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#1325432022-01-17
Tonga calls for ‘immediate aid’ after volcanic eruption, tsunami
Tonga is calling for “immediate aid”, with an urgent need for fresh water and food, as it assesses the damage caused by Saturday’s eruption of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai.
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#1259732020-12-02
Tomato's wild ancestor is a genomic reservoir for plant breeders
Thousands of years ago, people in South America began domesticating Solanum pimpinellifolium, a weedy plant with small, intensely flavored fruit. Over time, the plant evolved into S. lycopersicum—the modern cultivated tomato.
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#1260192020-12-03
To save life on Earth, consult this new map
Reversing biodiversity loss, halting climate change and even preventing the emergence of new pandemics may seem like isolated objectives, but they are not. A group of scientists set out to create an interactive digital map to show which land areas are essential to meet these challenges and save ...
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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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#1277212021-03-16
To save giant sequoia trees, maybe it's time to plant backups
Last month, unusually high winds knocked down 15 giant sequoias in Yosemite. If you haven't had a chance to see them in person, giant sequoias are big—like, warp-your-sense-of-scale and melt-your-brain big.
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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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#1226942019-10-21
To fight climate change, science must be mobilised like it was in World War II
We’ve all but won the argument on climate change. The facts are now unequivocal and climate denialists are facing a losing battle. Concern has risen up the political agenda, and major economic institutions such as the World Trade Organisation and the Bank of England highlight the increasingly ex ...
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#1244882020-03-03
To bee, or not to bee, a question for almond growers
Pollination by bees is vital even when crops are assumed to be pollinator independent. That's according to a study co-authored by Ethel Villalobos, a researcher in the University of Hawaii at Manoa's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Department of Plant and Environmental Protec ...
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#1293462021-06-15
To Restore Biodiversity, Embrace Biotech’s ‘Intended Consequences’
In December of 2020, when scientists managed the incredible feat of cloning the endangered black-footed ferret, they took a leap toward the renewed global priority to combat climate change and biodiversity loss.
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#1337532022-03-07
Tiny worms make complex decisions, too
How does an animal make decisions? Scientists have spent decades trying to answer this question by focusing on the cells and connections of the brain that might be involved. Salk scientists are taking a different approach—analyzing behavior, not neurons.
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#1311712021-10-26
Tiny swimming creatures can create big currents in lake water
Lakes are usually pictured as tranquil environments, largely uninfluenced by the enormous tidal power which drives the oceans. But the surface winds that act upon lakes can significantly alter the environment in which many lake species thrive—particularly during summer.
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#1295842021-07-21
Tiny organisms shed big light on ocean nutrients
As the world warms, sweeping changes in marine nutrients seem like an expected consequence of increased ocean temperatures. However, the reality is more complicated. New research suggests that processes below the ocean surface may be controlling what is happening above.
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#1271032021-02-16
Tiny new species discovered as scientists' outback fishing trip bags exotic catch
Research scientists from Australia's national science agency, CSIRO and Charles Darwin University used fishing rods and handlines to plumb the depths of underground aquifers in the Northern Territory revealing a diverse variety of tiny aquatic animals known as stygofauna, mostly between 0.3 and ...
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#1269922021-02-11
Tiny microorganisms in the Southern Ocean affect how the rest of the world's seas respond to carbon
In the ocean that surrounds Antarctica, deep water wells up to the surface, carrying nutrients and other dissolved materials needed by light-loving ocean life. One of these materials is calcium carbonate, which, when dissolved, raises seawater alkalinity and helps the ocean respond to increasing ...
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#1353562022-07-15
Tiny limbs and long bodies: Coordinating lizard locomotion
Snakes and lizards have distinct body movement patterns. Lizards bend from side to side as they retract their legs to walk or run. Snakes, on the other hand, slither and undulate, like a wave that travels down the body. However, there are species of lizards that have long, snakelike bodies, and ...
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#1241542020-02-13
Tiny Dancer: Scientists spy on booty-shaking bees to help conservation
We've long known honey bees shake their behinds to communicate the location of high-value flower patches to one another, a form of signaling that scientists refer to as "waggle dances."
