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#1310442021-10-21
Don't underestimate rabbits: These powerful pests threaten more native wildlife than cats or foxes
In inland Australia, rabbits have taken a severe toll on native wildlife since they were introduced in 1859. They may be small, but today rabbits are a key threat to 322 species of Australia's at-risk plants and animals—more than twice the number of species threatened by cats or foxes.
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#1310452021-10-21
Group ceases egg harvesting on one of two northern white rhinos following an ethical risk assessment
While attempting to save the northern white rhinoceros from extinction through advanced assisted reproduction technologies, the scientists and conservationists of the BioRescue consortium place the highest value on respecting the life and welfare of the individual animals involved.
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#1310462021-10-21
Northern white rhino retired from world-first breeding project
Scientists attempting to bring back the near-extinct northern white rhinoceros announced Thursday they would stop harvesting eggs from one of two remaining live specimens involved in an unprecedented breeding programme.
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#1310472021-10-21
Scientists uncover a gene involved in sexual conflict in fruit flies
Sexual conflict in fruit flies is governed by specifically wired neurons in the brain which have been pinpointed by scientists at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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#1310482021-10-21
African grey parrots may have better self-control than macaws
African grey parrots may be better able than macaws to delay gratification—rejecting an immediate reward in favor of a better one in the future—according to a study published in the journal Animal Cognition.
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#1310492021-10-21
Fusarium wilt of cotton more aggressive and diverse than previously understood
Cotton is an important crop worldwide and grown in large amounts in the United States, which provided 38 percent of cotton exports in 2017. One of the greatest threats to cotton production is Fusarium wilt, a fungal disease caused by the soil-borne pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum ...
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#1310512021-10-21
The term 'Anthropocene' isn't perfect, but it shows us the scale of the environmental crisis we've caused
Earlier this year, scientists identified early warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, an ocean current that influences the climate of the North American east coast and much of western Europe.
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#1310532021-10-21
Manure makes drinking water? An unlikely solution to a global crisis
Inspiration struck Yi Zheng on a summer visit to a local dairy farm. There were cows and horses and, Zheng noticed, that meant that there was manure everywhere.
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#1310542021-10-21
'Big John', largest-ever triceratops, goes under hammer
"Big John", 66 million years old and the largest triceratops skeleton ever unearthed at eight metres long, goes up for auction in Paris on Thursday.
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#1309792021-10-20
Over 170 cereal farmers trained on genetically-modified cowpea variety
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)/ Savannah Agriculture Research Institute (SARI) Scientists have trained over 170 small-scale cereal farmers in the Atebubu-Amanten Municipality to use a genetically-modified cowpea variety resistant to the Maruca vitrata insect.
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#1309502021-10-19
Nature doesn't recognise borders but countries can collaborate to save species—the Escazú Agreement shows how
Nature rarely recognizes national borders. Many Australian birds, for example, are annual visitors, splitting their time between Southeast Asia, Russia, and Pacific Islands.
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#1309532021-10-19
Using laser-stimulated fluorescence to learn more about how pterosaurs flew
A small international team of researchers has used laser-stimulated fluorescence to learn more about how pterosaurs flew. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study of the ancient flying reptiles aimed at learning more about their ...
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#1309542021-10-19
Road impacts on ecosystems in sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is developing rapidly. With growing economies and increased trade, major road infrastructure plans have been developed for the region, which also hosts some of the world's most unique and diverse ecosystems. New research looked into how roads might impact ecosystems in the region.
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#1309552021-10-19
Monsters of the deep revealed for what they are
Grotesque little creatures with armor-like horns, misshapen torsos and some with spikes protruding from their sides are lurking in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. They appear in an array of oranges and blues, though several are see-through. Some appear part alien and part Hunchback of Notre Da ...
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#1309592021-10-19
Five facts to help you understand sea ice
One way that scientists monitor climate change is through the measure of sea ice extent. Sea ice extent is the area of ice that covers the Arctic Ocean at a given time. Sea ice plays an important role in reflecting sunlight back into space, regulating ocean and air temperature, circulating ocean ...
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#1309622021-10-19
Birth of undersea volcano off the east coast of Africa recorded in great detail
A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in France has recorded the details and characteristics of an undersea volcano that was born in 2018. In their paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the group describes the volcano as the largest undersea eruption ever recorded.
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#1309642021-10-19
World’s longest coral survey: century of change at Aua reef
Historical photographs are increasingly used by conservation scientists to assess how places have changed over time, and the degree of human and environmental impact. Such is the case with black and white pahotographs taken in 1917 of the lush reefs, shore and villages surrounding Pago Pago Harb ...
