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#1318052021-11-18
Earthquakes and extreme rainfall lead to a significant increase in the rates of landslides in Nepal
Earthquakes and extreme rainfall can lead to a six-fold increase in the rates of rainfall-triggered landslides occurring during Nepal's monsoon season, according to new research.
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#1318072021-11-18
NASA study traces decade of ammonia air pollution in Africa
A new NASA-led study is the first to document changing atmospheric ammonia (NH3) concentrations in Africa over an extended period. Ammonia is an air pollutant which can lead to heart and lung related illness. When present in excess in an ecosystem, it can make soil more acidic and hinder plant g ...
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#1318092021-11-18
Your holiday trash could be contributing to environmental injustice
The past few weeks have been hectic. Almost every week we had a party at home. Usually, Diwali celebrations continue for a month. Families invite other families for lavish meals, show off their beautiful saris, and kids go to sleep very late—I mean VERY late.
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#1318082021-11-18
Climate change deniers are over attacking the science. Now they attack the solutions.
Believe it or not, it’s nearly 2022 and some people still think we shouldn’t do anything about the climate crisis. Even though most Americans understand that carbon emissions are overheating the planet and want to take action to stop it, attacks on clean energy and policies to limit carbon emiss ...
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#1318152021-11-18
How tracking forest biomass change from space informs carbon cycling models
Researchers are tracking the change in above-ground biomass with satellites to inform carbon cycling and global climate models. With the release of the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative 2020 dataset, adding to its existing collection, there is now a decade’s worth of global maps ...
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#1317472021-11-17
Study evaluates role of rivers in creating the Amazon’s rich biodiversity
Since the first European naturalists arrived in the Amazon Rainforest at the end of the 18th century to catalog its copious natural wonders, one of the most intriguing questions has been what created such rich biodiversity of flora and fauna in the region.
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#1317502021-11-17
Lab lobster: Corsican institute hopes breeding can solve overfishing
Inside a white-walled laboratory, an assistant dons rubber gloves and lowers a net into a water-filled tank taking up half the room. In a corner lurks a lobster.
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#1317532021-11-17
Breaking down glycosides in the gut and in nature
Rarely does a tool become more useful when it's broken, but that's just the case with C-glycoside, a molecule found in many plants, foods, and medicines. To be used by the body, C-glycosides must be broken down. Researchers in Japan have uncovered new insights into how this process occurs.
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#1317542021-11-17
Genetic diversity gives wild populations their best chance at long-term survival
Maintaining genetic variation is critical to allowing wild populations to survive, reproduce and adapt to future environmental changes, says a Colorado State University biodiversity expert.
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#1317552021-11-17
Researchers develop global timber tree barcoding library
China has become a leading exporter of wood products and importer of raw materials. Illegal logging poses a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystem services and drives deforestation.
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#1317562021-11-17
Birds' feeding habits are affected by their personality and self-control
For a long while, it was assumed that only humans have personalities or can exercise self-control. Now, biologists are beginning to discover that birds and other wild animals share these traits with humans.
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#1317572021-11-17
Protect nature to avoid future pandemics
Scientists have investigated the links between the COVID-19 pandemic and the deterioration of the world's ecosystems and their biodiversity, discovering feedback loops that suggest a potential increase in future pandemics.
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#1317592021-11-17
Researchers identify broccoli genes that affect freshness
As soon as a head of broccoli is harvested, an internal freshness clock starts counting down. Eventually, that crisp, green broccoli crown wilts and yellows.
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#1317622021-11-17
Woodland and hedgerow creation can play crucial role in action to reverse declines in pollinators
The largest survey of pollinator abundance in Wales has found that woodland and hedgerow creation can play a crucial role in action to reverse declines in insects that are essential for crop yield and other wildlife.
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#1317632021-11-17
After COP26, climate scientist says the world is on thin ice
For Kent Moore, the excitement of making a discovery is often tinged with sadness. That's because Moore, a professor of atmospheric physics at the University of Toronto Mississauga, focuses on the impact of climate change.
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#1317682021-11-17
A brief history of minimal surfaces and the ants that love them
Consider a soap bubble. The way it contains the minimal possible surface area is surprisingly efficient. This is not a trivial issue. Mathematicians have been looking for better ways to calculate minimal surfaces for hundreds of years.
