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#1246042020-03-10
Wearing clothes could release more microfibres to the environment than washing them
Wearing clothes can release even greater quantities of microfibres to the environment than washing them, new research shows.In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists from the Institute for Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials of the National Research Council of Italy (IPCB-CNR) and the Universit ...
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#1246062020-03-10
Climate Change to Drive Emperor Penguins to Extinction By 2100
Research has revealed that the effects of climate change could drive the emperor penguin to extinction by 2100 if we fail to reverse the detrimental transitions already set into motion.
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#1246092020-03-10
Magnetic teeth revealed using quantum imaging
Scientists have used new quantum magnetic imaging techniques to study the hardest known biomineral – the magnetite found in mollusc teeth – which may inspire new industrial materials.Biology provides us with a constant source of inspiration for designing and exploring new functional materials.
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#1246222020-03-11
Close to tipping point, Amazon could collapse in 50 years
The Amazon rainforest is nearing a threshold which, once crossed, would see one of the world's largest and richest ecosystems morph into arid savannah within half-a-century, scientists said Tuesday.
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#1246292020-03-11
A single biological factor predicts distinct cortical organizations across mammalian species
Researchers have explained how visual cortexes develop uniquely across the brains of different mammalian species. A KAIST research team led by Professor Se-Bum Paik from the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering has identified a single biological factor, the retino-cortical mapping ratio, that ...
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#1246302020-03-11
How the humble dung beetle engineers better ecosystems in Australia
Dung beetles play an important role helping clear up all the dung left by other animals in an environment.In Australia there are approximately 475 native species of dung beetle.
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#1246322020-03-11
Baboon mothers carry their dead infant up to 10 days
Baboon mothers living in the wild carry dead infants for up to ten days, according to a new study led by UCL and Université de Montpellier.
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#1246342020-03-11
Even concerned consumers don't know which food choices have the lowest climate impact
The energy used to grow, process, package and transport food accounts for about a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. But not all food is equally carbon-intensive. Researchers can measure the impact of different food choices at each stage of their journey—from farm to fork—to work out th ...
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#1246352020-03-11
Urban trees could cut extreme heat by up to 6 degrees
Australia just experienced the second-warmest summer on record, with 2019 being the hottest year. Summer temperatures soared across the country, causing great economic and human loss. The good news is we can do something about this in our own backyards. We have found trees and vegetation can low ...
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#1246492020-03-12
Polar bear den detection methods work less than half the time, finds bear expert
When fuel companies explore northern Alaska for oil, federal regulations require them to steer clear of polar bears. To locate the endangered species during winter months, fixed-wing planes mounted with forward-looking infrared technology, or FLIR, are sent out to scan for dens hidden under the ice.
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#1246502020-03-13
Worm nerve responses for good and bad
Nagoya University researchers and colleagues have revealed the nerve circuitry regulating the response of a tiny soil worm to changing temperatures. The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, help clarify one way the nervous system translates external ...
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#1246512020-03-13
How British wildlife greeted the warmest winter on record
Written on the final, frozen day of 1900, Thomas Hardy's poem The Darkling Thrush describes a harsh, ice-blasted landscape devoid of life. Hardy's depiction of a time "when frost was spectre-gray" evokes a winter that is beginning to exist only in memory.
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#1246522020-03-13
Heat stress may affect more than 1.2 billion people annually by 2100
Heat stress from extreme heat and humidity will annually affect areas now home to 1.2 billion people by 2100, assuming current greenhouse gas emissions, according to a Rutgers study.
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#1246532020-03-13
Under-sea freshwater reserves found near Canterbury
Scientists have discovered an extensive body of freshwater off the Canterbury coast between Timaru and Ashburton.NIWA marine geologist Dr. Joshu Mountjoy says the discovery is one of the few times a significant offshore aquifer has been located around the world and may lead to a new freshwater r ...
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#1246542020-03-13
Scientists long puzzled over plastic 'missing' from our oceans—but now it's been found
You've probably heard that our oceans have become a plastic soup. But in fact, of all the plastic that enters Earth's oceans each year, just 1% has been observed floating on the surface. So where is the rest of it?
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#1246552020-03-13
Continuous soil fertility monitor could benefit agriculture
A project which aims to use drones to ensure that mobile communications remain accessible in disaster zones has had its first successful demonstration.
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#1246562020-03-13
Extreme weather needs extreme action
Last year, droughts devastated staple food crops across the developing world, cutting production by about half in some countries. A stream of reports from Central America, Eastern and Southern Africa as well as the Asia-Pacific region painted a grim picture of suffering and upheaval.
