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#1354222022-07-21
Plant buddies now at odds over declining pollinators
Competition for pollinating insects may reduce the ability of plant species to coexist, according to a paper published in Nature. This effect, which may impact plant diversity, is expected to be heightened as the number of pollinators decreases.
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#1354232022-07-21
Not only are bird species going extinct, but they might also lose the features that make each species unique
Climate change is causing a mass extinction the likes of which has not been seen in recorded history. For birds, this biodiversity loss has implications beyond just species loss. In research publishing in the journal Current Biology on July 21, researchers use statistical modeling to predict tha ...
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#1354242022-07-21
Meet Qikiqtania, a fossil fish with the good sense to stay in the water while others ventured onto land
Approximately 365 million years ago, one group of fishes left the water to live on land. These animals were early tetrapods, a lineage that would radiate to include many thousands of species including amphibians, birds, lizards and mammals. Human beings are descendants of those early tetrapods, ...
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#1354252022-07-21
How forest structure drives productivity
Forests make large contributions to Earth's climate, from releasing water vapor to pulling in carbon dioxide from the air, which mitigates global warming. The arrangement of trees affects how forests use light and water for photosynthesis, and it is known that more complex forests have higher pr ...
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#1354262022-07-21
Most countries 'woefully unprepared' for changing climate: analysis
Major economies such as India, Brazil and Russia face "cascading" crises driven by climate change such as food insecurity, energy shortages and civil unrest, an industry analysis warned Thursday.
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#1354272022-07-21
Mangrove forest found living in freshwater
An international team of researchers has found a mangrove forest living in a freshwater part of the Amazonian delta. In their paper published in the journal Current Biology, the group describes their study of the Amazonian delta and explain why their find is so important.
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#1354282022-07-21
Most ecology research is 'wasted': Researchers call for urgent action
Climate change, pollution, and the lack of pollinators are just a few of the many challenges we face, both locally and globally. Ecology plays a key role in addressing these challenges.
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#1354292022-07-21
Beloved monarch butterflies now listed as endangered
The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endangered list because of its fast dwindling numbers.
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#1354302022-07-21
Wild tiger numbers higher than previously thought
There are 40 percent more tigers in the wild than previously thought, but with a maximum of 5,578 on the prowl, they remain an endangered species, conservationists said Thursday.
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#1354312022-07-21
Harnessing the microbiome to prevent global biodiversity loss
Global biodiversity loss and mass extinction of species are two of the most critical environmental issues the world is currently facing, resulting in the disruption of various ecosystems central to environmental functions and human health.
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#1354322022-07-21
The role of women in biodiversity conservation
Environmental experts have underscored the need to fully explore and utilise women’s potential in contributing to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
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#1353652022-07-20
Inside this sneaker startup’s efforts to bring biodiversity back to Brazil
A few fashion brands have recently hired chief science officers who are tasked with developing cutting-edge new materials. Sneaker startup Cariuma has one devoted to the rain forest.
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#1353662022-07-20
Africa Protected Areas Congress puts spotlight on protection and conservation of biodiversity
The first-ever Africa Protected Areas Congress has convened in in Kigali, Rwanda to discuss the role of protected areas in conserving nature.
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#1353672022-07-20
This Supplier Engagement Program Promotes Pollinators and Biodiversity
The urgency of environmental challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss is mounting. Scientists are sounding the alarm of a sixth mass extinction, with 30 to 50 percent of all species on Earth expected to be lost by the middle of this century. And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
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#1353682022-07-20
Indigenous Communities Protect 80% Of All Biodiversity
Despite the fact indigenous peoples make up around 15 percent of the world’s extreme poor and just five percent of the global population, they are protecting 80 percent of the world’s remaining biodiversity, according to data cited in Australia’s newly released 2021 State of the Environment report.
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#1353692022-07-20
Biden's new steps on climate to fall short of 'emergency' designation
U.S. President Joe Biden will unveil new executive steps to address climate in a visit to Massachusetts on Wednesday that are expected to fall short of declaring the federal emergency many Democrats had urged.
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#1353702022-07-20
How Climate Change Might Impact Disease Outbreak in Antarctic Fish
Scientists investigate a particular kind of fish that has evolved to survive in the severe arctic climate. However, on a field trip in 2018, they discovered an unusual phenomenon: several of the fish had terrible skin tumors.
