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#1325682022-01-17
Tracing the origins of plants in West African cuisine
A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, in co-operation with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has uncovered the first insights into the origins of West African plant-based cuisine, locked inside pottery fragments dating back some 3,500 years ago.
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#1325692022-01-17
Fighting weeds in a changing world
The world is warming. And fast. By 2050, it's likely the planet will have warmed by about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit compared to before the Industrial Revolution. That warming brings substantial changes. Storms will be stronger. People will run their air conditioners more. It will even change when a ...
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#1325702022-01-17
Evolution follows climate: Oaks adapted rapidly to climate change in the Anthropocene
The acceleration of global warming due to human activities has made the pace of tree evolution and adaptation a core concern of researchers and foresters. Researchers from INRAE, the ONF, the CEA and the universities of Uppsala (Sweden) and Zhejiang (China) studied the evolution of oak trees in ...
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#1325712022-01-17
Major new study shows role beavers could play in restoring Scotland's rivers
Beavers could make an important contribution to improving the condition of Scotland's rivers, including helping to improve water quality and limiting the effects of drought.
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#1324832022-01-14
Strong evidence shows Sixth Mass Extinction of global biodiversity in progress
The history of life on Earth has been marked five times by events of mass biodiversity extinction caused by extreme natural phenomena. Today, many experts warn that a Sixth Mass Extinction crisis is underway, this time entirely caused by human activities.
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#1324992022-01-14
‘Nothing but fish nests’: huge icefish colony found in Antarctic sea
Researchers exploring Antarctica’s seabed have discovered a thriving, unprecedented colony of icefish “about a third of the size of London”.
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#1325132022-01-14
New study overturns popular theory on evolution of termite size
Researchers have completed a comprehensive analysis of the head width of over 1500 species of termites and determined that their size isn't gradually shrinking at a geological timescale.
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#1325142022-01-14
Copper-based chemicals may be contributing to ozone depletion
Copper released into the environment from fungicides, brake pads, antifouling paints on boats and other sources may be contributing significantly to stratospheric ozone depletion, according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley.
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#1325152022-01-14
Rivers speeding up Arctic ice melt at alarming rate, experts say
Irina Panyushkina grew up in Siberia, near the Arctic Circle. She was raised on stories of explorers trudging through seas of ice to reach the North Pole.
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#1325162022-01-14
Earth's interior is cooling faster than expected
Researchers at ETH Zurich have demonstrated in the lab how well a mineral common at the boundary between the Earth's core and mantle conducts heat. This leads them to suspect that the Earth's heat may dissipate sooner than previously thought.
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#1325172022-01-14
Groundwater measurements of herbicide may underestimate human exposure
Atrazine ranks as a common herbicide in the United States—where it's popular to elevate corn and sorghum yields by curbing weed growth.
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#1325182022-01-14
Meet a colorful but color-blind spider
Jumping spiders, the flamboyant dandies of the eight-legged set, have names inspired by peacocks, cardinals and other colorful icons.
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#1325192022-01-14
Scientists uncover 'resistance gene' in deadly E. coli
Scientists have pinpointed a gene that helps deadly E. coli bacteria evade antibiotics, potentially leading to better treatments for millions of people worldwide
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#1325202022-01-14
Two new species of freshwater goby fish discovered in the Philippines
A team of biologists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan and Western Philippines University (WPU) in the Philippines have found two new species of goby fish in Palawan, a Philippine archipelago. The goby fish, both belonging to the genus Rhino ...
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#1325212022-01-14
Researchers discover activation mechanisms in soybean for adaptation to saline soil
Farmlands are turning more saline due to climate change, rising sea levels, expanding drylands and groundwater depletion. This crisis is exacerbated by unsustainable farming practices. The resulting loss in crop yield threatens malnourished populations across the globe.
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#1325222022-01-14
Recovering mantle memories from river profiles
The continent of Africa has a distinctive physical geography—an "egg carton" pattern of basins and swells—that researchers attribute to plumes of mantle rocks rising beneath a tectonic plate.
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#1325232022-01-14
Six questions to understand the sixth warmest year on record
2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest year on a record that extends back to 1880, according to NASA's annual analysis of global average temperatures. The year contributed to an unprecedented, but well-understood trend in which the last eight years have been the warmest ever recorded.
