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#1206882019-04-09
New fossil evidence claims first discovery of taro in Maori gardens
The first discovery of Polynesian taro grown in Māori gardens in the 1400s can be claimed by an archaeological research project on Ahuahu-Great Mercury Island.
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#1206892019-04-09
Forget smart cities (for a minute), we need to talk about smart farms
There's a lot of talk about digital technology and smart cities, but what about smart farms? Many of us still have a romantic view of farmers surveying rolling hills and farm kids cuddling calves, but our food in Canada increasingly comes from industrial-scale factory farms and vast glass and st ...
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#1206902019-04-09
Lake Erie's toxic algae blooms: Why is the water turning green?
Since the late 1990s, Lake Erie has been plagued with blooms of toxic algae that turn its waters a bright blue-green. These harmful algae blooms are made up of cyanobacteria that produce the liver toxin microcystin.
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#1206932019-04-09
New research about biodiversity reveals the importance of climate on today's abundance of life
BIODIVERSITY Natural history museum paleontologists in Copenhagen and Helsinki have succeeded in mapping historical biodiversity in unprecedented detail. For the first time, it is now possible to compare the impact of climate on global biodiversity in the distant past - a result that paints a gl ...
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#1207002019-04-09
Plant diversity increases insect diversity
The more plant species that grow in grasslands and forests, the more insect species that find a habitat there. However, the presence of more plant species not only increases the number of insect species, but also the number of insect individuals. Simultaneously, animal diversity is not only dete ...
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#1207062019-04-09
New research about biodiversity reveals the importance of climate on today's abundance of life
Biodiversity Natural history museum paleontologists in Copenhagen and Helsinki have succeeded in mapping historical biodiversity in unprecedented detail. For the first time, it is possible to compare the impact of climate on global biodiversity in the distant past—a result that paints a gloomy p ...
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#1207072019-04-09
Scant amounts of DNA reveal conservation clues
The key to solving a mystery is finding the right clues. Wildlife detectives aiming to protect endangered species have long been hobbled by the near impossibility of collecting DNA samples from rare and elusive animals.
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#1207122019-04-10
Robots to the rescue of the Great Barrier Reef
Scientists use undersea robots and 3-D printing to help coral reefs survive the damaging effects of rising ocean temperatures.They're the rainforests of the ocean, but coral reefs around the world have suffered massive bleaching events over the past decades due to climate change and pollution.
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#1207142019-04-10
Study shows green roofs could reduce indoor air pollution
Green roofs – roofs that are planted with vegetation—may improve the indoor air quality of commercial buildings by cutting the amount of ozone coming into the buildings from the outside, according to new research from Portland State University.
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#1207152019-04-10
Dolphins who help fishermen found to also hang out together between meals
A team of researchers with members from Brazil, South Africa and the U.S. has found an example of homophily among dolphins who work together with fishermen in Brazil for the mutual benefit of both. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes their study of the do ...
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#1207162019-04-10
How severe drought influences ozone pollution
From 2011 to 2015, California experienced its worst drought on record, with a parching combination of high temperatures and low precipitation. Drought conditions can have complicated effects on ozone air quality, so to better understand the process, researchers have analyzed data from two ozone- ...
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#1207172019-04-10
Research reveals evidence of climate change in the Yukon permafrost
A new University of Toronto study confirms that recent climate warming in the central Yukon region has surpassed the warmest temperatures experienced in the previous 13,600 years, a finding that could have important implications in the context of current global warming trends.
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#1207272019-04-11
The Ice Nurseries of the Arctic Are Melting
Ice formed in coastal nurseries along Russia’s Arctic coast is melting before it can float far offshore. Scientists are worried about what that means for wildlife.
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#1207352019-04-11
U.S. forests changes are double-edged sword for environment
Climate change, nitrogen deposition and fire suppression are leading to shifts in the types of trees that dominate American forests. These changes will have environmental consequences, potentially positive and negative, according to a Purdue University study.
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#1207452019-04-12
Predicting heat waves? Look half a world away
When heavy rain falls over the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia and the eastern Pacific Ocean, it is a good indicator that temperatures in central California will reach 100°F in four to 16 days, according to a collaborative research team from the University of California, Davis, and the Asia-Paci ...