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#1307202021-10-13
Technologies for SDGs and biodiversity protection
Speaking during the show, Dirk Fransaer, managing director at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research, cautioned that the world is on the right track to reaching the goals, but not at the right speed. "Worldwide, you see that multinational companies really take SDGs too hard. So from th ...
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#1307262021-10-13
Research shows how plastics threaten marine biodiversity...
New research at Queen's University highlights the impact that microplastics are having on hermit crabs, which play an important role in balancing the marine ecosystem.
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#1307432021-10-13
Geologically vibrant continents produce higher biodiversity
Leipzig, Zurich. Using a new mechanistic model of evolution on Earth, researchers at German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and ETH Zurich can now better explain why the rainforests of Africa are home to fewer species than the tropical forests of South America and Southeast Asia.
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#1307492021-10-13
Freezing fruit flies for future function
The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has long been an important experimental model for biological research. While you may be eager to rid your kitchen of this unwanted pest, researchers in Japan have developed a new technique to keep Drosophila in the laboratory even longer.
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#1307502021-10-13
Fewer frogs died by vehicles in the outset of the pandemic
Fewer frogs died from vehicle collisions in spring 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began, than during the season in other recent years, according to a new study led by a University of Maine graduate student and community science project coordinator.
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#1307522021-10-13
Focal point for climate change is at the top of our world, and agenda
Improved climate modeling can predict fish stocks in the North Atlantic, as well as warming effects across the Northern hemisphere, for instance in Europe and North America.
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#1307582021-10-13
Should we cull noisy miners? Research shows these aggressive honeyeaters are still outsmarting us
Noisy miners are familiar to many of us on Australia's east coast as plucky gray birds relentlessly harassing other birds, dive-bombing dogs and people—even expertly opening sugar packets at your local café.
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#1306922021-10-12
Monitor lizards in Borneo found to prefer forests next to oil palm plantations
A team of researchers from Cardiff University working with staff at the Danau Girang Field Centre in Sabah, Malaysia, has found that monitor lizards living in the Malaysian part of Borneo prefer to reside in the natural forests that abut oil plantations, rather than in the plantations themselves ...
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#1306932021-10-12
Dense bison herds may threaten nesting bird species
Overhunting depleted the population of American bison from tens of millions to fewer than 1,000 in the span of just the 19th century. With conservationists and ranchers recently reintroducing the species to U.S. grasslands, though, the American bison now numbers in the hundreds of thousands.
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#1306942021-10-12
Study explores adaptation in island, mainland anoles
Islands are hot spots of evolutionary adaptation that can also advantage species returning to the mainland, according to a study published the week of Oct. 11 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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#1306952021-10-12
Insects in the light of land use and climate
Worldwide, scientists have reported mounting evidence that the quantity and diversity of insects are declining; in politics and society, these findings have raised great concern.
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#1306982021-10-12
When global warming stops, seas will still rise: study
Even if humanity beats the odds and caps global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, seas will rise for centuries to come and swamp cities currently home to half-a-billion people, researchers warned Tuesday.
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#1306992021-10-12
Seasonal variability in lakes' environmental processes reveal susceptibility to climate change
A new study has shown how climate change could impact the ecosystems of the planet's largest lakes by revealing varying levels at which their water layers are mixed together through the seasons. As the climates warm, changes to the this process in the winter months could affect oxygen levels and ...
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#1307002021-10-12
Carbon dissolved in Arctic rivers affects our world—here's how to study it
In a pair of recently published papers, Michael Rawlins, a professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's geosciences department and associate director of the Climate System Research Center, has made significant gains in filling out our understanding of the Arctic's carbon cycle—or the w ...
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#1305932021-09-30
Compelling evidence of the connection between AMR surgical-site infections and arthropods
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the resistance of micro-organisms to antibiotics, antivirals or antifungals, is a huge global problem. Left unchecked, AMR threatens to become one of the world's biggest health problems, surpassing diabetes and cancer. As more bugs become drug resistant we will lo ...
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#1305942021-09-30
A microscopic worm may shed light on how we perceive gravity
While humans rely on gravity for balance and orientation, the mechanisms by which we actually sense this fundamental force are largely unknown. Odder still, the model organism C. elegans, a microscopic worm, can also sense the direction of gravity, even though there is no known ecological reason ...
