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#1251722020-04-17
COVID-19: Bio-Weapon Or Zoonotic Disease From Destroyed Biodiversity? – Analysis
Humans, when faced with a life-threatening situation they are unprepared for, often resort to a blame-game. Nations faced with a prospect of a fall from power do the same. We have thus been seeing this “deny-deflect-blame” game as well as decoupling among nations in the wake of the COVID-19 pand ...
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#1294842021-07-09
COVID-19: Need to relook human relationship with wild, domestic animals, says report
The spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has triggered the need to understand zoonotic diseases more than before. A new study has shed light on the need for coordination efforts among experts to find out how diseases related to wild, feral and domestic animals — that have the poten ...
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#1264282020-12-22
CRISPR helps researchers uncover how corals adjust to warming oceans
The CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system can help scientists understand, and possibly improve, how corals respond to the environmental stresses of climate change. New work details how the revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winning technology can be deployed to guide conservation efforts for fragile reef ec ...
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#1344912022-05-16
CRISPR now possible in cockroaches
Researchers have developed a CRISPR-Cas9 approach to enable gene editing in cockroaches, according to a study published by Cell Press on May 16th in the journal Cell Reports Methods.
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#1297742021-07-29
Caffeine may help bumblebees pollinate more effectively, study shows
The caffeine in the morning coffee that primes many humans for the day appears to inject bumblebees with a similar dose of purpose, helping them pollinate more effectively, a study has found.
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#1324012022-01-11
California's 'climate whiplash' has been worsening for 50 years and will continue
It may seem as if California is always either flooding or on fire. This climatic whiplash is not imagined: New University of Arizona research, published in the International Journal of Climatology, shows that while dry events are not getting drier, extreme wet events have been steadily increasin ...
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#1279902021-04-08
Call for urgent climate change action to secure global food supply
New Curtin University-led research has found climate change will have a substantial impact on global food production and health if no action is taken by consumers, food industries, government, and international bodies.
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#1274212021-03-01
Calling all citizen scientists: Help classify polar bears
University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher Doug Clark is launching a first-of-its-kind research project that will engage citizen volunteers to help advance knowledge about polar bear behavior by analyzing a decade's worth of images captured by trail cameras at Wapusk National Park in northern ...
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#1333882022-02-21
Camera trap surveys provide new insights into two threatened Annamite endemics in Viet Nam and Laos
Effective conservation strategies are required to address accelerating extinction rates across the globe. In order to be effective, these strategies need to rely on scientific knowledge about ecology, distribution and population status of threatened species.
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#1337562022-03-07
Cameras reveal snowshoe hare density
A new study in the Journal of Mammalogy shows recently developed camera-trapping methods could be a viable alternative to live-trapping for determining the density of snowshoe hares and potentially other small mammals that play a critical role in any forest ecosystem.
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#1277122021-03-16
Can I squeeze through here? How some fungi can grow through tiny gaps
Fungi are a vital part of nature's recycling system of decay and decomposition. Filamentous fungi spread over and penetrate surfaces by extending fine threads known as hyphae.
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#1268772021-02-04
Can a fin become a limb? Single mutations cause zebrafish fins to transform into complex limb-like structures
Fin-to-limb transition is an icon of key evolutionary transformations. Many studies focus on understanding the evolution of the simple fin into a complicated limb skeleton by examining the fossil record. In a paper published February 4 in Cell, researchers at Harvard and Boston Children's Hospit ...
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#1236792020-01-13
Can an underwater soundtrack really bring coral reefs back to life?
The ocean is a vast, quiet place, right? Vast, yes; quiet, not so much.As a researcher who studies coral reefs, I've floated above many and, when I listen closely, my ears are invariably filled with sounds.
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#1257822020-11-19
Can animals use iridescent colors to communicate?
A new paper from the University of Melbourne reveals how animals use beautiful but unreliable iridescent colors as communication signals. Special adaptations enable animals to control how these shifting colors appear so that they can convey reliable information. The new work now published in Tre ...
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#1273232021-02-24
Can polar bears and narwhals cling on as the ice shrinks?
As part of the Journal of Experimental Biology's Special Issue dedicated to climate change, Anthony Pagano (San Diego Zoo Global, USA) and Terrie Williams (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA), discuss the impact of environmental change on two iconic polar species; the polar bear and narwh ...
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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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#1352372022-07-06
Can scientists predict when the next exceptional high tide will occur along the St. Lawrence River?
Residents of eastern Québec probably remember the exceptional weather conditions and the very high tide of Dec. 6, 2010. The combination caused flooding along the shores of the St. Lawrence River and millions of dollars in damage to public and private infrastructure.
