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#1250822020-04-13
COVID-19 delays research into connection between climate change, redfish boom
Research on the suspected connection between the unprecedented rise of the redfish population in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and climate change is being delayed by COVID-19. Experiments were supposed to begin last month at the Maurice-Lamontagne Institute in Mont-Joli, Que.
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#1250842020-04-13
Wildlife conservation in a time of pandemic
Wildlife conservation is a type of work without end. It's ongoing. It revolves around time—while racing against it. Pausing amid a global pandemic isn't an option, because that could mean the difference between saving endangered species or not.
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#1250862020-04-13
For a better future, use this time to establish green habits at home
Social distancing during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is challenging but also presents families with a unique opportunity to develop new habits and start new projects at home.
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#1250872020-04-13
COVID-19 is another wake up call for food security
With lockdowns ordered to contain the COVID-19 pandemic—that has reached 183 countries, infected over 1.7 million people and caused over 100,000 deaths—there are fears of food shortages caused by panic buying and supply chain disruptions.
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#1250882020-04-13
Coronavirus Halts Arctic Climate Change Research
Every year 150 climate scientists fly far into the wilderness and bore deep into Greenland's largest glacier. Their work is complicated and important. The EastGRIP project is trying to understand how ice streams underneath the glacier are pushing vast amounts of ice into the ocean, and how this ...
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#1250892020-04-13
How COVID-19 could ruin weather forecasts and climate records
As climate- and ecological-monitoring projects go dark, data that stretch back for decades will soon contain coronavirus-associated gaps.
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#1250942020-04-16
Bats ‘pose no greater viral threat’ to humans than other species
The idea that certain creatures such as bats pose a higher risk of spreading viruses to humans may not be accurate, new research suggests.
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#1250952020-04-16
More than half of all Earth’s ocean life died off 444 million years ago because it ran out of oxygen
More than half of all of Earth’s ocean life died off 444 million years ago because of falling oxygen levels, a study has found. Experts believe that the ‘Late Ordovician’ mass extinction 450 million years ago was due to widespread ‘anoxia’, or oxygen depletion, over a three million year period.
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#1250962020-04-16
Study unlocks secret of corals’ tolerance to climate change: their diet
Researchers at School of Biological Sciences and Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong have developed a new method for determining what corals eat, and demonstrated that reliance on certain nutritional sources underpins their bleaching susceptibility in warming oceans.
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#1250972020-04-16
NatureServe releases ‘Map of Biodiversity Importance’ tool
The US-based NatureServe has introduced ‘Map of Biodiversity Importance’, a tool that reveals the first high-resolution view of where the country’s most imperiled species are found.
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#1250992020-04-16
Anti-bat views must not take wing: More informed people must bat for these much-maligned mammals
Bats have got a pretty raw deal in popular culture ever since Bram Stoker’s 1897 book 'Dracula' cemented the connection between largely unlovely ‘hand-winged’ chiroptera and the blood-sucking vampires of folklore. Not even the charisma of Batman, who made his superhero debut 42 years later, has ...
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#1251672020-04-17
A journey to No Man's Land
Biologist Kim Ji-hee's annual research trip to Antarctica is always an exhilarating rollercoaster ride. Kim, a principal scientist at the Korea Polar Research Institute in Songdo International Business District created along the waterfront region of Incheon Metropolitan City, first went to King ...
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#1251682020-04-17
Simulating early ocean vents shows life's building blocks form under pressure
Where did life first form on Earth? Some scientists think it could have been around hydrothermal vents that may have existed at the bottom of the ocean 4.5 billion years ago. In a new paper in the journal Astrobiology, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory describe how they mimicked pos ...
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#1251692020-04-17
Male ring-tail lemurs exude fruity-smelling perfume from their wrists to attract mates
Humans aren't the only primates who like smelling nice for their dates. In the journal Current Biology on April 16, scientists report that male ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) become more attractive to females by secreting a fruity and floral aroma from their wrists.
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#1251702020-04-17
What is an individual? Information theory may provide the answer
It's almost impossible to imagine biology without individuals—individual organisms, individual cells, and individual genes, for example. But what about a worker ant that never reproduces, and could never survive apart from the colony?
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#1251712020-04-17
Researchers challenge accuracy of methods that analyze trees of life
When species under a taxonomic umbrella have faced forks in the road, leading to extinction or adaptation, the path taken has been difficult to follow. In a newly published paper, two scientists argue that long-used approaches for reconstructing these paths are deeply flawed.
