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#1227782019-10-29
Stripes can help prey stay hidden on the move, our new research reveals
For prey in the animal kingdom, one wrong move can mean death. Species have evolved camouflage to blend into their environment – some moths may share the colour of the tree bark they rest on while a lizard might resemble the sandy yellow of its desert home. But what about when these animals need ...
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#1227802019-10-29
A Key to Coral Bleaching Events? Location, Location, Location
New research indicates that longitude, as well as warming waters, may be a key predictor of coral bleaching events. Understanding the causes of coral bleaching events is an important goal for conservationists across the globe.
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#1227812019-10-29
Extinction of cold-water corals on the Namibian shelf due to low oxygen contents
Researchers have only been aware of the existence of fossil cold-water corals off the coast of Namibia since 2016. But it was not known when and why the cold-water corals in this region became extinct. By dating fossil coral fragments, Leonardo Tamborrino of MARUM—Center for Marine Environmental ...
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#1227962019-10-30
Largest mapping of breathing ocean floor key to understanding global carbon cycle
Marine sediments play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle due to the oxygen consumption and CO2 respiration of the organisms that live in and on the ocean floor. To help predict the changing contribution of this respiration to the carbon cycle in a warming world, researchers from the Royal ...
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#1227972019-10-30
The use of sugarcane straw for bioenergy is an opportunity, but there are pros and cons
The use of sugarcane leaves, known as trash or straw, to produce electricity and second-generation (2G) ethanol has been advocated as a means of increasing bioenergy generation without expanding cropland acreage. However, a study conducted in Brazil and published in the journal BioEnergy Researc ...
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#1227982019-10-30
Parasite manipulates algal metabolism for its own benefit
Microalgae can form massive assemblages in oceans, attracting many opportunistic organisms; these are capable of eliminating the entire algal population within a short time. However, the underlying mechanisms of this watery arms race are largely unknown. In a new publication in Nature Communicat ...
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#1228052019-10-30
Detection dogs and DNA on the trail of endangered lizards
Detection dogs trained to sniff out the scat of an endangered lizard in California's San Joaquin Valley, combined with genetic species identification, could represent a new noninvasive sampling technique for lizard conservation worldwide. That is according to a study published today from the Uni ...
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#1228082019-10-30
Robust evidence of declines in insect abundance and biodiversity
There are certain times in life — whether in our relationships, personal health or scientific research — when we think that we know something but the evidence is less than conclusive. An accumulation of clues or symptoms might suggest a particular interpretation without being strong enough to cl ...
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#1228132019-10-31
Study shows how climate change may affect environmental conservation areas
Brazil contains the largest expanse of tropical ecosystems within protected areas, but a significant proportion of these reserves may be vulnerable to the effects of ongoing global climate change, according to a study published in the journal Conservation Biology.
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#1228202019-10-31
Vampire bats give a little help to their 'friends'
Vampire bats could be said to be sort of like people—not because of their blood-sucking ways, but because they help their neighbors in need even if it's of no obvious benefit to them.
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#1228212019-10-31
Climate engineering should not be considered a public good, new research shows
Countries around the world are preparing to modify the earth's climate to cope with climate change, with many proponents touting it as a "public good."
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#1228262019-11-01
Coral study challenges long-held scientific theory: Aussie research
A world-first Australian study of coral has challenged long-held scientific assumptions about the role of sunlight in creating biodiversity, with impacts potentially extending far beyond the reef.
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#1228332019-11-01
What drives circadian rhythms in the polar regions?
In temperate latitudes, the right timing is crucial for almost all living things: Plants sprout with the advent of spring, bees know the best times to visit flowers, people get tired in the evening and wake up again in the morning.
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#1228342019-11-01
Food waste in tourism is a bigger issue than previously thought
There are major gaps in how food waste in tourism is understood and calculated, according to researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Southern California. Food waste originating from hotels, restaurants and events is recognised and can be estimated and calculated, b ...
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#1228352019-11-01
Rice yields plummet and arsenic rises in future climate-soil scenarios
Rice is the largest global staple crop, consumed by more than half the world's population—but new experiments from Stanford University suggest that with climate change, production in major rice-growing regions with endemic soil arsenic will undergo a dramatic decline and jeopardize critical food ...
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#1228362019-11-01
The largest seabirds in the North Atlantic travel hundreds of miles just to catch food
Gannets, the largest seabirds in the North Atlantic, can travel hundreds of miles from their homes just to catch food for their chicks. However, with around a million square miles of ocean to choose from, it has always been a mystery how they decide where is best to search for fish.
