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#1230652019-11-19
Ocean could provide over six times more food than it does today
The ocean could provide over six times more food than it does now with better management and more technological innovation, scientists said on Tuesday, adding that boosting cultivation of bivalves like mussels and clams could be especially beneficial.
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#1231932019-12-02
Dead coral reefs could be revived by playing sounds of healthy reefs, finds study
There may be hope for restoring the damaged Great Barrier Reef in Australia as scientists have found that playing sounds of healthy coral reefs can attract fish, thus offering a way to potentially start the recovery of degraded reefs.
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#1231982019-12-02
Studies highlight fragility of Antarctic ecosystems
Two studies published in a special issue of the journal Science Advances this week highlight the fragility of the Antarctic and its ecosystems in the lead up to the UNFCCC COP25 meeting in Madrid next week.
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#1231992019-12-02
Ears all round: World's first acoustic observatory
You won't see stars at the Australian Acoustic Observatory but you will "see" a galaxy of sounds from around Australia.Wild and remote areas around Australia are part of the Australian Acoustic Observatory, the world's first "Google maps for sound' – hundreds of solar-powered sensors that contin ...
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#1232002019-12-02
New evolutionary insights into the early development of songbirds
An international team led by Alexander Suh at Uppsala University has sequenced a chromosome in zebra finches called the germline-restricted chromosome (GRC). This chromosome is only found in germline cells, the cells that hold genetic information which is passed on to the next generation.
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#1232012019-12-02
When reefs die, parrotfish thrive
In contrast to most other species, reef-dwelling parrotfish populations boom in the wake of severe coral bleaching.The surprise finding came when researchers led by Perth-based Dr. Brett Taylor of the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) looked at fish populations in severely bleached a ...
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#1232022019-12-02
Scientist anticipates breakthrough in Antarctic search for planet's oldest ice
It's summer in Antarctica, and scientists from all around the world are flying to research stations on the frozen continent as part of a now years-long campaign to uncover the world's oldest ice.
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#1232032019-12-02
Researchers develop early warning system for water pollution using tiny water fleas
Researchers at the University of Toronto are developing an early warning system for water quality and pollution that combines tiny water fleas and an instrument so sensitive it's able to detect changes at the molecular level.
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#1232092019-12-02
First operational mapping system for high-resolution tropical forest carbon emissions
For the first time, scientists have developed a method to monitor carbon emissions from tropical forests at an unprecedented level of detail. The approach will provide the basis for developing a rapid and cost-effective operational carbon monitoring system, making it possible to quantify the eco ...
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#1232132019-12-02
Nature-Based Climate Solutions Opportunity for Latin America
Protecting and restoring natural areas in Latin America, home to fifty percent of the planet’s biodiversity and over a quarter of its forests, is critical if the world is to avert a biodiversity and climate disaster.
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#1232222019-12-03
Biodiversity of The World Is Sinking Down
Biodiversity throughout the globe might be in a worse state than beforehand thought as present biodiversity assessments fail to bear in mind the lengthy-lasting effect of abrupt land modifications, a brand new examine has warned.
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#1232292019-12-03
Why is an ocean current critical to world weather losing steam? Scientists search the Arctic for answers.
Summer sea ice has been shrinking so dramatically here in the Fram Strait, high in the Arctic between Norway and Greenland, that researchers who make this trip annually point out missing patches like memories of departed friends.
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#1232322019-12-03
We May Finally Understand How Life Survived The Icy Hell of Snowball Earth
Life has faced many challenges as it has scrambled over this blue marble; many times, it has seemingly reached the brink, only to come back with surprising vigour. Now, researchers have finally figured out how living things could have survived a colossal glaciation event known as the Cryogenian ...
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#1232472019-12-04
Study Shows that Clowfish Can't Adopt to Climate Change
An international team of researchers from France's National Center for Scientific Research or CNRS monitored clownfish in the lagoons of Kimbe Bay. Kimbe Bay is known as a biodiversity hot spot in Papua New Guinea, and they recorded their research for 10 years.
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#1232522019-12-04
'The message of urgency cannot be overstated,' EU environment body warns
The EU is not on track to meeting the vast majority of environmental targets for 2020—and the outlook for 2030 and 2040 is even bleaker. This is the devastating verdict of the groundbreaking State of the Environment Report 2020 published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA).
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#1232542019-12-04
Fecal pellets and food remains reveal what ghost bats eat in the Pilbara
UWA, Curtin university and Perth zoo researchers have discovered that Australian endangered ghost bats in the Pilbara (WA) eat over 46 different species.