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#1305952021-09-30
Whale migration in our noisy oceans
The long-distance migrations performed by groups of animals offer some of the most spectacular natural phenomena on our planet.
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#1305972021-09-30
New fish species discovered after years of scientific studies
Scientists identify and name new fish species around the globe practically every week. Some turn up in unlikely places, and others display unusual characteristics and behaviors. But it's rare for an unidentified and unnamed fish to have played an important role in scientific research for several ...
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#1305992021-09-30
How does positive cloud-to-ground lightning strike so far away from its origin?
A bolt of cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning forms if a lightning leader develops out of the cloud and reaches the ground. Positive CG (+CG) lightning is formed by a downward positive leader and transfers positive charge into the ground.
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#1306002021-09-30
Critical groundwater supplies may never recover from drought
Along with hurricanes and wildfires, there's another important, but seldom-discussed effect of climate change—toxic water and sinking land made worse by groundwater drought.
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#1305542021-09-23
Bat guts become less healthy through diet of 'fast food' from banana plantations
Nectar-feeding bats foraging in intensively managed banana plantations in Costa Rica have a less diverse set of gut microbes in comparison to bats feeding in their natural forest habitat or organic plantations, reveals new research published today in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
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#1305552021-09-23
Lake Maracaibo, lightning capital of the world
One firebolt after another illuminates a stilt-house settlement where the Catatumbo river flows into Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo, the lightning capital of the world.
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#1305602021-09-23
The secret life of baby octopuses
Some of the most amazing creatures live in the deep blue sea. Cuttlefish, squids and octopuses, for example. These soft-bodied cephalopods have a strikingly sophisticated nervous system, camera-like eyes, three hearts, and an extraordinary ability to switch the color and texture of their skin to ...
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#1305612021-09-23
Female skinks store sperm for dry spells
Female tree skinks can reproduce even when they have not encountered a male for more than a year, by storing sperm from previous mates, according to new research.
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#1305622021-09-23
Non-native fish are main consumers of salmon in reservoirs
When warmwater fish species like bass, walleye and crappie that are not native to the Pacific Northwest, but prized by some anglers, overlap with baby spring chinook salmon in reservoirs in Oregon's Willamette River they consume more baby salmon than native fish per individual, new research found.
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#1305632021-09-23
Creating chicory plants without bitter compounds
Researchers have used new breeding techniques to develop a chicory variety that no longer contains bitter compounds. Katarina Cankar, plant researcher at Wageningen University & Research: "In the European CHIC project, we are working on improved industrial chicory varieties (related to witloof) ...
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#1305642021-09-23
Low-level helicopter flights map mineral deposits near Salmon, Idaho
The result of a geophysical survey in a remote part of eastern Idaho could have economic impacts on the Gem State by identifying locations to extract cobalt and other minerals.
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#1305652021-09-23
How fish can still be part of a more sustainable food future
If you want to reduce your personal impact on the environment, cutting back on eating animal products is one of the simplest things you can do. But becoming vegan and eating only plants is unlikely to be an appropriate solution for everyone in the world.
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#1305102021-09-22
Soft corals, hard problem: New technique reveals corals vulnerable to bleaching
UNSW marine biologists have developed a method for identifying Australia's soft corals that are most vulnerable—and most resistant—to rising sea temperatures and episodes of coral bleaching, and therefore, which species are in most urgent need of protection.
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#1305192021-09-22
Revealing hidden extinction risk in Madagascar's rare plant species
For many species, there is a lack of information needed to make extinction risk assessments—a problem that is particularly acute in biodiverse regions such as Madagascar. Scientists also fear that current methods of assessing extinction risk may underestimate the problem.
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#1305212021-09-22
Study: Expanding teleworking would reduce pollution by up to 10%
A study by the ICTA-UAB analyzes different proposals for the implementation of telework based on mobility and air quality data obtained in Barcelona during the lockdown.
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#1305222021-09-22
Infants have more microplastics in their feces than adults, study finds
Microplastics—tiny plastic pieces less than 5 mm in size—are everywhere, from indoor dust to food to bottled water. So it's not surprising that scientists have detected these particles in the feces of people and pets.
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#1305282021-09-22
Melting of polar ice shifting Earth itself, not just sea levels
The melting of polar ice is not only shifting the levels of our oceans, it is changing the planet Earth itself. Newly minted Ph.D. Sophie Coulson and her colleagues explained in a recent paper in Geophysical Research Letters that, as glacial ice from Greenland, Antarctica, and the Arctic Islands ...