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Scientists studying migrations, endangered species, and global change are placing tracking devices on thousands of animals that will be monitored by a satellite-based system set to launch next year.

Tracking animals from space using dedicated small satellites—that’s the goal of the global research initiative ICARUS. Plus: ...

The ICARUS project can observe the behavior of animals all over the world from space. The initiative might help research the spread of epidemics, ecological changes and natural disasters. In ...

“We’re about to have an internet of animals, and that’s super exciting.” So said Martin Wikelski, from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, on BBC Science Focus. Wikelski was ...

The German-Russian observation system for tracking animal migration patterns, ICARUS, will go into operation on 10 July 2019. In the subsequent test phase, the ICARUS engineers and scientists will ...

Due to the war in Ukraine, an ambitious project for global animal observation was prematurely terminated. Now a successor is in space. With a few days' delay, a small satellite was launched into Earth ...

THE idea that animals can forecast earthquakes is not a new one: the notion occurred to the Romans. For more than 2000 years, people have reported unusual animal behaviour just minutes or hours before ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Field biologists tend to be a patient lot, often resigned to long days and weeks in ...