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#1261292020-12-09
Can sting rays and electric rays help us map the ocean floor?
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have completed a feasibility study indicating that electric rays and sting rays equipped with pingers will be able to map the seabed through natural exploration
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#1336492022-03-02
Can the world meet global climate targets without coordinated global action?
Like many of its predecessors, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland concluded with bold promises on international climate action aimed at keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius, but few concrete plans to ensure that those promises will be kept.
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#1300702021-08-19
Can virtual reality save the planet?
On Aug. 9, the U.N. released a dire climate report, the first since 2018, that warned of accelerated warming of the planet and splashed code red alert headlines across the world. To bring the Earth back from the brink will demand powerful collective action, the authors of the report wrote.
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#1341432022-04-20
Can wind turbines and migrating birds coexist?
In the race to avoid runaway climate change, two renewable energy technologies are being pushed as the solution to powering human societies: wind and solar. But for many years, wind turbines have been on a collision course with wildlife conservation.
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#1186882018-10-26
Can your actions really save the planet? 'Planetary accounting' has the answer
The climate is changing before our eyes. News articles about imminent species extinctions have become the norm. Images of oceans full of plastic are littering social media. These issues are made even more daunting by the fact that they are literally global in scale.
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#1195202019-01-21
Cane toads: What they do in the shadows
Cane toads are picking up some shady habits, according to a new study co-authored by a Macquarie University researcher. Toads in Western Australia have been spotted awake and active during the day in deeply shaded habitats, despite the species usually being nocturnal in Australia and other parts ...
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#1352532022-07-06
Capturing California's biodiversity for the future of conservation
When UC Santa Cruz postdoctoral scholar Merly Escalona assembled the first-ever reference genome for the Stephen Colbert Trapdoor Spider, she was shocked by the dataset's unexpectedly large size.
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#1241482020-02-13
Car ‘splatometer’ tests reveal huge decline in number of insects
Two scientific studies of the number of insects splattered by cars have revealed a huge decline in abundance at European sites in two decades.
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#1253962020-05-01
Carbon dioxide emissions from dry inland waters globally underestimated
Inland waters such as rivers, lakes and reservoirs play an important role in the global carbon cycle. Calculations that scale up the carbon dioxide emissions from land and water surface areas do not take account of inland waters that dry out intermittently.
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#1307002021-10-12
Carbon dissolved in Arctic rivers affects our world—here's how to study it
In a pair of recently published papers, Michael Rawlins, a professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's geosciences department and associate director of the Climate System Research Center, has made significant gains in filling out our understanding of the Arctic's carbon cycle—or the w ...
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#1286892021-05-17
Carbon emissions to destroy one-third of food production regions
If greenhouse gas emissions continue as they are, scientists warn that the climate shift will destroy one-third of food production regions on Earth.
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#1241732020-02-14
Carbon sequestration in oceans powered by fragmentation of large organic particles
A team of researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Sorbonne Université and CNRS Villefranche-sur-Mer, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and the National Centre for Earth Observations, has found evidence of fragmentation of large organic particles into smaller ones, accounting for roughly hal ...
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#1197552019-02-04
Carbon, climate, and North America's oldest boreal trees
In an age of unprecedented high atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, the question of whether or not plants and trees can utilize excess carbon through photosynthesis is one of paramount importance. Researchers have observed what has been called the CO2 fertilization effect, whereby plants' rates o ...
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#1327892022-01-28
Caribou help rare plants survive climate change
Researchers from UC Davis worked for 15 years to understand how rare plant species manage to survive in the harsh conditions of the rapidly warming Arctic. The study, which was conducted at a site in Greenland, revealed that caribou and other large herbivores help protect rare plants, lichens, a ...
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#1273852021-02-26
Carleton’s Highly Cited Researchers: Lenore Fahrig’s Habitat Fragmentation Research Updates Understanding of Biodiversity Loss
Lenore Fahrig, Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Biology is one of the most cited researchers in the field of ecology. Her 2003 Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity paper is the most cited paper on habitat fragmentation in the world, with over 7500 citations noted on Google ...
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#1272552021-02-22
Carpets of moss help stop erosion
Every year, billions of tons of valuable soil are lost worldwide through erosion, much of it deposited in bodies of water that fill with sand or silt as a result. Soil losses measured in Germany range from 1.4 to 3.2 tons per hectare per year; in extreme weather, the figure can be as high as fif ...
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#1264322020-12-23
Caspian crisis: Sinking sea levels threaten biodiversity, economy and regional stability
Coastal nations are rightly worried about sea level rise, but in the countries around the Caspian Sea, over 100 million people are facing the opposite problem: an enormous drop in sea level. Technically, this sea is a land-locked lake, but it is the largest on the planet (371.000 km2), and quite ...
