Christina Larson, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Wildlife workers relocate Tristram’s storm petrels on Hawaii’s Tern Island, March 29. Scientists are making a dramatic effort to save the birds in Hawaii by moving them to an island they never had inhabited.

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Moving species, previously taboo, emerges as last resort in face of climatic changes

by Christina Larson Associated Press, and Matthew Brown Associated PressJanuary 17, 2023

In a desperate effort to save a seabird species in Hawaii from rising ocean waters, scientists are moving chicks to a new island hundreds of miles away.Moving species to save them — once considered taboo — is quickly gaining traction as climate change…

Glass frogs live on leaves over tropical streams in South and Central America.

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Secrets of frog transparency revealed

by Christina Larson Associated PressDecember 22, 2022

Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren, centre, Jonas Aqvist, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, left, and Olof Ramstrom, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry announce the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. The winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry are Caroline R. Bertozzi of the United States, Morten...

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Nobel for chemists who made molecules ‘click’

by David Keyton Associate Press, Frank Jordans Associate Press, and Christina Larson Associate PressOctober 5, 2022

Monarch butterflies are shown at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif., Nov. 10.

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Monarch butterflies now endangered

by Christina Larson Associated PressJuly 21, 2022

Dachshund dogs wait in a box before competition at a dog show in Dortmund, Germany, Oct. 13, 2017.

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Study: Your dog’s personality may have little to do with its breed

by Christina Larson Associated PressApril 28, 2022

FILE - A dead green sea turtle washes up on the beach in the Khor Kalba Conservation Reserve, in the city of Kalba, on the east coast of the United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. More than one in five species of reptiles worldwide, including the green sea turtle, are threatened with extinction, according to a comprehensive new assessment of thousands of species published Wednesday, April 27, 2022, in the journal Nature. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

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One-fifth of reptiles worldwide face risk of extinction

by Christina Larson Associated PressApril 27, 2022

The stern of the wreck of Endurance, polar explorer’s Ernest Shackleton’s ship, is shown where it lies, 10,000 feet below the surface of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.

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Explorer Shackleton’s ship found

by Christina Larson Associated Press, and Jill Lawless Associated PressMarch 9, 2022

Bald eagles compete for a deer carcass in Montana earlier this month.

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Lead poisoning rampant in bald eagles

by Christina Larson Associated PressFebruary 17, 2022

This photo provided by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance shows a western burrowing owl standing outside its artificial burrow at the Rancho Jamul Ecological Reserve in San Diego County in 2014. (Michael Stevens/San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance via AP)

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Fake poop helps evicted owls settle into new neighborhood

by Christina Larson Associated PressJanuary 27, 2022

This undated photo shows a field location in Northwest Territories, Canada, where Canadian geologist Elizabeth Turner may have found the earliest fossil record of animal life on Earth.

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Ancient animal fossils found in Canada rocks

by Christina Larson Associated PressJuly 28, 2021