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#1228372019-11-01
Echolocation found to be cheap for deep-diving whales
A new international study led by Aarhus University in Denmark, in collaboration with the Universities of St Andrews and La Laguna, Tenerife, reveals how whales have evolved to live in the world's deepest oceans.
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#1228382019-11-01
Soil bacteria found to use several approaches in 'suppressive soils' to protect plants
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in The Netherlands and two in Brazil has discovered how some soil bacteria protect crops against a fungal disease. In their paper published in the journal Science, they describe their transcriptional analysis of several types of soil bac ...
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#1228522019-11-04
Ban on destructive fishing practice helps species recovery in Indonesian park
Fish stocks in a marine national park in Indonesia increased significantly in the years after a ban on the use of coral-destroying nets was imposed, a recent study has found.
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#1228562019-11-04
Shark skin microbiome resists infection
A survey of the shark skin microbiome provides the first step toward understanding the remarkable resilience of shark wounds to infection.
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#1228572019-11-04
Puffins make poor diet choices when the chips are down
A new study has shown that Britain's puffins may struggle to adapt to changes in their North Sea feeding grounds and researchers are calling for better use of marine protection areas (MPAs) to help protect the country's best known seabirds. Britain's coasts support globally important populations ...
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#1228582019-11-04
The world is getting wetter, yet water may become less available for North America and Eurasia
With climate change, plants of the future will consume more water than in the present day, leading to less water available for people living in North America and Eurasia, according to a Dartmouth-led study in Nature Geoscience. The research suggests a drier future despite anticipated precipitati ...
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#1228592019-11-04
Revealing interior temperature of Antarctic ice sheet
As ESA's SMOS satellite celebrates 10 years in orbit, yet another result has been added to its list of successes. This remarkable satellite mission has shown that it can be used to measure how the temperature of the Antarctic ice sheet changes with depth—and it's much warmer deep down.
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#1228662019-11-04
To save biodiversity, scientists suggest 'mega-conservation'
While the conservation of charismatic creatures like pandas, elephants and snow leopards are important in their own right, there may be no better ecological bang-for-our-buck than a sound, science-based effort to save widespread keystone systems. And the majestic aspens could be a perfect start ...
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#1228712019-11-06
Scientist sheds light on complexity of biodiversity loss
Two-thirds of America's bird species are threatened with extinction, according to the National Audubon Society. Many other studies show similar declines in mammals, insect and fish species across the globe.
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#1228732019-11-06
Human activities are drying out the Amazon: NASA study
A new NASA study shows that over the last 20 years, the atmosphere above the Amazon rainforest has been drying out, increasing the demand for water and leaving ecosystems vulnerable to fires and drought. It also shows that this increase in dryness is primarily the result of human activities.
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#1228742019-11-06
Combatting air pollution with nature
Air pollution is composed of particles and gases that can have negative impacts on both the environment and human health. Technologies to mitigate pollution have become widespread in recent years, but scientists are now exploring a new, pared-down approach: using nature to restore ecological bal ...
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#1228842019-11-06
Figuring out the total human impacts on biodiversity
How much have humans affected the population of other species on the planet? A new methodology for documenting the cumulative human impacts on biodiversity aims to answer this question.
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#1228852019-11-06
Study Finds Reasons for Plant Extinction Vary Across the World and Over Time
A team of Russian researchers from Tyumen State University together with foreign colleagues studied the cases of plant extinction in world biodiversity hotspots and coldspots.
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#1228992019-11-07
Minimizing post-harvest food losses
The crops have been harvested. Now it is important to store the various crops well and to preserve them as long and as carefully as possible. Post-harvest losses due to spoilage, however, represent a significant problem along the supply chain and lead to profit losses in the millions.
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#1229012019-11-07
Rhode Island conditions excellent for growing world's most expensive spice: researchers
Saffron is the world's most expensive spice, selling for about $5,000 per pound at wholesale rates, and 90 percent of the global saffron harvest comes from Iran. But University of Rhode Island agriculture researchers have found that Ocean State farms have the potential to get a share of the mark ...
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#1229022019-11-07
Origins of life: new evidence first cells could have formed at the bottom of the ocean
Where did life come from? In recent years, many scientists have shifted from favouring a "primordial soup" in pools of water to hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean as the original source of life on Earth. But one of the biggest problems with this idea is that researchers have been unable to rec ...
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#1229042019-11-07
School children have too much phone time, not enough play time
New data shows some of the biggest issues confronting parents these days all seem to have one common element: smart devices.An overwhelming majority of Australians (nearly 92%) believe smartphones and other media have reduced the physical activity levels and outdoor playtime of children.
