On 15 January 2022, an underwater volcano in the South Pacific sent an extraordinary amount of…
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In 2011, conservationists dropped 75 tonnes of poisoned bait on Henderson Island; only about 60–80 rats survived, but within two years their population was back to roughly two-thirds of its former level
Henderson Island (Image credit: Canva) In 2011, Henderson Island, a remote and uninhabited island in the…
After World War II, a few snakes reached Guam; they now number up to 30,000 per square mile, and scientists found 19,000 hidden genetic changes
Brown tree snake (Photo: Canva) After World War II, a small number of brown tree snakes…