Millions-of-years-old insect symbioses are surprisingly fragile

More inclusive secondary schools see fewer students dropping out of education and becoming "not in education, employment or training" (NEET), according to new research from Leeds academics. Schools that are considered more inclusive because they use fewer suspensions, support lower-achieving pupils to make good progress, and have their own post-16 provision see fewer young people dropping out of education or training after Year 11, the data shows. The study is published in the journal Royal Soci

Accents are usually thought of as a human trait, indicating where a person has grown up or the communities they belong—and new research shows the same dialects can also occur in Australia's largest carnivorous bat.

Only 25% of newly-delineated priority areas identified for the protection of freshwater fishes in Colombia overlap with existing protected areas, according to a recent study published in Diversity and Distributions by the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). Strikingly, the required amount of area is similar to that of the existing protected areas. However, a more efficient spatial distribution would be important. This finding is in line with another study, publish

The Mediterranean Sea is undergoing rapid ecological transformations driven by climate change and human-mediated species introductions. Among the most striking processes is the increasing arrival and establishment of non-indigenous species entering through the Suez Canal, a phenomenon known as Lessepsian migration.