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#1313132021-10-29
Studying Terfezia, the mysterious desert truffles, with an eye toward ecology and cultivation
In a caring, symbiotic relationship, mycorrhizal fungi live and feed in the roots of specific plants, while providing water and nutrients to their "companion." In arid and semi-arid environments, mycorrhization processes are essential to the survival of both plants and fungi. Moreover, the fungu ...
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#1313142021-10-29
Scientists join international push to ban harmful fisheries subsidies
Three hundred scientists from 255 institutions in 46 countries, including Professor Dirk Zeller and Ph.D. candidate Lincoln Hood from The University of Western Australia, are asking members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to ban harmful fisheries subsidies at the 12th Ministerial Conferenc ...
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#1313152021-10-29
How echolocation adapts to environments
Eran Amichai, a postdoctoral fellow in ecology, evolution, environment and society, studies how echolocation signals differ within a population of big brown bats. Amichai records echolocation signals to identify specific bats, and then films the individuals in a large chamber with open and woode ...
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#1313182021-10-29
Analyzing technologies' climate efficiency in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Technologies for the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere (direct air capture, or DAC for short) are already in use, but neither their actual benefits for climate protection nor their other environmental impact have yet to be investigated.
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#1313192021-10-29
Antarctic sea-ice plays an important role in regulating Earth's energy budget
When Earth's snow and ice cover melts, the reflectivity of Earth's surface—known as albedo—decreases. And when the albedo of Earth's surface decreases, a smaller share of sunlight is reflected back into space.
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#1312342021-10-28
Barcoding the Norfolk Broads to discover local biodiversity is part of project to sequence all UK species
As part of the pioneering UK-led Darwin Tree of Life project (DToL), the Wellcome and UKRI-BBSRC funded ‘Barcoding the Broads’ programme provides training on how to collect samples and then sequence a DNA barcode of species found in the East of England. Showcasing the modern scientific disciplin ...
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#1312392021-10-28
Giant pandas' distinctive black and white markings provide effective camouflage, study finds
The high-contrast pattern of giant pandas helps them blend in with their natural environment. Researchers at the University of Bristol, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Jyväskylä have used state-of-the art image analysis techniques to demonstrate, counterintuitively, that the un ...
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#1312412021-10-28
Antarctic ozone hole is 13th largest on record and expected to persist into November
The 2021 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum area on October 7 and ranks 13th largest since 1979, scientists from NOAA and NASA reported today. This year's ozone hole developed similarly to last year's:
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#1312452021-10-28
Reviews highlight consequences of failing to tackle climate change
A set of scientific reviews published today reinforces the urgent need for global action to reduce the impact of climate change on vital carbon sinks, our oceans and the Arctic.
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#1312502021-10-28
Turkey's Lake Tuz dries up due to climate change, farming
For centuries, Lake Tuz in central Turkey has hosted huge colonies of flamingos that migrate and breed there when the weather is warm, feeding on algae in the lake's shallow waters.
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#1312542021-10-28
UNESCO: Human Activity, Climate Change Turn World Heritage Forests Into Carbon Emitters
UNESCO researchers have discovered that human activity and climate change-related disasters have changed ten of the world's internationally recognised forests, often known as World Heritage Sites, from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters.
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#1312632021-10-28
Sir David Attenborough polar ship makes its London debut
The UK's new polar research ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, has completed basic sea trials and is ready to undertake its first expedition.
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#1312672021-10-28
Reliance on modern irrigation technologies as a water-use efficiency strategy is a 'zombie idea'
A team of scientists, including experts from the University of Adelaide, suggest that reliance on modern irrigation technologies as a water-use efficiency strategy is a "zombie idea"—one that persists no matter how much evidence is thrown against it.
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#1311962021-10-27
Taking the pulse of flies: Study reveals fly hearts respond to danger the same way human hearts do
The sound of an accelerating heartbeat can instantly send chills down your spine. You know that sound means trouble. We are so accustomed to the way our hearts seem to continuously mirror how we feel that we can easily imagine different hearts racing, aching or skipping a beat.
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#1311972021-10-27
A heart that beats (almost) like our own
The fruit fly, long the organism of choice for scientists studying genetics and basic biological processes, still harbors some secrets of its own.
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#1311982021-10-27
Wild monkey sanctuary could be beginning of end for decades-old colony in Florida
A colony of wild monkeys in Dania Beach soon may get a permanent home, complete with fences, medical care and regular meals. But the creation of a monkey sanctuary east of the Fort Lauderdale airport may mark the beginning of the end of a bizarre wildlife population that has survived on a wedge ...