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#1232552019-12-04
Study reveals climate change impact on Antarctic penguins
Antarctic penguins have been on the forefront of climate change, experiencing massive changes to their natural habitat as the world's temperatures and human activity in the region have increased.
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#1232562019-12-04
The bizarre and ecologically important hidden lives of mosquitoes
Mosquitoes. Hordes of them, buzzing in your ear and biting incessantly, a maddening nuisance without equal. And not to mention the devastating health impacts caused by malaria, Zika virus and other pathogens they spread.
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#1232572019-12-04
Not everything needs to be a forest
Too often viewed as degraded forests rather than valuable grasslands, savannas are threatened by carbon-storing afforestation programs that might not even work.
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#1232622019-12-04
New biodiversity research project aims to heal land and people
An innovative new research project will aim to advance reconciliation in Australia by bringing together scientific expertise, history and Indigenous cultural knowledge to conserve the country’s precious biodiversity.
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#1232722019-12-04
Xinhua Headlines: Chinese wisdom taking root in Amazon rainforest
Little known is the fact that Chinese scientists have participated in joint research and biodiversity protection in the Amazon since 2008, contributing their wisdom to the world's largest tropical rainforest.
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#1233182019-12-06
Massive animals in Australia died from humans and climate change, study says
Nearly 42,000 years ago, massive animals such as 6-foot-tall birds, 23-foot long lizards and wombat-like creatures the size of a Buick could be seen roaming the countryside. But a new study has found that these megafaunas became extinct because of human intervention and climate change.
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#1233552019-12-10
Our new research is tracing the development of the world’s vital non-living nature
The health and wellbeing of humans is underpinned by the natural world. Living nature in the form of ecosystems and biodiversity is the world’s life support system. It is crucial, but under threat.
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#1233632019-12-10
Ice in motion: Satellites view decades of change
New time-lapse videos of Earth's glaciers and ice sheets as seen from space—some spanning nearly 50 years—are providing scientists with new insights into how the planet's frozen regions are changing.
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#1233642019-12-10
Benefits and risks for marine life from carbon dioxide removal approaches
A new IMAS study has identified potential benefits and risks for marine ecosystems from two of the key approaches for carbon removal proposed to cut atmospheric carbon levels and slow climate change.
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#1233652019-12-10
Researchers discover mysterious holes in the seafloor off Central California
During a recent survey of the deep seafloor off Big Sur, MBARI researchers discovered thousands of mysterious holes or pits in the seafloor. Scientists and resource managers want to understand how these pits formed because this area is the site of a proposed wind-energy farm.
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#1233792019-12-11
Scientists plan year locked in ice to unlock Arctic climate change data
More than 300 scientists from 19 nations are engaged in planned two- to three-month stints locked in polar ice on the German icebreaker RV Polarstern. Over the winter, researchers face constant darkness, frigid temperatures plunging to -45 degrees Celsius, and the threat of hungry polar bears ne ...
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#1233852019-12-11
Sound of science
Scientists are set to use data gained from ‘eavesdropping’ on nature to build a picture of Australia’s animal life.James Cook University’s Professor Lin Schwarzkopf said scientists are developing new acoustic analysis techniques to recognise different species.
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#1233962019-12-11
Researcher surveys Great Salt Lake playa
The flat dry lakebed (also called a playa) surrounding Utah's Great Salt Lake is more than 750 square miles—an area bigger than Houston. The wide-open landscape is surprisingly varied and is the realm of coyotes, bison, and a few hardy plants. It's probably safe to say that no one knows the Grea ...
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#1233972019-12-11
Researchers identify successful biological control for destructive fruit fly
A parasitic wasp has shown tremendous potential attacking and controlling spotted wing drosophila—an invasive, destructive fruit fly that costs Oregon growers close to a billion dollars a year, Oregon State University researchers have found.
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#1233982019-12-11
Can salmon eat their way out of climate change?
Warm waters are a threat to cold water fish like salmon and trout. But a study led by researchers at University of California, Davis suggests that habitats with abundant food sources may help buffer the effects of increasing water temperature.
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#1234002019-12-11
Antibiotic resistance and cancer: six surprising places scientists are looking for new drugs
Scientists recently announced the discovery of a novel antibiotic produced by bacteria living inside a nematode (roundworm). Although this molecule needs further analyses, the finding, published in Nature, brings hope to the fight against antimicrobial or antibiotic resistance, the growing abili ...