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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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#1251732020-04-17
New science: saving life on land, record-breaking rays, freshwater action plan
Protecting nature starts with science. Here’s a roundup of recent scientific research published by Conservation International experts.
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#1251782020-04-17
Scientists try 'cloud brightening' to protect Great Barrier Reef
An ambitious "cloud brightening" experiment has been carried out over Australia's Great Barrier Reef in an early-stage trial that scientists hope could become a futuristic way to protect coral from global warming.
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#1252182020-04-21
Study may explain the source of nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere
Nitrogen makes up approximately 78% of the air we breathe. But scientists have never fully understood how it came to be present in the atmospheres around Earth and other planets.
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#1252192020-04-21
Geolocators give new insights into nesting behavior of godwits
To find out more about birds such as the black-tailed godwit, ecologists have been conducting long-term population studies using standardized information on reproductive behaviour—such as dates of egg-laying or hatching and levels of chick survival.
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#1252202020-04-21
Lizards develop new 'love language': Animal chemical signals shift after only four generations
Relocated in small groups to experimental islands, lizards rapidly and repeatedly developed new chemical signals for communicating with each other. Free from the risk of predators and intent to attract potential mates, male lizards produce a novel chemical calling card, according to new research ...
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#1252232020-04-22
North Pole soon to be ice free in summer
The Arctic Ocean in summer will very likely be ice free before 2050, at least temporarily. The efficacy of climate-protection measures will determine how often and for how long. These are the results of a new research study involving 21 research institutes from around the world, coordinated by D ...
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#1252242020-04-22
Leading role for UOW in Antarctic science collaboration
University of Wollongong (UOW) researchers will play a leading role in the new $56 million Australian Research Council (ARC) Special Research Initiative in Excellence in Antarctic Science, announced by Federal Minister of Education Mr Dan Tehan today (Tuesday 21 April).
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#1252252020-04-22
Viruses: an intimate 'enemy', yet essential for life on Earth
As heads of state from around the world wage war against the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, defending viruses seems rather like swimming against the tide. However, understanding viruses may prove essential to deciphering this COVID-19 pandemic, stopping it, and possibly avoiding future epidemics.
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#1252262020-04-22
Arctic research expedition likely faces extreme conditions in fast-changing Arctic
In October 2019, scientists trapped a ship filled with equipment in Arctic sea ice with the intention of drifting around the Arctic Ocean for a full year, gathering data on the polar regions and sea ice floes. However, a new study indicates there is a chance the expedition may melt out months be ...
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#1252272020-04-22
Eurasian ice sheet collapse raised seas eight metres: study
The melting of the Eurasian ice sheet around 14,000 years ago lifted global sea levels by about eight metres, according to new research published Monday that highlights the risks of today's rapid ice cap melt.
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#1252282020-04-22
Scientists solve air quality puzzle: Why does ozone linger long after its ban?
When high in the atmosphere, ozone protects Earth from harmful solar radiation—but ozone at ground level is a significant pollutant. Exposure to high concentrations of ground-level ozone aggravates respiratory illnesses, thus exacerbating the negative health effects of heat and contributing to t ...
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#1252292020-04-22
Why relying on new technology won't save the planet
Overreliance on promises of new technology to solve climate change is enabling delay, say researchers from Lancaster University.
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#1252502020-04-22
New data analysis identifies the planet's best 'high-value biodiversity' habitat areas
A team of scientists combined high-resolution data of highly threatened habitats with intact natural systems, revealing a first-of-its-kind global map of the world's remaining high-value biodiversity habitat areas. Shockingly, only 18.6 percent of these areas are currently protected.
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#1252512020-04-22
Researchers Want to Know What Your Sourdough Starter Smells Like
On the morning of the Turkish holiday, Hıdırellez, female bakers in the village of Ulubey wake up early to get an important ingredient for their sourdough starter, the same way their mothers and grandmothers did before them. Karl De Smedt, the world's only sourdough librarian, recorded the tale ...
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#1252722020-04-28
Halt destruction of nature or suffer even worse pandemics, say world’s top scientists
The coronavirus pandemic is likely to be followed by even more deadly and destructive disease outbreaks unless their root cause – the rampant destruction of the natural world – is rapidly halted, the world’s leading biodiversity experts have warned.
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#1252732020-04-28
How to include human connection with nature in biodiversity goals
We need new ways of understanding how people depend on nature in our efforts to protect biodiversity. A new thesis from Lund University in Sweden suggests that we rarely take into account people’s place-based, varied and often emotional relationships with nature.