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#1325242022-01-14
Technological solutions to droughts
Perennial water shortages in California will likely only grow worse due to climate change. But emerging technologies offer hope—if Californians can stop taking water for granted, says David Feldman, UCI professor of urban planning & public policy and director of Water UCI.
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#1325252022-01-14
Repeated exposure to major disasters has long-term mental health impacts
Repeated exposure to major disasters does not make people mentally stronger, a recent study from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health found that individuals who have been repeatedly exposed to major disasters show a reduction in mental health scores.
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#1325262022-01-14
Coastal erosion may force retreat from the sea
Giving up land to the sea needs to be one of the options considered for responding to serious erosion events along our coastline, says a University of the Sunshine Coast researcher.
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#1325272022-01-14
Atmospheric river storm observations over Pacific Ocean to expand this winter
"Hurricane Hunter" aircraft are mobilizing for an expanded 13-week period that began Jan. 5 to glean critical data for improving forecasts of atmospheric river storms over the Pacific Ocean. Such storms provide up to half of the U.S. West Coast's annual precipitation and a majority of the flooding.
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#1325292022-01-14
What COVID-19 can teach fish farms
When it comes to the business of seafood, COVID-19 hasn't been nearly as damaging as the ecological havoc caused by humans, a recent global survey of fish farms found.
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#1325302022-01-14
The Sixth Global Biodiversity Mass Extinction is Already Happening
Extreme natural phenomena have caused mass biodiversity extinction five times throughout the history of life on Earth. Many experts now believe that a Sixth Mass Extinction is underway, this time caused entirely by human activities.
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#1324592022-01-13
Research links large industrial farming to biodiversity loss
Though there is a suggestion that large industrial farms can harm biodiversity, there are solutions farmers can put in place to mitigate this and promote wildlife growth in agricultural settings.
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#1324682022-01-13
Study: Biodiversity richness of butterflies peaks in October in Tadoba National Park
A duo of zoologists from Mumbai has traced butterfly species variations as per seasonal changes in Chandrapur’s Tadoba National Park.
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#1324712022-01-13
UVic trio part of biodiversity project awarded $24M
Three UVic researchers are part of a project that was awarded $24 million on Wednesday to study an existential topic: the survival of life on Earth.
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#1324202022-01-12
Predator species help to buffer climate change impacts on biodiversity
Predator species may buffer the negative impacts of climate change by mitigating against the loss of biodiversity, according to new research led by scientists in Trinity College Dublin and Hokkaido University.
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#1324212022-01-12
Researchers sequence the quinoa genome, and introduce crop hybrids to developing nations
As soils across the world become less fertile and more desert-like due to climate change, it's getting harder for farmers, especially those in developing nations, to grow basic life-preserving crops such as corn, wheat and rice.
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#1324222022-01-12
Uncovering the mysteries of methylation in plants
Growing up is a complex process for multi-celled organisms—plants included. In the days or weeks it takes to go from a seed to a sprout to a full plant, plants express hundreds of genes in different places at different times.
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#1324232022-01-12
Mystery of glowing shrimp deepens
Many deep-sea shrimp glow but researchers have found the light organs in deep-sea shrimp may have evolved depending on depth and habitat.
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#1324242022-01-12
Bringing a justice lens to wildlife management
Almost all of the world's 31 largest carnivore species, including gray wolves, grizzly bears, cheetahs and lions, have been impacted by human development and activity. Most of these animals have seen their range and populations decline over the past century, and many are listed as threatened by ...
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#1324262022-01-12
Extensive practical guide to DNA-based biodiversity assessment methods
Between 2016 and 2021, over 500 researchers collaborated within the DNAqua-Net international network, funded by the European Union's European Cooperation in Science and Technology program (COST), with the goal to develop and advance biodiversity assessment methods based on analysis of DNA obtain ...
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#1324282022-01-12
Iconic flower's genetic puzzle revealed
Scientists led by UNSW have pieced together the complex genetic puzzle of the floral emblem of New South Wales, the iconic Australian waratah.