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#1207522019-04-12
Ancient lakes: Eyes into the past, and the future
Baikal, Biwa and Bosuntwi. Maracaibo, Malawi and Matano. Tule, Tahoe and Titicaca.Ancient lakes, they're called: waterbodies more than 130,000 years old. Over their long histories, they've seen countless changes—warming and cooling cycles, wet and dry periods, altered biology and chemistry.
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#1207542019-04-12
Interplay of pollinators and pests influences plant evolution
Brassica rapa plants pollinated by bumblebees evolve more attractive flowers. But this evolution is compromised if caterpillars attack the plant at the same time. As bees pollinate them less effectively, the plants increasingly self-pollinate. In a greenhouse evolution experiment, scientists at ...
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#1207562019-04-12
Knowing how cells grow and divide can lead to more robust and productive plants
A large portion of a plant is hidden below the ground. This buried root system is essential for the plant: it provides stability, water, and food. In contrast to mammals, where the body plan is final at birth, the formation of new root branches ensures that the root system keeps growing througho ...
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#1207572019-04-12
Bacteria surrounding coral reefs change in synchrony, even across great distance
In coral reef ecosystems, amid stony corals, fronds of algae and schools of fish, microorganisms are essential for recycling nutrients—transforming bits of organic matter into forms of nitrogen and phosphorus, for example, that are useful to photosynthetic organisms.
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#1207722019-04-15
Algorithms to enhance forest inventories
An EPFL doctoral student has come up with methods to map out forests more effectively using aerial remote sensing, in support of on-the-ground forest inventories.
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#1208032019-04-17
Researchers explore machine learning to automate sorting of microcapsules in real-time
Micro-encapsulated CO2 sorbents (MECS)—tiny, reusable capsules full of a sodium carbonate solution that can absorb carbon dioxide from the air—are a promising technology for capturing carbon from the atmosphere.
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#1208042019-04-17
For its health and yours, keep the cat indoors
At least one running argument among cat lovers is now over: Whiskers, Lucy and Tigger are definitely better off staying indoors, scientists reported Wednesday.
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#1208052019-04-17
What Earth's gravity reveals about climate change
On March 17, 2002, the German-U.S. satellite duo GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) was launched to map the global gravitational field with unprecedented precision. The mission lasted 15 years, more than three times as long as expected. When the two satellites burned up in the Earth ...
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#1208062019-04-17
What's happened to all the plastic rubbish in the Indian Ocean?
Researchers at The University of Western Australia have found that although the Indian Ocean is the world's biggest dumping ground for plastic waste, nobody seems to know where it goes.
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#5850Earth Day 2019
22 April 2019, New York, United States of America
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#5882Seventh session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services stakeholder day (IPBES-7)
29 April - 4 May 2019, Paris, France
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#5853World Environment Day 2019
5 June 2019, Nairobi, Kenya
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#58748th International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Conference 2019
17 - 20 June 2019, Trondhein, Norway
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#5909Society for Conservation Biology: 29th International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB 2019)
21 - 25 July 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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#1217352019-07-30
Introduced species dilute the effects of evolution on diversity
Understanding how biodiversity is shaped by multiple forces is crucial to protect rare species and unique ecosystems.
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#1217422019-07-30
African smoke is fertilizing Amazon rainforest and oceans
A new study led by researchers at the University of Miami's (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science found that smoke from fires in Africa may be the most important source of a key nutrient -- phosphorus -- that acts as a fertilizer in the Amazon rainforest, Tropical Atlantic and ...
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#1219122019-08-15
Research bias may leave some primates at risk
Recent primate research has had a heavy focus on a few charismatic species and nationally protected parks and forests, leaving some lesser known primates and their habitats at risk, according researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Santa Clara University.
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#1221632019-09-10
Seventh Mass Extinction?
Scientists believe that the Earth is currently going through its sixth mass extinction event. However, there may have been another such incident in our planet's past that researchers had overlooked until now, according to a study published in the journal Historical Biology.
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#1221662019-09-10
Wild mountain gorillas found to play in water like humans
A team of researchers from Kyoto University, Primate Cognition Research Group and Conservation through Public Health, has found that wild mountain gorillas living in Uganda play very much like humans when having fun in the water. In their paper published in the journal Primates, the group descri ...
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#1221672019-09-10
To save honey bees we need to design them new hives
Honey bees are under extreme pressure. The number of honey bee colonies in the US has been declining at an average rate of almost 40% since 2010. The biggest contributor to this decline is viruses spread by a parasite, Varroa Destructor. But this isn't a natural situation. The parasite is spread ...