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#1311992021-10-27
Biodiversity collections address science workforce needs
The task of training an effective cadre of biodiversity scientists has grown more challenging in recent years, as foundational skills and knowledge in organismal biology have increasingly required complementary data skills and knowledge. Writing in BioScience, Dr. Anna K. Monfils, of Central Mic ...
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#1312002021-10-27
First overview of archaea in vertebrates
Archaea are often mistaken as bacteria, given that both are small, single-cell organisms. However, archaea are as genetically different from bacteria as humans are from bacteria. While archaea are found in most environments, including the human gut microbiome, relatively little is known about th ...
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#1312012021-10-27
Study confirms mistaken identity may explain why sharks bite humans
World-first research testing a simulated 'shark vision' model on swimming patterns of humans, seals and sea-lions, confirms theories that when great white sharks bite humans, it may be a case of mistaken identity.
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#1312022021-10-27
How do plants act fast to fight off infections?
New work led by Carnegie's Kangmei Zhao and Sue Rhee reveals a new mechanism by which plants are able to rapidly activate defenses against bacterial infections. This understanding could inspire efforts to improve crop yields and combat global hunger.
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#1312102021-10-27
Sinkholes on receding Dead Sea shore mark 'nature's revenge'
In the heyday of the Ein Gedi spa in the 1960s, holidaymakers could marinate in heated pools and then slip into the briny Dead Sea. Now the same beach is punctured by craters.
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#1312152021-10-27
No home where the buffalo roam? Birds decline after bison return to conservation grasslands
American bison narrowly escaped extinction due to overhunting in the 19th century, but their populations have since rebounded thanks to modern conservation efforts. Today, bison are increasingly being reintroduced to new areas of their historic range. Many of these areas provide important nestin ...
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#1312172021-10-27
More Fun Than Fun: Decoding the Babbles of Crickets, Birds and Undergrads
In many branches of natural science, research findings are communicated through peer-reviewed technical papers. In most cases, the titles of the papers are optimised to be factually accurate and to keep away (and not waste time) of all but those who are sure to be interested in their contents. S ...
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#1312182021-10-27
Tulane professor wins $2 million grant to make coffee growing more sustainable
For coffee drinkers, there’s nothing like that first sip in the morning. For Tulane University researchers studying the sustainability of coffee in Honduras, the stakes are far higher than a tempting cup of joe.
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#1311692021-10-26
Why some of Darwin's finch nestlings have yellow beaks
Carotenoids are the underlying pigment for much of the enormous variety of color found across birds and form the basis for the colors red, yellow and orange. In a study published in Current Biology, researchers from Uppsala University and Princeton University have uncovered the genetic basis for ...
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#1311702021-10-26
Fossil rivers of the Sahara tell of the threat of warming
Why did the people living near the Nile river migrate to central Egypt 10,000 years ago, when the Egyptian Sahara was still green? Geologists led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have studied the fossil rivers north of Lake Nasser in Egypt in order to reconstruct the palaeo-hydr ...
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#1311712021-10-26
Tiny swimming creatures can create big currents in lake water
Lakes are usually pictured as tranquil environments, largely uninfluenced by the enormous tidal power which drives the oceans. But the surface winds that act upon lakes can significantly alter the environment in which many lake species thrive—particularly during summer.
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#1311722021-10-26
What really makes fish become sexually active
Discounting anthropogenic-induced changes, the seasonally oscillating environments where long-lived fish hatch and grow remain more or less the same throughout the course of their lives.
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#1311732021-10-26
Fish are being increasingly exposed to endocrine disrupters
Microplastics, owing to their chemical properties, can carry micropollutants into a fish's digestive system where they are subsequently released through the action of its gastric and intestinal fluids. EPFL scientists, working in association with other research institutes, have studied this proc ...
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#1311772021-10-26
Video: Why net zero (and what is it?)
"There is no way we are going to be able to ban the entire world from using fossil fuels in time to meet our climate goals," warns Professor Myles Allen, the Oxford expert credited with first demonstrating, 15 years ago, the need for net-zero carbon dioxide emissions to stop global warming.
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#1311922021-10-26
Advancing agriculture threatens the livelihoods of forest-dependent people
Forest-dependent people living across the Gran Chaco have been put on the map for the first time. As agribusiness expands into the dry forest on which they rely, the impact of that expansion on them has been difficult to document because their homesteads are dotted over 1 million km2.
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#1311242021-10-25
Climate change lowers nutrition and increases toxicity at base of food web: Study
According to research from Dartmouth College and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, climate change impacts on freshwater systems can lower nutrition and increase toxicity at the base of the food web.
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#1311292021-10-25
Aerial scanning can help protect food crops against devastating disease
Virulent diseases which devastate food crops like coffee, almond, citrus and grapevines with serious global economic and environmental consequences, could be controlled by large-scale aerial scanning, says new collaborative research involving Swansea University.
