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#1258502020-11-25
One-fifth of ecosystems in danger of collapse – here’s what that might look like
One in five countries are at risk of their ecosystems collapsing, threatening more than half of global GDP (US$42 trillion, or £32 trillion), according to recent research. This scary sounding statistic raises all sorts of questions.
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#1258512020-11-25
Snow Leopard researchers call for ethical standards for wildlife camera trapping
New research published in Ecological Evidence and Solutions explores the ethical and legal responsibilities of capturing humans on wildlife camera traps.
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#1258542020-11-25
Research shows public not concerned over climate crisis
New research in Europe and the United States shows that large portions of the public still do not accept the urgency of the climate crisis, and only a minority believe it will impact them and their families severely over the next fifteen years.
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#1258562020-11-25
Q. Is vertebrate biodiversity declining? A. Depends on how you look at the data
It’s difficult to distill the status of the world’s many and diverse life forms into a single number. But this doesn’t stop people from trying. The Living Planet Index regularly estimates the average decline of vertebrate populations worldwide since 1970; the current report puts the decline at 6 ...
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#1258602020-11-25
Research team finds effect of odor on helpfulness in rats
Despite their reputation, rats are surprisingly sociable and actually regularly help each other out with tasks. Researchers at the Universities of Göttingen, Bern and St Andrews have now shown that a rat only has to smell the scent of another rat that is engaged in helpful behavior to increase h ...
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#1258612020-11-25
Fossils show 66 million years of insects eating kauri trees
Exquisitely preserved feeding marks on fossil conifer leaves show that the same insect feeding and fungi persisted for millions of years on the same type of plant, from ancient Patagonian rainforests to the modern rainforests of the tropical West Pacific.
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#1258622020-11-25
New discovery allows early detection of shade avoidance syndrome in plants
Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise in Singapore and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) have discovered a ...
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#1258652020-11-25
Is it a bird? Is it a bee? No, it's a lizard pollinating South Africa's 'hidden flower'
Towards the end of 2017, PhD candidate Ruth Cozien and her husband Dr Timo van der Niet were attending a citizen science workshop high up in South Africa’s Drakensberg mountains when they stumbled across “this weird plant with green flowers hidden beneath its leaves, a really strong scent and en ...
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#1258742020-11-26
Scientists call for decade of concerted effort to enhance understanding of the deep seas
The deep seas - vast expanses of water and seabed hidden more than 200 metres below the ocean surface to depths up to 11,000 metres - are recognised globally as an important frontier of science and discovery.
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#1258782020-11-26
For female flies, mating requires the right musical backdrop
A new study traces the neural circuit that makes a female fly receptive to a mating advance.A new study traces the neural circuit that makes a female fly receptive to a mating advance.
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#1258792020-11-26
Understanding traditional Chinese medicine can help protect species
Demystifying traditional Chinese medicine for conservationists could be the key to better protecting endangered species like pangolins, tigers and rhino, according to University of Queensland-led researchers.
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#1258932020-11-27
New research shows even small ships pose deadly threat to North American right whales
It has long been known that ship strikes involving large vessels pose one of the greatest threats to North Atlantic right whales, whose coastal habitats and tendency to stay close to the water's surface make them vulnerable to such deadly collisions.
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#1258952020-11-27
Study of threatened desert tortoises offers new conservation strategy
In Nevada's dry Ivanpah Valley, just southeast of Las Vegas, a massive unintended experiment in animal conservation has revealed an unexpected result.
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#1258962020-11-27
Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children – study
People worried about the climate crisis are deciding not to have children because of fears that their offspring would have to struggle through a climate apocalypse, according to the first academic study of the issue.
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#1259042020-11-27
How will sharks respond to climate change? It might depend on where they grew up
They may have been around for hundreds of millions of years—long before trees—but today sharks and rays are are among the most threatened animals in the world, largely because of overfishing and habitat loss.
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#1259082020-11-27
This is how we prevent future pandemics, say 22 leading scientists
Here’s the good news: we can prevent future pandemics. But only if we take steps to protect the environment and restore its natural defences, according to an international group of 22 leading scientists.
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#1259212020-12-01
Deep-sea volcanoes: Windows into the subsurface
Hydrothermally-active submarine volcanoes account for much of Earth's volcanism and are mineral-rich biological hotspots, yet very little is known about the dynamics of microbial diversity in these systems.