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#1246962020-03-16
Scientists quantify how wave power drives coastal erosion
Over millions of years, Hawaiian volcanoes have formed a chain of volcanic islands stretching across the Northern Pacific, where ocean waves from every direction, stirred up by distant storms or carried in on tradewinds, have battered and shaped the islands' coastlines to varying degrees.
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#1246972020-03-16
Study connects specific genes with defective social behavior
Animals rely on group behavior to survive, whether it's fish swimming together to avoid predators or humans sharing knowledge with each other. But despite the importance of such social interactions, scientists do not have a good understanding of the biological processes that guide collective beh ...
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#1246982020-03-16
Technology to screen for higher-yielding crop traits is now more accessible to scientists
Like many industries, big data is driving innovations in agriculture. Scientists seek to analyze thousands of plants to pinpoint genetic tweaks that can boost crop production—historically, a Herculean task.
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#1246992020-03-16
Human activity affects interactions between plants and seed-dispersing birds
Research conducted in recent decades has shown how the destruction of forests brings about a decline in species diversity. A research group in Brazil led by scientists at São Paulo State University (UNESP) has now reported the findings of an investigation into how landscape changes caused by def ...
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#1247002020-03-16
Coronavirus: Nitrogen dioxide emissions drop over Italy
New data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite reveal the decline of air pollution, specifically nitrogen dioxide emissions, over Italy. This reduction is particularly visible in northern Italy which coincides with its nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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#1247012020-03-16
Study suggests LEGO bricks could survive in ocean for up to 1,300 years
A LEGO brick could survive in the ocean for as many as 1,300 years, according to new research. A study led by the University of Plymouth examined the extent to which items of the ever-popular children's toy were worn down in the marine environment.
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#1247022020-03-16
Food systems are fodder for curbing cities' environmental impacts
Focusing on urbanization as a key driver of environmental change in the 21st century, researchers at Princeton University have created a framework to understand and compare cities' food systems and their effects on climate change, water use and land use.
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#1247032020-03-16
Researchers discover new fishes at remote New Zealand island
In 2015, scientists from Massey University, Auckland Museum, and the University of Waikato traveled with film crew from NHNZ to Rangitāhua– The Kermadec Islands to study the archipelago's biodiversity.
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#1247232020-03-17
Improving aquaculture and identifying impact of climate change by researching crab molting
The exoskeleton of a crab provides many benefits for the animal, including structural support and protection from predators and injury. The downside of having an exoskeleton is that it restricts the crab's growth, requiring the crab to molt, explains Don Mykles, a professor in the Department of ...
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#1247242020-03-17
Amazon road-building projects would result in deforestation of 2.4 million hectares
A team of researchers from the U.S., Bolivia, Brazil, Sweden, Peru and Columbia has found that most of the road projects currently planned for the Amazon rainforest have not been assessed for environmental or economic impacts. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sc ...
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#1247252020-03-17
Researchers compare cadmium phytoextraction ability of several plants
Remediation of soil contaminated by heavy metals has become a hot topic in the world, and phytoremediation technology is the most widely used. Compared with physical and chemical remediation, phytoremediation technology has the advantages of high cost-effectiveness, in-situ application, less inv ...
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#1247262020-03-17
How horses can save the permafrost
Permafrost soils in the Arctic are thawing. As they do, large, additional quantities of greenhouse gases could be released, accelerating climate change. In Russia, experiments are now being conducted in which herds of horses, bison and reindeer are being used to combat this effect.
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#1247272020-03-17
Natural solutions to the climate crisis? One-quarter is all down to Earth
Joint research conducted by the Nature Conservancy and the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, calculated the carbon-storing power of global soils and showcased approaches like agroforestry designed to capitalise on untapped potential.
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#1247282020-03-17
Ruminant Plague” Threatens Populations of Wildlife and Livestock
A disease already known for causing massive die-offs of wildlife in Asia is spreading. Publishing their findings in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science, a team of scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and more than 20 other organizations say that the spillover of the Pe ...
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#1247472020-03-18
Bargain-hunting for biodiversity
The best bargains for conserving some of the world's most vulnerable salamanders and other vertebrate species can be found in Central Texas and the Appalachians, according to new conservation tools.
