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#1304872021-09-20
Scientists uncover pathogen's similar impact on two very different crops
Bacterial blight leads to browning and sometimes the death of important crops. Most famously, late blight of potato resulted in the Great Irish Famine. Blight continues today, affecting crops around the world. One form of bacterial blight (caused by Pseudomonas cannabina pv. alisalensis or Pcal) ...
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#1304882021-09-20
Extreme volcanism did not cause the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous
A study published in the journal Geology rules out that extreme volcanic episodes had any influence on the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous. The results confirm the hypothesis that it was a giant meteorite impact what caused the great biological crisis that ended up with the ...
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#1304892021-09-20
Conservation study: Fostering wanderlust benefits pandas
In the ongoing quest to understand what makes a good wildlife habitat, surprising new research shows there may be too much of a good thing when it comes to pinpointing optimal conditions. Embracing somewhat reduced standards can be good news to conservation managers.
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#1304902021-09-20
Pandemic workaround: Keeping eyes on Pacific water quality from afar
A Griffith University researcher has overcome a key challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to lead a monitoring program in Vanuatu aiming to improve the water quality of a popular lagoon used for fishing and swimming.
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#1304912021-09-20
Male seahorses develop placentas to support their growing babies
Supplying oxygen to their growing offspring and removing carbon dioxide is a major challenge for every pregnant animal. Humans deal with this problem by developing a placenta, but in seahorses—where the male, not the female, gestates and gives birth to the young—exactly how it worked hasn't alwa ...
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#1304922021-09-20
Deer with blood dripping from antlers seen in Smoky Mountains. Why is this happening?
Scary-looking deer with blood and strips of flesh dripping from their antlers have been seen roaming Great Smoky Mountains National Park in recent weeks.
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#1304932021-09-20
Digital data drives better soil management
When we think about limited resources in agriculture, water is normally the first that springs to mind. The bad news is that just like water, soil is a finite resource that is fast deteriorating as a result of human activity. The good news: Research is providing farmers, landowners and policymak ...
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#1304942021-09-20
Leaving by staying: Dispersal decisions of young giraffes
Dispersal, the process where animals reaching sexual maturity move away from family, is important for maintaining genetic diversity and is key to the long-term persistence of natural populations.
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#1304972021-09-20
Preserved penguin poop reveals past Antarctic Ocean circulation changes
Preserved penguin poop may be the key to connecting past Antarctic Ocean conditions and penguin populations, shedding light on how the birds and the region's ecosystem might fare as the climate changes.
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#1304982021-09-20
Quantifying the ecosystem services of glaciers highlights their importance to humankind
As the world's glaciers disappear, one group of scientists is seeking to understand their impact on humans before they are gone. By applying the ecosystem services framework to glaciers, the authors of an August 2021 paper published in Ecosystem Services hope to drive home the important role tha ...
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#1304992021-09-20
After the flood disaster in Western Germany: Science searches for answers
On 14 July 2021, between 60 and 180 mm of rain fell in the Eifel region in just 22 hours—an amount that would otherwise have fallen in several months and which led to catastrophic flooding.
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#1305022021-09-20
Study: Unite solutions to climate and biodiversity crises to save life on earth
Leading experts on the ecological impacts of climate change are calling for urgent action to align the climate and biodiversity agendas to ensure that low cost, low risk, low maintenance opportunities to jointly and efficiently address these two environmental issues are prioritized and implemented.
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#1304422021-09-15
Ancient spider mom preserved in amber found to be protecting her young
A trio of researchers with Capital Normal University in China has found evidence of a mother spider protecting her young in an amber sample dated back to 99 million years ago. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Xiangbo Guo, Paul Selden and Dong Rend describe where th ...
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#1304432021-09-15
A novel fly species discovered in Finland
Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the Zoological Museum of the University of Turku have published in the journal ZooKeys an official description for Scenopinus jerei, a new fly species from Finland.
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#1304442021-09-15
Scientists are hanging rhinos upside-down from helicopters: Here's why
Each year, a selection of apparently weird and pointless scientific experiments receive the Ig Nobel Prize. Awarded by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research, the prize honors projects that "first make people laugh, and then make them think."
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#1304452021-09-15
Copying the small structures of Salvinia leaves
Several plants and animals have evolved surfaces with long-term (i.e., days to months) air-retainability to prevent wetting and submersion. One example is Salvinia, a plant floating on water. The secret "how do they maintain an air-mattress" has been unraveled by researchers.