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#1317692021-11-17
New yeast biodiversity for brewing
In a new study looking at the fundamentals of biology, scientists at The University of Manchester and the University of Leicester have developed unique fertile hybrid yeast strains that offer novel and exciting options for flavors, aromas, and brewing processes for the beverage industry.
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#1317712021-11-17
Artificial intelligence used to recognise primate behaviours in the wild
Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed new artificial intelligence (AI) models to recognize behaviors of chimpanzees in the wild.
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#1317722021-11-17
Beating biofilms: New study identifies essential genes for bacterial survival
Scientists from the Quadram Institute at the Norwich Research Park have made an important discovery into the workings of bacterial communities.
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#1317732021-11-17
Study sheds light on an important Pacific-to-Atlantic connecting current
On a planet covered mostly with water, ocean currents have far-reaching effects, from refreshing the nutrients that support ocean life to influencing coastal climates. These current networks are not set in stone, however, and any significant current changes have the potential to affect condition ...
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#1317742021-11-17
Scientists improving the 'crystal ball' for better climate predictions
Climate models are used to predict how the climate will likely respond to rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the coming decades, a timescale crucial to meeting the terms of the Paris Agreement. That's why it's necessary to keep developing and refining such models to better support climate p ...
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#1317162021-11-16
London pollution has improved but ULEZ had small effect soon after it was brought in, finds study
The researchers say their findings highlight that ULEZs are not a silver bullet and that sustained improvements in air pollution require multiple measures.
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#1317172021-11-16
Market forces halved methane emissions from Uinta Basin oil and gas wells; but that's not the whole story
As important as emissions of the greenhouse gas methane are in the climate conversation, recently factoring prominently in the recent COP26 conference in Glasgow, researchers have painfully little long-term data on emissions from wells and other oil and gas infrastructure.
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#1317182021-11-16
Woodrat microbiomes: It's who you are that matters most
Every mammal hosts a hidden community of other organisms—the microbiome. Their intestines teem with complex microbial populations that are critical for nutrition, fighting disease and degrading harmful toxins.
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#1317192021-11-16
Urban leopards of Korea's past could hold clues to species survival
Amur leopards were able to coexist with people within the city walls of Seoul, South Korea, in the 19th century, reports a study led by a UCL and ZSL researcher.
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#1317222021-11-16
Research gaps identified for next-generation conservation technologies to reduce biodiversity loss
More investment and support for research into emerging genomic tools for conservation is needed to prevent further biodiversity loss, according to a new paper published in Conversation Genetics.
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#1317262021-11-16
The oldest mineralized sponges in the world found in Ciudad Real
An international and multidisciplinary piece of research involving the participation of Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) concludes with the discovery of the mineralised fossil remains of the oldest sponges in the world—530 million years old—in phosphate deposits in Fontanarejo (Ciudad Real).
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#1317272021-11-16
Alluring larvae: Competition to attract fish drives species diversity among freshwater mussels
North America's freshwater mussels are both impressively diverse and highly imperiled. Nearly 300 species occur in the United States and Canada, and up to 40 species of the hard-shelled bottom dwellers can be found on a single stretch of a clean, swiftly flowing river.
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#1317282021-11-16
Researchers develop metrics to quantify information in animal responses to reward feedback
Daily life is full of choices. How humans and other animals decide to allocate tiime and effort across competing priorities has fascinated researchers for decades. Psychologists have found that most animals allocate their time among options in proportion to rewards received from the options, adj ...
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#1317302021-11-16
Disrupting the body clocks of fish could be bad for their health
Keeping fish under constant light—often used by fish farms to enhance growth or control reproduction—disrupts these daily rhythms and leads to increased susceptibility to parasites.
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#1317312021-11-16
Coral parents selected in hope of producing heat-tolerant babies
Marine scientists have returned from a research expedition to the far northern Great Barrier Reef with potentially tough, heat-resilient coral that may help corals adapt to warming oceans.
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#1317342021-11-16
Why sea level will rise for decades after we reach net zero carbon
If you were to dig a (very) deep hole that passed through the center of the Earth and kept going to the other side of the planet, where do you think you'd come out?
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#1317352021-11-16
Pollutant emissions in major seaports spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic
Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), have modeled that pollutant emissions from the shipping sector increased significantly in major international seaports during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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#1317362021-11-16
Flood modeling to help coastal communities develop solutions
In an aerial video from September, waves of seawater crash over the coastal railroad in San Clemente that connects Los Angeles and San Diego—a storm surge that ended up causing so much damage that Metrolink and Amtrak had to discontinue rail service in September and October while the tracks were ...