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#1252742020-04-28
100 Questions to Prevent Biodiversity Loss in Southeast Asia
What species and ecosystems are most likely to be adversely affected by climate change, and why? What are the impacts of international trade on fisheries and marine biodiversity loss? How should urban development be handled so that its impacts on biodiversity are minimized?
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#1252752020-04-28
‘Insect apocalypse’ not so clear-cut
Love them or hate them, recent reports of an “insect apocalypse” sounded alarm bells around the world as conservationists warned of dire repercussions for people and ecosystems. But a wide-scoping meta-analysis of 166 long-term surveys across 1676 global sites shows the decline has considerable ...
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#1252762020-04-28
Ocean, ice and climate: online talk to explore latest science
Tasmanians interested in the latest climate change research can this week join a free online webinar by two leading local scientists, the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies’ Professor Nathan Bindoff and CSIRO’s Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas.
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#1252782020-04-28
Dramatic loss of food plants for insects
Just a few weeks ago, there were news headlines about plummeting insect numbers. Academic discourse focused on three main causes: the destruction of habitats, pesticides in agriculture and the decline of food plants for insects.
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#1252792020-04-28
Coronavirus calm reveals flourishing Venice Lagoon ecosystem
"The flora and fauna of the lagoon have not changed during lockdown. What has changed is our chance to see them," says zoologist Andrea Mangoni, plunging his camera into Venice's normally murky waters to observe life.
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#1252802020-04-28
“Global Diversity Curves Are Misleading” – Ocean Biodiversity Has Not Increased Substantially for Hundreds of Millions of Years
A new way of looking at marine evolution over the past 540 million years has shown that levels of biodiversity in our oceans have remained fairly constant, rather than increasing continuously over the last 200 million years, as scientists previously thought.
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#1252812020-04-28
Tube worm slime displays long-lasting, self-powered glow
When threatened, the marine parchment tube worm secretes a sticky slime that emits a unique long-lasting blue light. New research into how the worm creates and sustains this light suggests that the process is self-powered.
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#1252822020-04-28
Scientists use bacteria to help plants grow in salty soil
A new study has shown that salt-tolerant bacteria can be used to enhance salt tolerance in various types of plants. The new approach could increase crop yield in areas dealing with increasing soil salinity.
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#1252842020-04-28
Honey bees could help monitor fertility loss in insects due to climate change
New research from the University of British Columbia and North Carolina State University could help scientists track how climate change is impacting the birds and the bees... of honey bees.
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#1252852020-04-28
They remember: Communities of microbes found to have working memory
Biologists studying collectives of bacteria, or "biofilms," have discovered that these so-called simple organisms feature a robust capacity for memory.
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#1253062020-04-28
Scientists at work: Uncovering the mystery of when and where sharks give birth
If you have a toddler, or if you encountered one in the last year, you've almost certainly experienced the "Baby Shark" song. Somehow, every kid seems to know this song, but scientists actually know very little about where and when sharks give birth. The origins of these famous baby sharks are s ...
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#1253072020-04-28
Arctic wildlife uses extreme method to save energy
Researchers from Lund University and the University of Tromsø have examined the immune system strength of the Svalbard rock ptarmigan in the Arctic. This bird lives the farthest up in the Arctic of any land bird, and the researchers have investigated how the immune response varies between winter ...
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#1253082020-04-28
Shrinking instead of growing: How shrews survive the winter
Common shrews have one of the highest metabolic rates among mammals. They must therefore consume a considerable amount of energy for their relatively low body weight. Because their fat reserves are quickly used up, they often starve to death after only a few hours without food. Nevertheless, for ...
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#1253092020-04-28
Lakes triple amount of carbon they bury in response to human disruption of global nutrient cycles
A new study led by Loughborough University has revealed that lake burial of organic carbon has increased three-fold over the last 100 years in response to human disruption of global nutrient cycles.
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#1253182020-04-29
Study suggests elephants may get drunk naturally after all
A team of researchers at the University of Calgary has found that variations in ethanol metabolism abilities in different species may account for the "myth" of natural animal intoxication. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes comparing mutations in the ADH ...
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#1253192020-04-29
Evolution of bacterial movement revealed
An international team with researchers from Leiden revealed how a bacterium repurposed an internal system to control its movements. Movement control is very important in host invasion, which can lead to disease. Publication on 27 April in Nature Communications.
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#1253292020-04-29
A study places the origin of a group of trees growing in Africa 50 million years ago
In the Eocene, some of the world's most important mountain ranges emerged and large climate changes took place that affected the future of the planet. In this era, about 50 million years ago, large groups of mammals and other animals also arrived, as did the Daniellia clade, an array of legume p ...