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#1311302021-10-25
What is drawing humpback whale super-groups to the African coast?
Super-groups of up to 200 humpback whales appearing off the coast of South Africa are following changing ocean currents and phytoplankton blooms, a new study has found.
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#1311322021-10-25
Permafrost thaw could release bacteria and viruses
When considering the implications of thawing permafrost, our initial worries are likely to turn to the major issue of methane being released into the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming or issues for local communities as the ground and infrastructure become unstable.
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#1311332021-10-25
Tackling a 40 million-year-old conundrum
Silicate minerals are the major components of most rocks. When these minerals on the Earth's surface come into contact with water, they partially dissolve as they react with carbon dioxide in the water.
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#1311342021-10-25
Assessing seismic activity near site of planned city NEOM
The potential for major earthquakes around the southern end of the Gulf of Aqaba may be lower than geophysicists feared. Separate studies by two students, using quite different approaches but arriving at similar findings, give hope that there will be low risks for emerging cities on the nearby s ...
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#1311352021-10-25
A megafire induced over a century's worth of erosion near Utah Lake—but there's more to the story, say scientists
As Hurricane Rosa hurtled toward Baja California in October 2018, two BYU students spotted a valuable research opportunity. Utah County, still smoldering from the devastating Pole Creek megafire that same year, was forecast to receive days of heavy rain in the wake of the hurricane's landfall.
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#1311362021-10-25
Measuring sea level rise along the coast
Earth's ocean is clearly rising. Between the loss of land and sea ice and warmer waters expanding, rising sea level is a global issue. But the equation governing exactly where the land meets the ocean also depends on the land itself.
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#1311392021-10-25
Climate scientists fear tipping points (maybe you should too)
Leaders may be going into the UN climate summit in Glasgow with the do-or-die goal of limiting global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, but breaching that cap is not what keeps scientists awake at night.
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#1311422021-10-25
Looking for musical abilities in primates
Songbirds share the human sense of rhythm, but it is a rare trait in non-human mammals. An international research team led by senior investigators Marco Gamba from the University of Turin and MPI's Andrea Ravignani set out to look for musical abilities in primates.
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#1310732021-10-22
First-ever Africa-wide great ape assessment reveals human activity, not habitat availability, is greatest driver of ape abundance
The first-ever Africa-wide assessment of great apes – gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees – finds that human factors, including roads, population density and GDP, determine abundance more than ecological factors such as forest cover.
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#1310902021-10-22
Scientists uncover the genetic pathway that colors bumble bee stripes
While most people in the U.S. may think of bumble bees as the standard yellow and black variety, there are an estimated 260 bee species that sport about 400 different color patterns. One reason many people associate bumble bees with distinct colors is because evolution can influence multiple bee ...
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#1310912021-10-22
Fossils of two Early Cretaceous species discovered in southwest Arkansas
Two new species dating back to the Early Cretaceous Period were recently discovered in Sevier County in southwest Arkansas. One is a small skink researchers named Sciroseps pawhuskai and the other is a new fish named Anomoeodus caddoi.
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#1310922021-10-22
Australia's oldest dinosaur was a peaceful vegetarian, not a fierce predator
Ipswich, about 40 kilometers west of Brisbane, seems an unlikely place to find dinosaur fossils. Yet the area has produced the oldest evidence of dinosaurs in Australia.
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#1310932021-10-22
A social species? Newly discovered fossils show early dinosaurs lived in herds
Were dinosaurs unfeeling scaly brutes or caring, well behaved and intelligent? This debate has continued since dinosaurs were first discovered 200 years ago, and has spilled over into the movies and popular consciousness.
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#1310942021-10-22
Subconscious bias drives negative attitudes toward snakes
Snakes rank among Americans' top animal phobias, and are among the most disliked animals globally. A new study from North Carolina State University finds that the dislike of snakes is subconscious and, to some extent, learned.
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#1310952021-10-22
Breakthrough study points to large climate benefits from small fraction of global croplands
Agricultural soils are the largest anthropogenic emission source of nitrous oxide (N2O)—a greenhouse gas 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. Mitigating N2O emissions from agricultural soils is an important requirement to stop global warming below the 2°C target.
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#1310962021-10-22
Extreme rain over California's burn scars causes mudslides: This is what cascading climate disasters look like
Two powerful storm systems known as atmospheric rivers are heading for northern California and Oregon, a region in the midst of an historic drought.
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#1310392021-10-21
Urbanites face heightened flood risk due to forest loss
The devastating impact of flooding in Queensland's north, exacerbated by forest loss, is badly affecting urban areas according to University of Queensland-led research.