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#1253302020-04-29
White-faced capuchin monkeys come down from the trees on Panama's Coiba Island
Crossing a 23-kilometer stretch of ocean from mainland Panama to Coiba, the largest offshore island in the Eastern Pacific, a group of intrepid biologists hoped to find species never reported there before. But in addition to discovering new species, the 2015 Coiba BioBlitz crew was surprised to ...
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#1253312020-04-29
Researchers analyze how the fungus that causes verticillium wilt attacks olive trees
Researchers from the Universities of Valencia and Cordoba, as well as from the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), have studied the fungus that causes verticilosis, a disease that kills millions of olive trees.
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#1253322020-04-29
Going beyond political borders to protect threatened animals
During a global extinction crisis and rapidly changing world, many nations are now looking to harden their borders to restrict the movement of people.
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#1253332020-04-29
Nairobi flies: unpacking the mystery of a small beetle with huge burn power
A huge swarm of small black and red insects were recently seen in a town called Kabarnet, in western Kenya. Debate has been raging in the local media about what to call the insects: Nairobi fly, Kenya fly, narrow bee fly? There is no official name but "Nairobi fly" seems to be the most commonly ...
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#1253542020-04-30
Citizen science project aims to reveal secret life of bees
In these unprecedented times, we are all spending much more time at home and in our gardens. And, now that spring has well and truly arrived, it’s the perfect time to get reacquainted with one of our country’s busiest workers – the bee.
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#1253552020-04-30
Study helps arboreta, botanical gardens meet genetic diversity conservation goals
In a ground breaking study, an international team of 21 scientists led by Sean Hoban, Ph.D., Conservation Biologist at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, evaluated five genera spanning the plant tree of life (Hibiscus, Magnolia, Pseudophoenix, Quercus and Zamia) to understand how much gene ...
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#1253562020-04-30
Algae tasked with producing COVID-19 test kits
Researchers at Western and Suncor are teaming up to use algae as a way to produce serological test kits for COVID-19 – a new process that overcomes shortfalls of existing processes while saving money.
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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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#1253582020-04-30
Some of the latest climate models provide unrealistically high projections of future warming
A new study from University of Michigan climate researchers concludes that some of the latest-generation climate models may be overly sensitive to carbon dioxide increases and therefore project future warming that is unrealistically high.
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#1253592020-04-30
Irrigation expansion could feed 800 million more people
Water scarcity, a socio-environmental threat to anthropogenic activities and ecosystems alike, affects large regions of the globe. However, it is often the most vulnerable and disadvantaged populations that suffer the severest consequences, highlighting the role of economic and institutional fac ...
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#1253602020-04-30
L.A. County’s biodiversity is on the map, thanks to UCLA researchers
Located in a global hotspot for biodiversity, Los Angeles County is home to more than 4,000 distinct species of plants and animals, including 52 endangered species — more than any county outside of Hawaii. And with 1 million animal and plant species facing extinction due to human activity, accor ...
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#1253882020-05-01
LED lights halve unwanted fish in nets, research finds
A simple technique to “illuminate the exits” in trawl fishing nets can almost halve the numbers of unwanted catch, new research has found, potentially protecting both the environment and fishermen’s livelihoods.
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#1253892020-05-01
Alarm over deaths of bees from rapidly spreading viral disease
A viral disease that causes honey bees to suffer severe trembling, flightlessness and death within a week is spreading exponentially in Britain. Chronic bee paralysis virus (CBPV) was only recorded in Lincolnshire in 2007. A decade later, it was found in 39 of 47 English counties and six of eigh ...
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#1253902020-05-01
A nose for trouble: Fruit flies can detect predators by smell
A study published this week in Scientific Reports by researchers from Macquarie University Applied BioSciences reveals that Queensland Fruit Fly (Q-fly) can detect the presence of potential predators by smell. Incredibly, the study also found that Q-fly modify their behavior based upon this dete ...
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#1253912020-05-01
Coffee plants have a small but consistent core microbiome of fungi and bacteria
For most people, coffee is a necessary start to the day. For three scientists based in Toronto, coffee is a good research subject in a world with a changing climate.
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#1253922020-05-01
New self-forming membrane to protect our environment
A new class of self-forming membrane to separate carbon dioxide from a mixture of gases has been developed by Newcastle University researchers.
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#1253932020-05-01
Scientists find evidence of how platinum metals form under 60 million-year-old Scottish volcano
Research carried out by scientists at Keele University, the University of Manchester and University College Dublin has shed new light on how precious metals are concentrated in igneous rocks.