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#1256682020-11-11
Cassava may benefit from atmospheric change more than other crops
Carbon dioxide fuels photosynthesis, the process by which plants generate their food in the form of carbohydrates. The atmosphere's carbon dioxide levels are rapidly increasing, but there is uncertainty about whether plants can turn these extra resources into higher yields while retaining nutrit ...
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#1253572020-04-30
Catch rate is a poor indicator of lake fishery health
Fishery collapses can be difficult to forecast and prevent due to hyperstability, a phenomenon where catch rates remain high even as fish abundance declines. In a recent Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences study, researchers conducted a whole-lake experiment to reveal the causes o ...
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#1348562022-06-02
Catching microplastics with spider webs
Flies, mosquitoes, dust and even microplastics—spider webs capture whatever travels through the air. Researchers at the university have now for the first time tested if they can get an overview of plastic particles in the air by examining the eight-legged creatures' catch.
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#1238862020-01-22
Caterpillar loss in tropical forest linked to extreme rain, temperature events
Using a 22-year dataset of plant-caterpillar-parasitoid interactions collected within a patch of protected Costa Rican lowland Caribbean forest, scientists report declines in caterpillar and parasitoid diversity and density that are paralleled by losses in an important ecosystem service: biocont ...
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#1204432019-03-21
Caterpillars listen to voicemail by eating soil
Leaf-eating caterpillars greatly enrich their intestinal flora by eating soil. Even effects of plants that previously grew in that soil can be found back in bacteria and fungi in caterpillars. Researchers from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and Leiden University write about thi ...
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#1352132022-07-05
Cause of 'staggering' disease in cats in Europe unraveled
A large team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Germany, Austria and Sweden has found the virus behind the mysterious "staggering" disease killing cats across Europe. The group has written a paper describing their work but it has not yet been peer-reviewed—they have posted i ...
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#1330002022-02-08
Cautiously optimistic: Study looks at riskiest tree disease spreaders, finds none
Scientists seek answers through research, but sometimes, a lack of findings can be good news. A recent University of Florida-led study involving tree diseases uncovered no remarkable threats to common Southeastern United States trees, and the lead researcher says to file it as a cautiously optim ...
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#1243812020-02-26
Caves face new unknown after unprecedented bushfires
Caves are easily forgotten when fire rips through the bush, but despite their robustness the long-term impact of frequent, unprecedented fire seasons presents a new challenge for subsurface geology.
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#1338792022-03-31
Cayman farm turtles reveal hope for biodiversity loss
A collaborative research project into the green turtles that were released into the wild by what was at the time the Cayman Turtle Farm has shown that the accelerating biodiversity loss from global warming and other human activity could in some circumstances be assisted by the reintroduction of ...
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#1266372021-01-15
Celebrity power undermining global conservation efforts, scientists warn
Leading scientists have warned that global conservation is being undermined by celebrity power after they suffered death threats and abuse in a hostile dispute over trophy hunting.
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#1263582020-12-18
Cell atlas of tropical disease parasite may hold key to new treatments
The first cell atlas of an important life stage of Schistosoma mansoni, a parasitic worm that poses a risk to hundreds of millions of people each year, has been developed by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators.
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#1300872021-08-20
Cells Discovered in Corals, Sea Anemones, Engulfing Bacteria; A Discovery Potential for Better Marine Health Assessment
New research recently said corals and sea anemones have at least two immune cell populations, and these specialized cells comprise roughly three percent of the total population of cells.
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#1304542021-09-15
Centre of Biodiversity Research opens in Leipzig
Today, the Minister-Presidents of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia inaugurated the Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research - iDiv) in Leipzig. The centre began operating in 2020 and since then 300 researchers have started ...
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#1339372022-04-06
Century-old malaria parasite puzzle solved as ape origin traced
Scientists have solved a 100-year-old mystery about the evolutionary links between malaria parasites that infect humans and chimpanzees.
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#1280992021-04-20
Certain gut microbes make mosquitoes more prone to carry malaria parasite
Dietary sugars and gut microbes play a key role in promoting malaria parasite infection in mosquitoes. Researchers in China have uncovered evidence that mosquitoes fed a sugar diet show an increased abundance of the bacterial species Asaia bogorensis, which enhances parasite infection by raising ...
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#1293362021-06-15
Chainsaw-carved trees make perfect homes for marsupial phascogale
As a result of logging and severe bushfires, Australian wildlife is facing a severe shortage of tree hollows—holes in the trunks and branches of large old trees. More than 300 species of birds and mammals, including possums, bats, cockatoos, owls and kookaburras, rely on tree hollows for shelter ...