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#1221752019-09-11
Every time the small cabbage white butterfly flaps its wings it has us to thank
The caterpillar form of an unassuming, small, white butterfly is among the world's most invasive pests affecting agricultural crops, and a newly published paper by a consortium of scientists documents how humans have helped it spread for thousands of years.
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#1221782019-09-11
Swapping pollinators reduces species diversity, study finds
University of Kansas plant biologists Carolyn Wessinger and Lena Hileman appreciate the sheer beauty of a field of colorful wildflowers as much as the next person. But what really gets their adrenaline pumping is understanding the evolutionary forces that render Earth's blooms in such a stunning ...
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#1221792019-09-11
Study shows bee brains process positive and negative experiences differently
A team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has found that when bees experience positive versus negative events, their brains process and remember the events differently. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes their study o ...
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#1221812019-09-11
Transgenic mosquitoes pass on genes to native species
Transgenic mosquitoes released in Brazil in an effort to reduce the population of disease-bearing insects have successfully bred and passed on genes to the native mosquito population, a new Yale research study published Sept. 10 in the journal Scientific Reports has found.
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#1221942019-09-12
Madagascar's unique dugongs in danger
Scientists have used historic DNA to discover some of the highest-risk populations of the endangered dugong are so genetically distinct, losing them would be the equivalent of losing a species of elephant.
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#1221962019-09-12
There's no place like home: Butterflies stick to their burbs
Birthplace exerts a lifelong influence on butterflies as well as humans, new research reveals.n a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Macquarie University ARC Future Fellow Associate Professor Darrell Kemp reveals that the American passionfruit ...
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#1221972019-09-12
Researchers work to understand bacteria killing citrus trees
A team of biologists has put on their detective hats to investigate the complicated bacterium behind citrus greening, a problematic plant disease that has felled citrus orchards across Florida and threatened the Sunshine State's once prosperous orange crop production.
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#1222012019-09-12
Gloomy forecast for the Aletsch Glacier
The largest glacier in the Alps is visibly suffering the effects of global warming. ETH researchers have now calculated how much of the Aletsch Glacier will still be visible by the end of the century. In the worst-case scenario, a couple of patches of ice will be all that remains.
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#1222082019-09-13
Digital records of preserved plants and animals change how scientists explore the world
There’s a whole world behind the scenes at natural history museums that most people never see. Museum collections house millions upon millions of dinosaur bones, pickled sharks, dried leaves, and every other part of the natural world you can think of–more than could ever be put on display.
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#1222262019-09-13
Breeding single-sex animal populations could help prevent disease and poverty
The creation of all-male or all-female groups of animals, known as monosex populations, has become a potentially useful approach in aquaculture and livestock rearing.
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#1222412019-09-16
A combination of wood fibres and spider silk could rival plastic
Achieving strength and extensibility at the same time has so far been a great challenge in material engineering: increasing strength has meant losing extensibility and vice versa. Now Aalto University and VTT researchers have succeeded in overcoming this challenge, with inspiration from nature.
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#1222422019-09-16
'Climigration': When communities must move because of climate change
Climate change increasingly threatens communities all over the world. News of fires, floods and coastal erosion devastating lives and livelihoods seems almost constant. The latest fires in Queensland and New South Wales mark the start of the earliest bushfire season the states have ever seen.
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#1222452019-09-16
Peatlands trap carbon dioxide, even during droughts
Although peatlands make up only 3 percent of the Earth's surface, they store one third of the soil carbon trapped in soils globally. Preserving peatlands is therefore of paramount importance for mitigating climate change, provided that these vulnerable environments are not themselves threatened ...
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#1222772019-09-19
Ancient asteroid collision boosts biodiversity on Earth: study
An international team of scientists found that a collision in the asteroid belt 470 million years ago diversified life on Earth. The study published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances showed that the breakup of a major asteroid between Jupiter and Mars filled the entire inner solar sys ...
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#1222802019-09-19
Learning how to restore deep-sea coral communities
The deep, cold waters off the rocky coast of Point Sur, California, are home to an unexpected community of organisms that most people associate with tropical settings—corals. Scientist Charlie Boch and his colleagues recently compared different methods to restore deep-sea coral by transplanting ...