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#1253942020-05-01
Plastic, paper or cotton: which shopping bag is best?
On March 1, New York State instituted its plastic bag ban, joining seven other states in an attempt to lessen litter, garbage in landfills, ocean pollution, and harm to marine life. March 1 was also the day that New York acknowledged its first coronavirus case. And despite the fact that Californ ...
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#1253952020-05-01
Climate-smart agricultural practices increase maize yield in Malawi
Climate change creates extreme weather patterns that are especially challenging for people in developing countries and can severely impact agricultural yield and food security. International aid organizations have invested billions of dollars in promoting climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practice ...
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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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#1253982020-05-01
Ukraine scientists navigate lockdown to reach Antarctica
Yuriy Otruba was preparing for his sixth scientific expedition to Antarctica when the coronavirus pandemic hit, shutting borders, grounding flights and locking down countries he needed to travel through.
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#1255052020-11-02
Artificial night lighting has widespread impacts on nature
Artificial night-time lighting has a diverse range of effects across the natural world and should be limited where possible, researchers say.
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#1255062020-11-02
Scientists pinpoint possible reasons for successful cross-species viral spread
Infectious disease emergence is often the result of a pathogen entering a new host species, as highlighted by COVID-19. However, most cross-species transmissions fail to establish in the newly- infected species.
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#1255192020-11-03
Two centuries of Monarch butterflies show evolution of wing length
North America's beloved Monarch butterflies are known for their annual, multi-generation migrations in which individual insects can fly for thousands of miles. But Monarchs have also settled in some locations where their favorite food plants grow year round, so they no longer need to migrate.
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#1255202020-11-03
Research reveals decreasing genetic connectivity in endangered tree Magnolia patungensis in fragmented forests
Endemic to the mountainous region of East Sichuan, West Hubei and its neighboring areas, Magnolia patungensis Hu is endangered due to overharvesting, habitat degradation and fragmentation. The current endangered status of M. patungensis makes its genetic variation and population connectivity a c ...
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#1255212020-11-03
Biologists shed light on mystery of how microbes evolve and affect hosts
The era of COVID-19 and the need to constantly wash one's hands and sanitize things have brought microbes to new levels of scrutiny, particularly for their impact on an individual's health.
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#1255222020-11-03
Where the wind blows: New study shows powerful forces sculpting Argentina's landscape
A new study from U of T Mississauga earth science researchers reveals surprising new information about how powerful winds shape the landscape in a remote part of the Andes mountain range.
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#1255342020-11-04
Rewilding key to averting mass extinctions and reducing carbon emissions
An international team led by Brazilian researchers recently published a study in the journal Nature showing that restoring habitats that are currently degraded by agricultural activity is key to mitigating climate change impacts and avoiding animal species extinction.
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#1255352020-11-04
Scientists improve a land surface model to better simulate the carbon-nitrogen flux
Along with Europe and North America, East Asia has in the past few decades become one of the three largest nitrogen deposition centers in the world. This can lead to considerable impacts on the structure and function of ecosystems; for instance, excessive nitrogen is thought to be one of the dri ...
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#1255362020-11-04
Lion genetics study uncovers major consequences of habitat fragmentation
Over the course of only a century, humanity has made an observable impact on the genetic diversity of the lion population. That's the conclusion of a recently published study by Drs. Caitlin Curry and James Derr from the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.
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#1255372020-11-04
Death from below: the first video of a parasitic wasp attacking caterpillar underwater
A very few species of parasitoid wasps can be considered aquatic. Less than 0.1% of the species we know today have been found to enter the water, while searching for potential hosts or living as endoparasitoids inside of aquatic hosts during their larval stage.
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#1255382020-11-04
Purple crowned fairy wren holds the key to immune function
A study led by Monash scientists has found the iconic Purple-crowned fairy-wren may hold the key to better understanding immune function.
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#1255392020-11-04
'Helper' ambrosia beetles share reproduction with their mother
Fungus farming is a fascinating symbiosis that has evolved multiple times in social insects: once in ants, once in termites, and several times in weevils (beetles) from the subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae.
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#1255402020-11-04
Intensive lab experiences and online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
For students studying ecology and evolution, it's important to experience the processes and concepts they are learning about nature in nature. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, field-based courses rapidly transitioned to online only delivery.
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#1255422020-11-04
The Somali man who has a scorpion named after him
The 66-year-old scientist from Somaliland has been honoured by the three researchers who discovered the new scorpion species in the region in recognition of his decades of work in conservation and environmental protection.