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#1234062019-12-12
Mass extinction of land and sea biodiversity 250 million years ago not simultaneous
Some 250 million years ago, simultaneous mass extinctions of marine and terrestrial life occurred in an event known as the End-Permian. Or so scientists believed.
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#1234132019-12-12
Examining how primates make vowel sounds pushes timeline for speech evolution back by 27 million years
Sound doesn't fossilize. Language doesn't either.Even when writing systems have developed, they've represented full-fledged and functional languages.
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#1234142019-12-12
How interacting with females increases aggression in male fruit flies
You probably behave differently when you are having a bad day than during a great one. For example, while you might politely smile at a neighbor you dislike on an otherwise pleasant Saturday afternoon, that same interaction will elicit a scowl when you are rushing off to work Monday morning.
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#1234182019-12-12
Deciphering the equations of life: A new theory describes what all animals have in common
Research led by the University of Arizona has resulted in a set of equations that describes and predicts commonalities across life despite its enormous diversity.
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#1234192019-12-12
Azteca ant colonies move the same way leopards' spots form
What could Azteca ants in coffee farms in Mexico have in common with leopards' spots and zebras' stripes?After two decades of analyzing the rise, spread and collapse of Azteca ant colonies in a coffee farm in Mexico, University of Michigan researchers have proven that the ant distributions follo ...
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#1234272019-12-12
Sulawesi art: Animal painting found in cave is 44,000 years old
A painting discovered on the wall of an Indonesian cave has been found to be 44,000 years old. The art appears to show a buffalo being hunted by part-human, part-animal creatures holding spears and possibly ropes. Some researchers think the scene could be the world's oldest-recorded story.
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#1234352019-12-12
Natural History Museum scientist contributes to new global report revealing human-driven decline of life on Earth
The first global-scale assessment of the links between people and nature provides the most comprehensive review to date of the worldwide state of nature.
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#1234532019-12-13
One of Europe's worst famines likely caused by devastating floods
Europe's Great Famine of 1315–1317 is considered one of the worst population collapses in the continent's history. Historical records tell of unrelenting rain accompanied by mass crop failure, skyrocketing food prices, and even instances of cannibalism.
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#1234542019-12-13
Amid the wasteland of the Salton Sea, a miraculous but challenging oasis is born
It came as a bittersweet surprise to biologists and government agencies monitoring the steadily shrinking Salton Sea's slide toward death by choking dust storms and salt.
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#1234622019-12-16
Study finds Chinese plant biodiversity at risk due to human activity
With intensifying human activity, many species are threatened with extinction. However, many other species have expanded their range. Is there a general rule to identify which species are "losers" or "winners"? And what is the effect of range changes on the biodiversity of Chinese flora?
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#1234672019-12-17
Rare species organize themselves into ghettos to survive
Researchers from UNIGE and Uméå show that to resist stronger species, rare animal and plant species group together in ghettos to help each other, maintaining biodiversity.
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#1234692019-12-17
New Study Shows Past Climate, Human Impacts Shape Present Mammal Biodiversity
A new study by U.S. researchers shows that climate changes and human impacts over the last 100,000 years continue to shape patterns of tropical and subtropical mammal biodiversity today, according to a release of Arizona State University.
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#1234702019-12-17
Events 20,000 Years Ago Still Impacting Diversity and Distribution of Mammal Species Worldwide
In the first study of its kind, researchers have discovered that events from 20,000 years ago or more are still impacting the diversity and distribution of mammal species worldwide.
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#1234712019-12-17
Limiting The Loss Of Nature
With only about half of Earth’s terrestrial surface remaining as natural vegetation, a University of Queensland-led team has proposed an international goal to halt its continued loss.
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#1234752019-12-17
Penguin study reveals Southern Ocean's Ice Age history
A new scientific study headed by the University of Otago has revealed important clues as to how Southern Ocean ecosystems responded to past global climate change events.
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#1234772019-12-17
Newly discovered retinal structure may enhance vision for some birds
A newly discovered retinal structure in the eyes of certain kinds of songbirds might help the animals find and track insect prey more easily.
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#1234782019-12-17
Leafcutter ants accelerate the cutting and transport of leaves during stormy weather
Leafcutter ants such as Atta sexdens or Acromyrmex lobicornis face two major challenges when they leave the safety of the nest to forage: choosing the best plants from which to collect leaves and avoiding being surprised by strong winds or heavy rain, which would prevent them from carrying out t ...
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#1234872019-12-17
Common species have seen a reduction in biodiversity
A new study conducted by the National University of Singapore (NUS) has indicated that the current biodiversity crisis may be affecting more species than previously thought.