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#1304462021-09-15
Foraging habits and tactics, diet and activity levels reveal how two octopus species coexist
There are more than 300 species of octopus living in diverse habitats that span coral reefs, seagrass beds, sand plains and polar ice regions where they feed on lower trophic levels. Most famous for having eight arms (octopus comes from the Greek, octópus, which means "eight foot"), the behavior ...
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#1304472021-09-15
Bandicoot species 'back from the brink' on Australian mainland
A small nocturnal marsupial that once roamed the Australian mainland has been brought back from the brink of extinction after a decades-long conservation effort, authorities said Wednesday.
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#1304482021-09-15
Primate mothers may carry infants after death as a way of grieving, study finds
Some primate species may express grief over the death of their infant by carrying the corpse with them, sometimes for months, according to a new UCL-led study—with implications for our understanding of how non-human animals experience emotion.
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#1304492021-09-15
Roads have far-reaching impact on chimpanzees
Roads have a negative impact on chimpanzee populations that can extend for more than 17 km, new research shows. A team led by the University of Exeter examined the impact of major and minor roads on wild western chimpanzee numbers in the eight African countries in which they live.
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#1304502021-09-15
18 of 20 gorillas at Atlanta's zoo have contracted COVID
At least 18 of the 20 gorillas at Atlanta's zoo have now tested positive for COVID-19, an outbreak that began just days before the zoo had hoped to obtain a veterinary vaccine for the primates, officials said Tuesday.
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#1304522021-09-15
New climate migration modelling puts a human face on climate impacts
New climate migration modeling work projects increased numbers of people moving within their countries in the developing world—as many as 216 million internal migrants by 2050. The modeling completes work for the World Bank that was released in 2018 as volume 1 of Groundswell.
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#1304542021-09-15
Centre of Biodiversity Research opens in Leipzig
Today, the Minister-Presidents of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia inaugurated the Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research - iDiv) in Leipzig. The centre began operating in 2020 and since then 300 researchers have started ...
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#1304552021-09-15
Life-sized camel carvings in Northern Arabia date to the Neolithic period
The monumental reliefs at the Camel Site in northern Arabia are unique: three rock spurs are decorated with naturalistic, life-sized carvings of camels and equids. In total, 21 reliefs have been identified.
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#1304572021-09-15
New autonomous method precisely detects endangered whale vocalizations
The North Atlantic Right Whale (Right whale) is one of the most endangered whale species in the world with only about 368 remaining off the east coast of North America.
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#1304582021-09-15
How plants sense phosphate
A new study by the University of Bonn and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben sheds light on the mechanism used by plants to monitor how much of the nutrient phosphate is available, and to decide when strategies to mobilize and take up more phosph ...
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#1304602021-09-15
A warm Indian Ocean drives anomalous weather events in East Asia
An unusually warm winter in 2019/20 in central China and Japan was followed by a summer that saw record-breaking rainfall in the region, triggering severe flooding and landslides.
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#1304612021-09-15
Research initiative to build framework for climate-smart sustainable agricultural soil management
Healthy soil is something most of us take for granted, but it is crucial for life. As one of our most vital resources, we depend upon it for the food we eat, the textiles we wear and the wood we use to build our homes.
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#1304622021-09-15
Are there DBPs in that cup of tea?
Surpassed only by water, tea is the second most consumed beverage worldwide. When boiled tap water is used to brew tea, residual chlorine in the water can react with tea compounds to form disinfection byproducts (DBPs). Now, researchers reporting in Environmental Science & Technology measured 60 ...
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#1303892021-09-14
Increasing prevalence of chronic wasting disease in Kansas deer
Researchers at the University of Missouri have found chronic wasting disease—a fatal illness found in deer that affects their neurological system and causes chronic weight loss—has spread fivefold among Kansas counties, raising concerns about the spread of the disease and the importance of educa ...
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#1303902021-09-14
Which species will be our urban neighbours?
All over the world, people are moving out of rural areas, and cities are growing. What will be the impact on resident species that live in these cities? Which will be our new plant and animal neighbors, which will have to leave town, and what does that mean for us humans?
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#1303912021-09-14
'The pigs can smell man': How decimation of Borneo's rainforests threatens both hunters and hunted
For more than 40,000 years, Indigenous communities in Borneo have hunted and eaten bearded pigs—huge, nomadic animals that roam the island in Southeast Asia. These 100kg creatures are central to the livelihood and culture of some Bornean peoples—in fact, some hunters rarely talk of anything else.
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#1303922021-09-14
Troubled waters: How global marine wildlife protection can undermine fishing communities
New research led by the University of Oxford, published in Conservation Letters, has examined the conflict between small-scale fisheries and marine mammals, using the experience of fisheries on the west coast of South America to highlight a worldwide issue.