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#1353712022-07-20
Polar bears scavenge on garbage to cope with climate change
Hungry polar bears are turning to garbage dumps to fill their stomachs as their icy habitat disappears. On Wednesday, a team of Canadian and U.S. scientists warned that trash poses an emerging threat to already-vulnerable polar bear populations as the animals become more reliant on landfills nea ...
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#1353722022-07-20
How not to solve the climate change problem
When politicians talk about reaching “net zero” emissions, they’re often counting on trees or technology that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air. What they don’t mention is just how much these proposals or geoengineering would cost to allow the world to continue burning fossil fuels
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#1353732022-07-20
Old cars forced off road as Europe’s clean air zones nearly double
The number of clean air zones across Europe has risen 40% since 2019, forcing older and more polluting vehicles off the road, according to new research based on EU data.
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#1353742022-07-20
‘The scale is hard to grasp’: avian flu wreaks devastation on seabirds
Dozens of coastal sites in the UK closed to the public as H5N1 continues to sweep through wild bird populations across the world. Aquarter of Europe’s breeding seabirds spend spring in the UK, turning our coastline into a giant maternity unit. These noisy outcrops usually stink of bird poo. Howe ...
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#1353752022-07-20
Indonesian islanders sue cement producer for climate damages
Residents of an Indonesian island threatened by rising sea levels have begun legal action against the cement producer Holcim. The claim for compensation, filed in Switzerland by three men and one woman, is understood to be the first major climate damages lawsuit against a cement company.
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#1353762022-07-20
Peru’s safe haven for threatened species – in pictures
Endemic frogs of captivating beauty, mammals and wild birds are among the species to be found in Peru’s Cordillera Escalera conservation area, a protected highly biodiverse area between the Andes and the jungle in the east of the country
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#1353772022-07-20
Offshore fish farms: a new wave of food production … or the ‘wild west’ of ocean pollution?
The enclosures stretch the length of an Olympic-size swimming pool, but from above they appear as floating dots scattered across the ocean. Inside, fish mill about as the submerged pens sway to the currents of the open sea.
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#1353792022-07-20
Australian environmental report finally recognizes Indigenous knowledge
In Australia, more than 100 animal species have gone extinct or been placed on endangered lists, ecosystems are plagued by invasive species, temperatures and sea levels rise, marine heatwaves have caused coral bleaching, while devastating floods and wildfires have ravaged the country.
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#1353802022-07-20
‘Traditional knowledge should be integrated with scientific research’
In 1961, the foundation stone of the Navagam dam (now known as the Sardar Sarovar Project) was near the Narmada river in Gujarat, and the government began acquiring land, which belonged to the adivasi communities who had lived there for generations.
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#1353822022-07-20
Leaf litter of lianas decomposes faster than trees in tropical forest
Lianas account for a small fraction of forest biomass, but contribute significantly to the dynamics of tropical and subtropical forests. However, our understanding of their contribution to food webs and biochemical cycling remains limited.
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#1353832022-07-20
How Forest Structure Drives Productivity
Forests make large contributions to Earth’s climate, from releasing water vapor to pulling in carbon dioxide from the air, which mitigates global warming. The arrangement of trees affects how forests use light and water for photosynthesis, and it is known that more complex forests have higher pr ...
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#1353842022-07-20
Namibia loses nearly 20 percent of forest in last 30 years
Namibia has lost nearly 20 percent of its forest area during the past 30 years as a result of unsustainable use of resources, a government official said Wednesday.
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#1353852022-07-20
‘In 10 years, we might not have forests’: DRC struggles to halt charcoal trade – a photo essay
Every few seconds a handful of reddish clay is scraped out of a bucket, rolled briskly into a ball, coated in charcoal dust and left in the sun to dry. For the past three years, Nzigire Ntavuna, 39, has been making these balls on the outskirts of Kahuzi-Biega national park, in the rainforest in ...
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#1353862022-07-20
The Mystery of Milky Seas Is Finally Being Solved
On January 30, 1864, the Confederate warship CSS Alabama entered what its captain described as a “remarkable patch of the sea.”
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#1353872022-07-20
How the Ocean Sustains Complex Life
Search “ocean zones” online, and you will see hundreds of illustrations that depict the same vertical profile of the sea. The thin, top layer is the “sunlight” or epipelagic zone, which receives enough light for photosynthesis by phytoplankton, algae and some bacteria.