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#1229372019-11-08
Millions of seabirds rely on discarded fish
Millions of scavenging seabirds survive on fish discarded by North Sea fishing vessels, new research shows.University of Exeter scientists estimate that 267,000 tonnes of fish was discarded in the North Sea in 2010—enough to feed 3.45 million birds.
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#1229402019-11-08
Conservation scientists call for reverse to biodiversity loss
A group of international conservationists is urging governments across the globe to adopt a new approach to address the impact of economic development on the natural world. Renowned researchers, including University of Queensland scientists, aim to draw attention to what they call "net positive ...
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#1229572019-11-11
Study shows cover crops and perennials do not necessarily increase carbon storage in soil
The ability of cover crops to stimulate microbes deep in the soil of farm fields leads to significant gains in water quality but does not necessarily increase the capacity of soil to store carbon, according to a recently published study from Iowa State University scientists.
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#1229712019-11-13
Scientists find two identical-looking bird species have very different genes
While reports of species going extinct are sadly becoming common, an international team of scientists has identified a new species of bird living on the Southern coast of China, that diverged from their Northern relatives around half a million years ago.
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#1229742019-11-13
Research team discovers epigenetic pathway that controls social behavior in carpenter ants
Through early adulthood, exposure to new experiences—like learning to drive a car or memorizing information for an exam—triggers change in the human brain, re-wiring neural pathways to imprint memories and modify behavior. Similar to humans, the behavior of Florida carpenter ants is not set in s ...
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#1229802019-11-13
Toxic Algal Blooms Are Worsening with Climate Change
Researchers use remote sensing technology to carry out a global survey of large freshwater lakes.Every summer, vast blooms of harmful algae erupt in freshwater lakes across the United States. This year, blue-green mats of algae blanketed more than 1,500 square kilometers of Lake Erie’s surface b ...
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#1229922019-11-15
How multiple factors of climate change affect soil
A team of ecologists at Freie Universität Berlin studied soil and how it was affected by multiple factors of climate change. The team, led by Prof. Dr. Matthias Rillig, experimentally examined effects of up to 10 factors of climate change by randomly adding an increasing number of such factors.
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#1229962019-11-15
Plankton Biodiversity Mapped Globally
A team of scientists sailed around the world to catalog the diversity of plankton species in the ocean. Their findings have important economic implications as climate warms.
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#1229972019-11-15
Piling on the pressures to ecosystems
A multitude of anthropogenic pressures and perturbations now assault the world's ecosystems. The air is enriched with carbon dioxide (CO2), temperature extremes and droughts happen with increasing frequency, and a wide range of pollutants accumulate in the soil and water, including pesticides, m ...
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#1230012019-11-15
New research expands the answers we can get from bat guano
Here's the thing about bats: They can fly. And they do that in the dark.Those two factors make bats, which make up 20 percent of the mammal species, extremely difficult to study.
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#1230032019-11-15
Arctic Ocean could be ice-free for part of the year as soon as 2044
It's hard to imagine the Arctic without sea ice.But according to a new study by UCLA climate scientists, human-caused climate change is on track to make the Arctic Ocean functionally ice-free for part of each year starting sometime between 2044 and 2067.
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#1230322019-11-18
Are We Really in a 6th Mass Extinction? Here's The Science
For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth. The flip side to this explosion of new species is that species extinctions have also always been part of the evolutionary life cycle.
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#1230372019-11-18
Scientists Say: Species
This is a word that describes organisms that share genetic and physical traits and are more closely related to each other than to any other group. Scientists sometimes define species as a group of organisms with members that meet two requirements.
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#1230392019-11-18
Researchers in Japan uncover fossil of bird from Early Cretaceous
A combined team of researchers from Japan and China has announced the finding and study of the fossilized remains of a bird from the Early Cretaceous. In their paper published in the journal Communications Biology, the group describes where the fossil was found, its features and what it represen ...
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#1230402019-11-18
Fossil dig leads to unexpected discovery of 91-million-year-old shark new to science
A 91-million-year-old fossil shark newly named Cretodus houghtonorum discovered in Kansas joins a list of large dinosaur-era animals. Preserved in sediments deposited in an ancient ocean called the Western Interior Seaway that covered the middle of North America during the Late Cretaceous period ...
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#1230562019-11-19
Saving 'half Earth' for nature would affect over a billion people
As the extinction crisis escalates, and protest movements grow, some are calling for hugely ambitious conservation targets. Among the most prominent is sparing 50% of the Earth's surface for nature.
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#1230612019-11-19
Why We Need To Consider The Human Toll Of Conserving Half The Earth
Humanity has pushed Earth to the brink with more than a million species threatened with extinction. There are a number of ideas for how to stop the collapse of nature, but among the most radical is the idea of conserving half the planet.