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#1259342020-12-01
New snail subspecies with ‘upside down shell’ found in last green frontier east of Manila
In 2017, a group of researchers surveying mollusks in a popular ecotourism site east of the Philippine capital stumbled upon a tiny land snail with a unique “upside down shell.”
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#1259372020-12-01
Why did the woolly rhino go extinct?
In the arctic tundra of northeastern Siberia lies a graveyard of a now-extinct species of megafauna, the woolly rhinoceros, dating back 50,000 years. Now, a new genomic analysis of the remains of 14 of these fantastical furry yellow creatures shows that climate change was the likely culprit for ...
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#1259462020-12-01
The 'smell' of coral as an indicator of reef health
A study conducted in the southern Great Barrier Reef reveals the chemical diversity of emissions from healthy corals. The researchers found that across the reef-building coral species studied on Heron Island, the abundance and chemical diversity of their gas emissions fell significantly during h ...
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#1259472020-12-01
How the shrew brain adapts to winter
Seasonal, energy-conserving neural adaptions could allow shrews to reduce their metabolic demands during winter, a study finds. Animals adapt to changing environmental conditions such as seasonal cycles to enhance their chances of survival. Although seasonal variation is associated with well-kno ...
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#1259482020-12-01
Peeking into the pods of black soybeans
Nagoya University scientists have furthered understanding of how plants make a common pigment that might have medicinal applications. They published their findings in the journal Scientific Reports.
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#1259492020-12-01
Birds able to adjust egg-laying date
Many birds are able to change their egg-laying date to cope with variable conditions, new research shows.The study examined birds and mammals, and found birds in particular showed the ability to find the "optimum" laying date.
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#1259502020-12-01
Stickleback study reveals 'parallel' evolution
Animal species in different parts of the world can evolve in "parallel" in response to similar conditions, according to a new study of fish.
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#1259512020-12-01
Flashy lizards are more attractive to mates and to predators
In the lizard world, flashy colors attract the interest of females looking for mates. But they can make colorful males desirable to other eyes, too—as lunch.
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#1259522020-12-01
Unexpected similarity between honey bee and human social life
Bees and humans are about as different organisms as one can imagine. Yet despite their many differences, surprising similarities in the ways that they interact socially have begun to be recognized in the last few years. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, b ...
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#1259532020-12-01
Examining climate effects of regional nuclear exchange
A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers has found that the global climatic consequences of a regional nuclear weapons exchange could range from a minimal impact to more significant cooling lasting years.
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#1259572020-12-02
A68a: World's biggest iceberg is fraying at the edges
Iceberg A68a has been imaged at high resolution for the first time in months - and it's in a ragged condition. The world's biggest berg is riven with cracks. Battered by waves and under constant attack from warm waters, it's now shedding countless small blocks. A68a, which broke away from Antarc ...
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#1259582020-12-02
Small waters 'can help address biodiversity crisis'
Experts are calling for urgent action to protect England's ponds, ditches and streams. Small freshwater habitats contain an abundance of life, including rare amphibians, insects and plants, they say. Yet, unlike large lakes and rivers, there is no obligation to monitor and protect them.
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#1259622020-12-02
World is ‘doubling down’ on fossil fuels despite climate crisis – UN report
The world’s governments are “doubling down” on fossil fuels despite the urgent need for cuts in carbon emissions to tackle the climate crisis, a report by the UN and partners has found.
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#1259692020-12-02
Elephants found to have the highest volume of daily water loss ever recorded in a land animal
A team of researchers from Duke University, the University of the Witwatersrand and Hunter College has found that elephants have the highest volume of daily water loss ever recorded in a land animal. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes experime ...
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#1259702020-12-02
New tuberous species of begonia found in southern Yunnan
Begonia comprises the sixth-largest genus of angiosperms and the number of accepted species of Begonia currently reaches more than 1,991 species. In China, about 221 species have been recorded according to the Flora of China.
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#1259712020-12-02
How lessons from bees, leaves and our own blood may help us save civilization
Once upon a time, everything theoretically could be managed with neatly functioning human inventions: wars could be won, diseases cured, weather predicted, crops improved. These days, things seem to be spinning out of control: violent weather, catastrophic wildfires, political upheavals, a globa ...
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#1259722020-12-02
Why there's a lot more to love about jacarandas than just their purple flowers
Every spring, streets across Australia turn purple with the delicate, falling flowers of jacarandas. This year, they'll likely be flowering over Christmas.