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#1353882022-07-20
Heatwave: Why extreme weather forecasts have improved so much
The U.K. has recorded its hottest ever temperature, passing 40℃ for the first time. But you can't deny it had fair warning. The Met Office issued an amber weather warning six days before the heatwave and upgraded it to red three days later, enough time to trade cooling-down tips with friends and ...
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#1353892022-07-20
How climate storytelling helps people navigate complexity and find solutions
Despite learning that climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists predicted, society has been slow to decrease the use of fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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#1353902022-07-20
The UK just hit 40℃ for the first time. It's a stark reminder of the deadly heat awaiting Australia
A severe heatwave in Western Europe is shattering temperature records—including in the United Kingdom, where temperatures exceeded 40℃ on Tuesday for the first time on record.
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#1353912022-07-20
New fossil shows four-legged fishapod that returned to the water while Tiktaalik ventured onto land
A meme has been circulating online during the pandemic featuring Tiktaalik roseae, the iconic, four-legged "fishapod" that first made the transition from water to land 375 million years ago.
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#1353922022-07-20
Mammals were not the first to be warm-blooded
Endothermy, or warm-bloodedness, is the ability of mammals and birds to produce their own body heat and control their body temperature.
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#1353932022-07-20
Wasps able to tell the difference between 'same' and 'different'
A trio of researchers at the University of Michigan has found that paper wasps are able to distinguish between things that are the same or things that are different. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Chloe Weise, Christian Cely Ortiz and Elizabeth Tibbetts describe ...
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#1353942022-07-20
Scientists identify DNA 'hotspots' that tell zebrafish to change sex in warmer waters
Higher water temperatures induce specific chemical tags at targeted locations on the DNA of embryonic zebrafish. These "epigenetic" changes can then reroute genetic pathways, so that the embryos change sex.
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#1353952022-07-20
Human food waste 'threat' to polar bears: report
The invasion of a remote Russian village by dozens of ravenous polar bears three years ago captured headlines around the world, with images of groups of animals gorging on rubbish in an open garbage dump.
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#1353962022-07-20
Sun, sea, sustainability—could your next European holiday be a greener one?
With the tourism industry on a high bounce following the lifting of pandemic restrictions, many holiday-goers are looking for ways to travel more responsibly and sustainably. But the annual surge of visitors at resorts and destinations can create environmental headaches for people living in the ...
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#1353972022-07-20
Scientists discover world's longest underwater avalanche after rescue of lost data
Prompt action by scientists recovered sensors drifting across the Atlantic Ocean that held data on a seabed sediment avalanche that traveled for 1,100 km to ocean depths of 4,500 km.
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#1353982022-07-20
Heatwave Britain hits 40.3°C: How scientists know when a temperature record has been broken
The U.K. has experienced its hottest day on record, as provisional data showed the temperature soared to 40.3°C at Coningsby in Lincolnshire. This surpassed the previous record of 38.7°C set in Cambridge just three years previously.
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#1353992022-07-20
Mapping urban heat from the ground up
Just one year ago, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory assembled a unique mobile observatory for surveying the climate in urban environments.
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#1354002022-07-20
Human garbage is a plentiful but dangerous source of food for polar bears
More than 50 hungry polar bears invaded the Russian coastal village of Belushya Guba over a period of three months, attracted by the local dump. Some bears entered homes and businesses by ripping doors off hinges and climbing through windows.
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#1354012022-07-20
More than half of rare species need intensive, hands-on help to ward off extinction
International talks to stem the extinction crisis have focused chiefly on how much habitat to protect. But for many of the most endangered animals, survival is going to take more than breathing room.
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#1354022022-07-20
Marine ranching helps restore biodiversity in south China island
When Wang Aimin, then a professor of oceanic science at Hainan University, started helping with marine ranching by dropping artificial reefs into seawater in 2011, he was ridiculed by local divers.
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#1353312022-07-15
Thousands evacuated as heat causes wildfires in Europe and north Africa
Thousands of people in Portugal, Spain, France and Morocco have been evacuated from their homes as firefighters tackle wildfires caused by this week’s heatwave, which has brought extreme temperatures of more than 45C (113F) to parts of Europe and north Africa.
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#1353322022-07-15
Big Butterfly Count in UK begins with eyes on declining numbers
The apparent alarming absence of butterflies feeding on buddleia flowers this summer will be tested by the launch of the world’s largest insect survey.
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#1353332022-07-15
The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including killer whales hunting a seal off Shetland and endangered mountain bongos in Kenya