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#1324422022-01-12
Ocean warming has caused fish to shrink in size
Researchers have found that ocean warming, acidification and oxygen depletion have caused a species shift, causing fish to have smaller body sizes
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#1324432022-01-12
Overcoming the Challenges of Ocean Data Uncertainty
Data characterizing the ocean are inherently estimates and are therefore uncertain. This is true of all in situ and remotely sensed observations—of, say, sea surface temperature or sea level—as well as of outputs and forecasts from numerical models and of analysis products resulting from the syn ...
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#1324442022-01-12
Oceans were hotter in 2021 than at any time in recorded history
New research out this week shows that the world's oceans last year were hotter than they've ever been in recorded history — part of a long-term warming trend driven primarily by planet-wrecking fossil fuel emissions.
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#1324502022-01-12
Earliest human remains in eastern Africa dated to more than 230,000 years ago
The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of a massive volcanic eruption in Ethiopia reveals they are much older than previously thought.
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#1324512022-01-12
Study challenges evolutionary theory that DNA mutations are random
A simple roadside weed may hold the key to understanding and predicting DNA mutation, according to new research from University of California, Davis, and the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Germany.
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#1324552022-01-12
Weaving Indigenous knowledge into the scientific method
Many scientists rely on Indigenous people to guide their work — by helping them to find wildlife, navigate rugged terrain or understand changing weather trends, for example. But these relationships have often felt colonial, extractive and unequal. Researchers drop into communities, gather data a ...
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#1323912022-01-11
Scientists call for a moratorium on climate change research until governments take real action
Decades of scientific evidence demonstrate unequivocally that human activities jeopardise life on Earth. Dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system compounds many other drivers of global change.
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#1323972022-01-11
Investigating benthic marine redox conditions from late Permian to earliest Triassic
Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NGIPAS), China University of Mining and Technology and Nanjing University revealed benthic marine redox conditions and driving mechanisms from Late Permian to the earliest Triassic at Shangsi, ...
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#1323982022-01-11
Scientists reveal evolutions and mechanisms of extreme precipitation along the Yangtze River during summer 2020
Record-breaking, persistent, and sometimes heavy precipitation fell throughout the Yangtze River Valley (YRV) during June-July 2020. According to Prof. Tim Li, an Atmospheric Scientist at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the summer of 202 ...
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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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#1324032022-01-11
Fungi found to regulate host gene expression of a plant through the use of miRNAs
A team of researchers from Australia, the U.S. and France reports evidence of a fungus regulating host gene expression of a plant using miRNA. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes using sRNA sequencing of data and in situ miRNA detectio ...
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#1324042022-01-11
First fossil pods of genus Mucuna in legume family discovered in northern Vietnam
Mucuna is a pantropical genus with approximately 105 extant species of climbing lianas (vines) and shrubs in the legume family (Fabaceae), the third-largest family of flowering plants. Although the genus Mucuna is well represented in modern tropical regions, fossil records of this genus are limi ...
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#1324052022-01-11
Severe irrigation restrictions due to drought would threaten almond plantations
In Spain, the drought between 1991 and 1995 led to restrictions in the allocation of water for crops and cuts in supplies. What would have happened at that time to the intensive, irrigated almond plantations that have been planted in Spain for more than a decade?
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#1324072022-01-11
Researchers switch off gene to switch on ultraviolet in butterfly wings
A team of researchers at the George Washington University has identified a gene that determines whether ultraviolet iridescence shows up in the wings of butterflies. In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team showed that removing the gene in butterflies who ...
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#1324082022-01-11
Study finds distinct gut microbiomes in male and female carnivores
A recent study found a dramatic difference between the microbial diversity in guts of female and male American minks (Neovison vison). The finding suggests there is an unexpected sexual distinction in the gut microbiomes of carnivores, which has ramifications for future wildlife research.
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#1324102022-01-11
Without urgent action, these are the street trees unlikely to survive climate change
Cities around the world are on the front line of climate change, and calls are growing for more urban cooling. Many governments are spending big on new trees in public places—but which species are most likely to thrive in a warmer world?
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#1324112022-01-11
Plants rely on the CLASSY gene family to diversify their epigenomes
What determines how a cell's genome is regulated to ensure proper growth and development? Turns out, the parts of the genome that are turned on or off in each cell-type or tissue play a major role in this process.