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#1229012019-11-07
Rhode Island conditions excellent for growing world's most expensive spice: researchers
Saffron is the world's most expensive spice, selling for about $5,000 per pound at wholesale rates, and 90 percent of the global saffron harvest comes from Iran. But University of Rhode Island agriculture researchers have found that Ocean State farms have the potential to get a share of the mark ...
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#1229022019-11-07
Origins of life: new evidence first cells could have formed at the bottom of the ocean
Where did life come from? In recent years, many scientists have shifted from favouring a "primordial soup" in pools of water to hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean as the original source of life on Earth. But one of the biggest problems with this idea is that researchers have been unable to rec ...
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#1229042019-11-07
School children have too much phone time, not enough play time
New data shows some of the biggest issues confronting parents these days all seem to have one common element: smart devices.An overwhelming majority of Australians (nearly 92%) believe smartphones and other media have reduced the physical activity levels and outdoor playtime of children.
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#1229372019-11-08
Millions of seabirds rely on discarded fish
Millions of scavenging seabirds survive on fish discarded by North Sea fishing vessels, new research shows.University of Exeter scientists estimate that 267,000 tonnes of fish was discarded in the North Sea in 2010—enough to feed 3.45 million birds.
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#1229402019-11-08
Conservation scientists call for reverse to biodiversity loss
A group of international conservationists is urging governments across the globe to adopt a new approach to address the impact of economic development on the natural world. Renowned researchers, including University of Queensland scientists, aim to draw attention to what they call "net positive ...
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#1229572019-11-11
Study shows cover crops and perennials do not necessarily increase carbon storage in soil
The ability of cover crops to stimulate microbes deep in the soil of farm fields leads to significant gains in water quality but does not necessarily increase the capacity of soil to store carbon, according to a recently published study from Iowa State University scientists.
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#1229712019-11-13
Scientists find two identical-looking bird species have very different genes
While reports of species going extinct are sadly becoming common, an international team of scientists has identified a new species of bird living on the Southern coast of China, that diverged from their Northern relatives around half a million years ago.
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#1229742019-11-13
Research team discovers epigenetic pathway that controls social behavior in carpenter ants
Through early adulthood, exposure to new experiences—like learning to drive a car or memorizing information for an exam—triggers change in the human brain, re-wiring neural pathways to imprint memories and modify behavior. Similar to humans, the behavior of Florida carpenter ants is not set in s ...
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#1229802019-11-13
Toxic Algal Blooms Are Worsening with Climate Change
Researchers use remote sensing technology to carry out a global survey of large freshwater lakes.Every summer, vast blooms of harmful algae erupt in freshwater lakes across the United States. This year, blue-green mats of algae blanketed more than 1,500 square kilometers of Lake Erie’s surface b ...
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#1229922019-11-15
How multiple factors of climate change affect soil
A team of ecologists at Freie Universität Berlin studied soil and how it was affected by multiple factors of climate change. The team, led by Prof. Dr. Matthias Rillig, experimentally examined effects of up to 10 factors of climate change by randomly adding an increasing number of such factors.
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#1229962019-11-15
Plankton Biodiversity Mapped Globally
A team of scientists sailed around the world to catalog the diversity of plankton species in the ocean. Their findings have important economic implications as climate warms.
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#1229972019-11-15
Piling on the pressures to ecosystems
A multitude of anthropogenic pressures and perturbations now assault the world's ecosystems. The air is enriched with carbon dioxide (CO2), temperature extremes and droughts happen with increasing frequency, and a wide range of pollutants accumulate in the soil and water, including pesticides, m ...
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#1230012019-11-15
New research expands the answers we can get from bat guano
Here's the thing about bats: They can fly. And they do that in the dark.Those two factors make bats, which make up 20 percent of the mammal species, extremely difficult to study.
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#1230032019-11-15
Arctic Ocean could be ice-free for part of the year as soon as 2044
It's hard to imagine the Arctic without sea ice.But according to a new study by UCLA climate scientists, human-caused climate change is on track to make the Arctic Ocean functionally ice-free for part of each year starting sometime between 2044 and 2067.
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#1230322019-11-18
Are We Really in a 6th Mass Extinction? Here's The Science
For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth. The flip side to this explosion of new species is that species extinctions have also always been part of the evolutionary life cycle.
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#1230372019-11-18
Scientists Say: Species
This is a word that describes organisms that share genetic and physical traits and are more closely related to each other than to any other group. Scientists sometimes define species as a group of organisms with members that meet two requirements.
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#1230392019-11-18
Researchers in Japan uncover fossil of bird from Early Cretaceous
A combined team of researchers from Japan and China has announced the finding and study of the fossilized remains of a bird from the Early Cretaceous. In their paper published in the journal Communications Biology, the group describes where the fossil was found, its features and what it represen ...
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#1230402019-11-18
Fossil dig leads to unexpected discovery of 91-million-year-old shark new to science
A 91-million-year-old fossil shark newly named Cretodus houghtonorum discovered in Kansas joins a list of large dinosaur-era animals. Preserved in sediments deposited in an ancient ocean called the Western Interior Seaway that covered the middle of North America during the Late Cretaceous period ...
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#1230562019-11-19
Saving 'half Earth' for nature would affect over a billion people
As the extinction crisis escalates, and protest movements grow, some are calling for hugely ambitious conservation targets. Among the most prominent is sparing 50% of the Earth's surface for nature.
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#1230612019-11-19
Why We Need To Consider The Human Toll Of Conserving Half The Earth
Humanity has pushed Earth to the brink with more than a million species threatened with extinction. There are a number of ideas for how to stop the collapse of nature, but among the most radical is the idea of conserving half the planet.
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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.