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#1247512020-03-18
Comparisons of organic and conventional agriculture need improvement, say researchers
The environmental effects of agriculture and food are hotly debated. But the most widely used method of analysis often tends to overlook vital factors such as biodiversity, soil quality, pesticide impacts and societal shifts, and these oversights can lead to incorrect conclusions on the merits o ...
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#1247522020-03-18
Study finds bird evolution shaped by Tibetan Plateau
Elizabeth Scordato, an assistant professor of biological sciences, is the lead author of a study that found the evolution of barn swallows in Asia is shaped by the Tibetan Plateau.
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#1247532020-03-18
Urban land could grow fruit and veg for 15 per cent of the population, research shows
Growing fruit and vegetables in just 10 per cent of a city's gardens and other urban green spaces could provide 15 per cent of the local population with their 'five a day', according to new research.
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#1247542020-03-18
New research unpicks root causes of separation anxiety in dogs
Separation anxiety in dogs should be seen as a symptom of underlying frustrations rather than a diagnosis, and understanding these root causes could be key to effective treatment, new research by animal behaviour specialists suggests.
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#1247552020-03-18
Where'd you get those genes? Individual growth can vary wildly when populations interbreed
Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have discovered why some hybrids between populations of the same species don't develop as well as others. The answers lie in their genes.
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#1247562020-03-18
Birds are the 'canaries in the climate-change coal mine'
A bird study led by the Australian National University (ANU) provides new understanding of the ways birds and mammals respond to a rapidly warming world.
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#1247572020-03-18
Crop diversity can buffer the effects of climate change
How we farm can guard against climate change and protect critical wildlife—but only if we leave single-crop farms in the dust, according to a new Stanford study.
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#1247782020-03-20
The plan to turn half the world into a reserve for nature
Scientists and conservationists are proposing that up to half of Earth’s land and oceans be protected for nature. Is it a necessary step or a pipe dream?
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#1247792020-03-20
The threats facing our planet are interconnected
In addition to costing human lives, this year’s unprecedentedly severe wildfire season in Australia destroyed an estimated 2,500 homes, killed hundreds of millions of animals, battered the economy,
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#1247802020-03-20
Tracking data used to identify biodiversity hot spots in Southern Ocean ecosystems
Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica face growing threats from climate change and fishing pressure, but identifying areas in need of protection is challenging.
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#1247822020-03-20
Fossil snake with infrared vision: Early evolution of snakes in the Messel Pit examined
Together with his Argentinian colleague Agustín Scanferla, Senckenberg scientist Krister Smith studied the early evolution of snakes in the Messel Pit. In the study, recently published in the scientific journal Diversity, the team was able to show that around 48 million years ago, the ecosystem ...
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#1248092020-03-20
Comment on “Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity”
Empirical data on imperiled populations and species are difficult to gather but are essential for effective conservation planning (1). It is estimated that more than 40% of amphibian species face extinction (2). Many threats, including infectious diseases, confront amphibians (3, 4). Chytridiomy ...
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#1248102020-03-20
NBRI to start trials of pest-resistant variety to fight against whiteflies
Whiteflies are one of the top ten devastating pests in the world that damage more than 2000 plant species and also function as vectors for some 200-plant viruses. Cotton is one of the worst-hit crops by these, in 2015 two-third of the cotton crop was destroyed by the pest in Punjab.
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#1248112020-03-20
Reanalysis of global amphibian crisis study finds important flaws
Though biodiversity is in crisis globally, amphibians in particular face a variety of threats. One such threat comes from pathogens like the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). Bd causes chytridiomycosis, a disease that research indicates contributes to the decline of s ...
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#1248122020-03-20
How fungi's knack for networking boosts ecological recovery after bushfires
The unprecedented bushfires that struck the east coast of Australia this summer killed an estimated one billion animals across millions of hectares.
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#1248132020-03-20
How oceans and atmospheres move heat around on Earth and other planetary bodies
Imagine a massive mug of cold, dense cream with hot coffee poured on top. Now place it on a rotating table. Over time, the fluids will slowly mix into each other, and heat from the coffee will eventually reach the bottom of the mug.
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#1248142020-03-20
Hidden source of carbon found at the Arctic coast
A previously unknown significant source of carbon just discovered in the Arctic has scientists marveling at a once overlooked contributor to local coastal ecosystems—and concerned about what it may mean in an era of climate change.
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#1248152020-03-20
The mighty Nile, threatened by waste, warming, mega-dam
Early one morning in Cairo, volunteers paddle their kayaks across the Nile, fishing out garbage from the mighty waterway that gave birth to Egyptian civilisation but now faces multiple threats.