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#1255532020-11-04
Scientists to study biodiversity and pharmaceutical potential on seafloor off California
Three scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will lead a cruise off Southern California beginning Oct. 27 to explore the biodiversity of deep sea habitats. Their goal is to document the life forms inhabiting these environments and assess their potential to yield chemic ...
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#1255592020-11-05
Gentoo penguins are four species, not one
Scientists are calling for a shake-up of the penguin kingdom, saying the gentoo penguin is four species, not one. According to new evidence, the birds are slightly different in shape and size, and can be told apart by their DNA.
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#1255622020-11-05
Natural enemy of Asian fruit fly, previously thought to be one species, is in fact two
CABI scientists have led new research revealing strong evidence that a natural enemy of the prolific Asian fruit fly Drosphila suzukii—previously believed to be one species—is, in fact, two species; furthermore, only one of the parasitoids proves suitable as a biological control agent against Dr ...
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#1255632020-11-05
New environmental intelligence tool will help protect Cornwall's wildlife and landscape
A new environmental intelligence tool for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly will help protect the region's precious wildlife and landscape.
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#1255642020-11-05
Researchers highlight the potential of tropical-tree‐sourced foods for sustainable food systems
Two of humanity's biggest problems—the climate crisis and abysmal eating habits—can partly be solved by one healthy solution: Eating more food from tropical trees. While global trends in agriculture and diets are not easily reversed, scientists say that creating incentives to grow and eat more m ...
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#1255652020-11-05
Study provides new data on the complex love-hate relationship between lions and hyenas
A team of researchers, led by the University of Granada, has unraveled the complex relationship between lions and hyaenas concerning the carrion on which they feed, which will help to better understand how the two largest African carnivores can coexist even in small natural reserves
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#1255662020-11-05
Smart collar to track your pet in real-time
CSIRO's Data61, the digital specialist arm of Australia's national science agency, announced today it is developing a prototype smart pet collar in collaboration with agtech company Ceres Tag, that will enable pet owners to accurately track the location of their animal from a short and long dist ...
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#1255672020-11-05
Eradicating black rats on Palmyra Atoll uncovers eye-opening indirect effects
The black rats weren't supposed to be there, on Palmyra Atoll. Likely arriving at the remote Pacific islet network as stowaways with the U.S. Navy during World War II, the rodents, with no natural predators, simply took over. Omnivorous eating machines, they dined on seabird eggs, native crabs a ...
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#1255692020-11-05
Nature-inspired design: Mimicking moth eyes to produce transparent anti-reflective coatings
There are many human problems that scientists and engineers have solved by drawing ideas directly from biomechanisms found in other lifeforms, from Velcro to Japan's famous bullet trains, the Shinkansen. Thus, it should not come as a surprise to know that many remarkable advances in anti-reflect ...
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#1255742020-11-05
Giant dormice the size of cats used to live on Sicily
New research involving the Museum is now looking into how and why the tiny mainland dormouse grew to such incredible sizes when isolated on islands
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#1255772020-11-05
The first duckbill dinosaur fossil from Africa hints at how dinosaurs once crossed oceans
The first fossils of a duckbilled dinosaur have been discovered in Africa, suggesting dinosaurs crossed hundreds of kilometres of open water to get there
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#1255782020-11-05
Multidisciplinary team to lead €10.4 million project, 4-OCEANS
Two researchers from Trinity College Dublin are among a four-strong team of principal investigators spearheading a new €10.4 million project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) to assess the importance of marine life to human societies during the last two millennia, with a focus on und ...
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#1255792020-11-05
Urban golf courses are biodiversity oases—opening them up puts that at risk
High demand for green space under COVID restrictions led councils in Melbourne to temporarily open golf courses to non-golfers and fuelled public calls to "unlock" or repurpose them permanently. However, this must be done carefully because many golf courses are oases of biodiversity in Australia ...
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#1255882020-11-06
In the Arctic, 'everything is changing,' massive animal tracking study finds
Animals across the Arctic are changing where and when they breed, migrate and forage in response to climate change, says a new study unveiling the massive scale of the change. The changes mean humans in the Arctic may have to adapt and adjust everything from hunting seasons to conservation to la ...
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#1255922020-11-06
Plastics and rising carbon dioxide levels could pose combined threat to marine environment
The combined environmental threat of plastic pollution and ocean acidification are having significant impacts on species living in our oceans, according to new research.