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#1303932021-09-14
Video: Why ice core research matters
Inside the New Zealand Ice Core Research Facility, scientists like Dr. Holly Winton from the Te Puna Pātiotio—Antarctic Research Centre at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington analyze ice core samples to understand how and why the climate changed in the past, to better predict our f ...
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#1303962021-09-14
Degradation of biobased plastics in the soil: Microbial community defies climate change
The idea of biodegradable plastics sounds good at first. However, very little is known about how they are degraded in the soil and how this is influenced by climate change. In two recent studies, soil ecologists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have shown which microbial ...
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#1303972021-09-14
How much will our oceans warm and cause sea levels to rise this century?
Knowing how much sea levels are likely to rise during this century is vital to our understanding of future climate change, but previous estimates have generated wide ranges of uncertainty.
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#1304192021-09-14
New ocean temperature data help scientists make their hot predictions
So many climate models, so little time … A new way of measuring ocean temperatures helps scientists sort the likely from unlikely scenarios of global warming.
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#1303742021-09-13
How genetic islands form among marine molluscs
Usually, the individuals of a population of marine species that have the potential to disperse over long distances all share a similar genetic composition. Yet every now and then, at small, localized sites, small groups of genetically different individuals suddenly appear within populations for ...
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#1303752021-09-13
Detecting fish, mammals, and birds from a single water sample
In times of exacerbating biodiversity loss, reliable data on species occurrence are essential, in order for prompt and adequate conservation actions to be initiated. This is especially true for freshwater ecosystems, which are particularly vulnerable and threatened by anthropogenic impacts. Thei ...
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#1303762021-09-13
Scientists use gene editing tool to target mosquito-spread disease
A new gene editing tool has been successfully applied to the southern house mosquito by researchers at the BBSRC-funded Pirbright Institute. This paves the way for genetic control methods that could prevent the mosquito from spreading human and animal diseases.
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#1303772021-09-13
Food systems and the bioeconomy
The COVID-19 pandemic has sharpened our focus on food—whether it be due to concerns relating to supply chain integrity, the viability of rural communities, or a rediscovery of home-cooking during lock-down.
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#1303782021-09-13
Scientists fight to fix the world's soils
On a rural Bangladesh farm, Sonatan holds special blessing ceremonies for a small, cheap tractor that changed his life. It's been a remarkable few years for the former clay-pot maker who always struggled to feed his family.
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#1303792021-09-13
Testing times: Borneo orangutans get COVID swabs
Dozens of critically endangered orangutans in Malaysia have been tested for the coronavirus, with vets in protective suits undertaking the tricky task of giving the apes nasal swabs.
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#1303822021-09-13
Researchers find the dynamics behind the remarkable August 2018 Greenland polynya formation
A polynya is a region of open water that is surrounded by sea ice. These areas fluctuate throughout seasons, and weather events can influence their size and development. Extremely high wind in February 2018 led to a polynya that developed in the Wandel Sea off the coast of Greenland.
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#1303832021-09-13
Study provides basis to evaluate food subsectors' emissions of three greenhouse gases
A new, location-specific agricultural greenhouse gas emission study is the first to account for net carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions from all subsectors related to food production and consumption. T
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#1303852021-09-13
Researchers are toilet-training cows to reduce ammonia emissions caused by their waste
On a farm where cows freely relieve themselves as they graze, the accumulation and spread of waste often contaminates local soil and waterways. This can be controlled by confining the cows in barns, but in these close quarters their urine and feces combine to create ammonia, an indirect greenhou ...
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#1303862021-09-13
Saving these family-focused lizards may mean moving them to new homes, but it's not that simple
Spiny-tailed skinks (Egernia stokesii badia), known as meelyu in the local Badimia language in Western Australia, are highly social lizards that live together in family groups—an uncommon trait among reptiles.
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#1303872021-09-13
Toxic algae reported in Yosemite Valley creek
Toxic algae has been found in a Yosemite creek and the National Park Service is warning guests it may exist in other spots in Yosemite Valley.
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#1303882021-09-13
Rare phenotype in isolated tiger population explains dark wide stripes
A team of researchers affiliated with a large number of institutions in India and the U.S. has found a rare genotype in an isolated tiger population that explains its dark wide stripes. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their genetic ...
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#1303262021-09-09
Prehistoric primates had a sweet tooth
Dental fossils belonging to a species of prehistoric primate, Microsyops latidens, which date to the Early Eocene (around 54 million years ago) display the earliest known evidence of dental caries in mammals, according to a study published in Scientific Reports.