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#1317412021-11-16
Cyanobacteria blooms exceed WHO thresholds in Midwest lakes
The U.S. Midwest is known for its rolling agricultural fields, its many lakes, and, as of late, its harmful algal blooms. Fertilizer-laden waters running into lakes, rivers, and coastal areas feed sludgy blooms of algae, some of which are highly toxic. When the nutrients arrive, algae thrive—at ...
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#1317422021-11-16
Unraveling the origins of innate behavior in flies
Human babies are born knowing how to suckle, and larval flies hatch knowing how to crawl. But even these innate behaviors don't appear out of nowhere.
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#1316702021-11-15
Palm oil land grabs ‘trashing’ environment and displacing people
Businesses and governments must stop the growing rush of commodities-driven land grabbing, which is “trashing” the environment and displacing people, says new research.
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#1316712021-11-15
Rising humidity could be linked to increase in suicides, report finds
More frequent spells of intense humidity caused by the climate crisis are more likely than heatwaves to be linked to increased rates of suicide, according to new research.
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#1316932021-11-15
Ocean temperature patterns drive the West's wintertime storm tracks
About 20,000 years ago, large ice sheets loomed over North America, and researchers thought the ice, itself, pushed storms south, drenching the Southwest and leaving the Pacific Northwest dry.
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#1316942021-11-15
Bacteria engage sulfur for plant salt tolerance
Understanding the interplay between bacteria and sulfur is leading to exciting biotechnologies that could enable crops to be irrigated with salty water.
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#1316952021-11-15
More than 50 percent of all turtle species are threatened: New atlas of the turtles of the world published
An international team of scientists from the U.S., France, Australia, and Germany, including Senckenberg researcher Uwe Fritz has published the ninth edition of the atlas "Turtles of the World."
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#1316962021-11-15
How gene editing could be used as a weapon, and what to do about it
It has been over a year since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. And perhaps the most important lesson is that we were completely unprepared to face the debilitating virus.
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#1316972021-11-15
Studying plants' protective hair
Plants are master chemists, producing a dazzling array of molecules that are valuable to humans, including vitamins, pharmaceuticals and flavorings.
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#1316992021-11-15
Scientists look to extinct genes to protect endangered species and the climate
The first time geneticist George Church visited Siberia was the first summer the permafrost melted. Permafrost by its nature is supposed to stay frozen year-round, but in a marker of encroaching climate change, in 2018 the top layer of soil thawed and didn't refreeze.
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#1317002021-11-15
Europe is finding its hidden treasures to build its green, digital and climate-neutral economy
Researchers are finding ways to ensure we have a sufficient supply of the raw materials needed to make everything from laptops to satellites. Researchers looked at the high-tech geomodels that could lead Europe into a more secure and independent future.
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#1312892021-10-29
Climate change researcher presented with Grand Gold Medal
For the past century, IVA – the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences – has awarded the Grand Gold Medal and the Gold Medal annually to individuals who, through outstanding contributions in technology, economics, business and society, have contributed to create a better society.
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#1313072021-10-29
Asian spider takes hold in Georgia, sends humans scurrying
A large spider native to East Asia has spun its thick, golden web on power lines, porches and vegetable patches all over north Georgia this year—a proliferation that has driven some unnerved homeowners indoors and prompted a flood of anxious social media posts.
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#1313102021-10-29
Linking the past and present: Reconstructing the dragonfly and damselfly family tree
Many people hate insects, but the iridescent colors and elegant flying style of dragonflies and damselflies have made them firm favorites worldwide. They have been around in some form for hundreds of millions of years, but the evolutionary history of these relics of prehistoric life has been poo ...
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#1313112021-10-29
Peatlands protect against wildfire and flooding, but they're still under attack in Canada
When record-breaking wildfires in western Russia killed 65 people, injured 1,068, destroyed 3,500 homes and caused billions in damages in 2010, it was no longer business-as-usual in Russia's response to the impacts of climate change.
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#1313122021-10-29
Parasitic wasps turn other insects into 'zombies,' saving millions of humans along the way
Wasps have a reputation for being jerks because of their perceived aggressiveness and ability to sting repeatedly. They're often negatively compared with the honey production and agricultural pollination of bees.