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#1259732020-12-02
Tomato's wild ancestor is a genomic reservoir for plant breeders
Thousands of years ago, people in South America began domesticating Solanum pimpinellifolium, a weedy plant with small, intensely flavored fruit. Over time, the plant evolved into S. lycopersicum—the modern cultivated tomato.
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#1259752020-12-02
Not all blackened landscapes are bad. We must learn to love the right kind
The devastation wrought by last summer's unprecedented bushfires created blackened landscapes across Australia. New life is sprouting, but with fires burning again in New South Wales and Queensland we have once more seen burnt land and smoke plumes.
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#1259762020-12-02
Researchers ask public for help finding lingering ash trees
The search is on for lingering ash, those rare trees that have managed to survive the deadly onslaught of the emerald ash borer. Finding them in the forest is like looking for a needle in the haystack, but the University of Kentucky Department of Forestry and Natural Resources is partnering with ...
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#1259932020-12-03
Scientists predict 'optimal' organism stress levels
Scientists have created an evolutionary model to predict how animals should react in stressful situations.Almost all organisms have fast-acting stress responses, which help them respond to threats—but being stressed uses energy, and chronic stress can be damaging.
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#1259942020-12-03
Flightless birds more common globally before human-driven extinctions
There would be at least four times as many flightless bird species on Earth today if it were not for human influences, finds a study led by UCL researchers.The study, published in Science Advances, finds that flightlessness evolved much more frequently among birds than would be expected if you o ...
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#1259952020-12-03
The making of mysterious mazes: How animals got their complex colorations
Why do leopards have spots and zebras have stripes? Many biologists have tried to answer these questions and have provided interesting hypotheses, including camouflage, thermoregulation, and insect repellent. But how did animals get these skin patterns? It is still difficult to answer this question.
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#1259962020-12-03
Once in a lifetime floods to become regular occurrences by end of century
Superstorm Sandy brought flood-levels to the New York region that had not been seen in generations. Causing an estimated $74.1 billion in damages, it was the fourth-costliest U.S. storm behind Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and hurricanes Harvey and Maria in 2017 according to the National Oceanic and ...
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#1260002020-12-03
Antarctic place names recognise 'modern explorers'
Antarctica is getting 28 new place names to recognise British individuals who've made a major contribution to advancing science in the polar regions. The list includes Jonathan Shanklin, co-discoverer of the ozone hole, and Alastair Fothergill, whose BBC films such as Frozen Planet have widened ...
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#1260122020-12-03
Pilot whale study reveals copycat calls to outsmart predators
New Curtin University research has found southern Australian long-finned pilot whales are able to mimic the calls of its natural predator and food rival—the killer whale, as a possible ploy to outsmart it.
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#1260132020-12-03
A first step to plant made dengue virus vaccines
Researchers have used plants to produce virus-like particles (VLPs) of the dengue virus in a potential first step towards novel vaccines against the growing threat.
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#1260142020-12-03
Study plots pythons' history in Australia
Pythons first arrived in Australia from Asia around 23 million years ago and then adapted to their new home by becoming incredibly diverse, according to new research from The Australian National University (ANU).
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#1260152020-12-03
Climate change is resulting in profound, immediate and worsening health impacts, over 120 researchers say
Climate change is resulting in profound, immediate and worsening health impacts, and no country is immune, a major new report from more than 120 researchers has declared.
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#1260162020-12-03
Water samples reveal microplastics in remote Patagonian fjord system
New research has found microplastics in every sample taken from a vast fjord system in remote Chilean Patagonia, showing the immense global scale of marine plastic pollution. Cristóbal Castillo and his research team from the Universidad de Concepción published their findings last month in the Ma ...
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#1260192020-12-03
To save life on Earth, consult this new map
Reversing biodiversity loss, halting climate change and even preventing the emergence of new pandemics may seem like isolated objectives, but they are not. A group of scientists set out to create an interactive digital map to show which land areas are essential to meet these challenges and save ...
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#1260282020-12-07
What will 2021 bring in the world of conservation?
A team of scientists and researchers from around the world come up with 15 trends with potentially large impacts on biodiversity conservation, and release their findings in scientific journal 'Trends in Ecology & Evolution'.
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#1260302020-12-07
IAEA and UN’s FAO start campaign to protect soil biodiversity on World Soil Day 2020
The IAEA, in collaboration with FAO, contributes annually to about 50 technical cooperation projects and leads five coordinated research projects toward improving soil management and soil health, including in drought-prone areas.