Environment & Sustainability

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In Mozambique, four isolated mountains yield four new chameleon species

Scientists have identified four new-to-science species of chameleons inhabiting four distinct, isolated mountains in northern Mozambique. These mountains — Namuli, Inago, Chiperone, and Ribáuè —are granite inselbergs rising sharply from the arid savanna. They act as “sky islands” or ecological…

African elephant genomes reveal ancient mixing — and modern pressures

A continent-wide genomic study of both savanna and forest elephants in Africa has found that African elephants once roamed widely, both species exchanging genes throughout their range.  However, as humans decimated elephant populations for their ivory and fragmented their habitats…