a fragmented, transformed and human-dominated environment. Most lynx die at a relatively young age, most often due to poaching, hunting, natural factors and road accidents, the authors of the study report.
More and more new chemical substances are entering the sewage system - from medicines, cosmetics, plastics. According to Monika Żubrowska-Sudoł, PhD, from the Warsaw University of Technology, their separation and safe disposal from wastewater treatment plants is a huge problem.
Human activity generates characteristic noise patterns that can negatively affect the communication and behaviour of wildlife, says Maciej Adamiak, PhD, who, while studied the soundscape by 'eavesdropping' on nature along the Czarna River, the Pilica River and the Cieszanowice Reservoir.
Three new species of fungi found only in Oceania have been discovered by Katarzyna Patejuk, PhD, from the Department of Plant Protection at the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences. The discovery is the result of research during an expedition to New Zealand.
July temperature is the most important climatic factor affecting the distribution of elk, according to research on the impact of climate change and deforestation on changes in the range of moose in Eurasia over the last 50 thousand years.
Polish scientists have discovered and described how the position of ribosomes, or the protein-producing machinery, changes during the formation of a spore in Bacillus subtilis. The researchers have also shown what necessary changes must occur in the structure of the cell in order for a mature spore to form.
2024 was a record-breakingly warm year, but everything indicates that this record will be broken soon, says Bogdan Chojnicki, PhD, a professor and climate scientist from the Poznań University of Life Sciences. In his opinion, the increase in average temperatures will cause a serious drought in Poland within a few years.
Scientists from the University of Warsaw are set to embark on an ambitious search for traces of prehistoric human life in the high-altitude caves of Central Asia.
Wolves are very social animals that have a huge impact on the functioning of the entire ecosystem. That is why it is so important to protect them and get to know their true face, not the one based on stereotypes and myths, argues Sabina Pierużek-Nowak, PhD, a professor at the University of Warsaw.