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#1269692021-02-10
Timing of phytoplankton blooms in the Red Sea could help determine next year's fish catch
Satellite images reveal that the timing of algal blooms in the Red Sea may affect the next haul of sardines and squid by commercial fisheries.
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#1283172021-04-28
Time for a mass extinction metrics makeover
Researchers at Yale and Princeton say the scientific community sorely needs a new way to compare the cascading effects of ecosystem loss due to human-induced environmental change to major crises of the past.
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#1201712019-03-01
Tibetan plateau rose later than we thought
The Tibetan Plateau today is on average 4,500 meters above sea level. It is the biggest mountain-building zone on Earth. Most analyses to date indicated that, back in the Eocene period some 40 million years ago, the plateau was about as high as it is today.
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#1260992020-12-09
Through war, wildfire and pandemic, the world’s seed vaults hold strong
By the time the war broke out in Syria, researchers from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) had already duplicated and safely transported most of their genetic treasure trove to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, N ...
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#1341772022-04-25
Three critically endangered Sumatran tigers killed in Indonesia
Three critically endangered Sumatran tigers were found dead in western Indonesia on Sunday after being ensnared by traps, police said, dealing another blow to the species' rapidly declining population.
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#1342102022-04-27
Threatened South American coati found roaming in a large city
You may assume that metropolitan areas are devoid of wildlife, but that is very far from the truth. The remaining green spaces within the urban matrices of large cities can serve as corridors or stepping stones for wild animals.
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#1297392021-07-28
Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’
Thousands of scientists have repeated calls for urgent action to tackle the climate emergency, warning that several tipping points are now imminent.
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#1337832022-03-08
Thousands of dugong and turtle deaths to follow Queensland floods, experts predict
Hundreds of dugongs and thousands of turtles will likely starve to death in coming months after flood waters smothered Queensland’s seagrass meadows with sediment.
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#1337322022-03-07
Those birds that crashed and died? It wasn't fumes
You've probably seen the video—or at least heard some chirpings about it. Footage from a security camera in Cuauhtémoc, a city in Chihuahua, Mexico, shows a massive flock of migratory birds swooping down like a cloud of black smoke and crashing onto pavement and the roof of a house.
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#1333482022-02-18
This woman discovered climate change 5 years before the man who gets credit for it
Chances are you’ve never heard of Eunice Foote, but she was the first person to document climate change. Five years before the man credited for discovering it.
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#1277372021-03-19
This is when oceans could start emitting ozone-depleting gases
The world’s oceans are a vast repository for gases including ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs. They absorb these gases from the atmosphere and draw them down to the deep, where they can remain sequestered for centuries and more.
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#1259082020-11-27
This is how we prevent future pandemics, say 22 leading scientists
Here’s the good news: we can prevent future pandemics. But only if we take steps to protect the environment and restore its natural defences, according to an international group of 22 leading scientists.
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#1275332021-03-04
This frog has lungs that act like noise-canceling headphones, study shows
To succeed in mating, many male frogs sit in one place and call to their potential mates. But this raises an important question familiar to anyone trying to listen to someone talking at a busy cocktail party: how does a female hear and then find a choice male of her own species among all the irr ...
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#1269062021-02-08
This 4000-Year-Old Beetle Is Returning To The Uk Due To Climate Change
Researchers believe Britain’s warming climate may result in the return of a species of 4,000-year-old beetle.Believed to have lived among ancient Egyptians, curators at the UK’s Natural History Museum (NHM) were astonished when they received two preserved bodies of the Oak Capricorn Beetle as a ...
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#1202072019-03-05
Thirteen mammal extinctions prevented by havens
A stocktake of Australia's animal havens – conservation areas free of cats and foxes – has found that they have already prevented 13 mammal extinctions.
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#1279852021-04-08
Third of Antarctic ice shelf area at risk of collapse as planet warms
More than a third of the Antarctic's ice shelf area could be at risk of collapsing into the sea if global temperatures reach 4°C above pre-industrial levels, new research has shown.
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#1198662019-02-08
Think big—at least when it comes to global conservation
According to a group of international researchers, the potential for large countries to contribute to environmental protection is being overlooked.The researchers, spanning 13 universities and three countries, were led by UBC Okanagan's Adam T. Ford and Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Coristine.
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#1300072021-08-18
Thick-shelled turtle egg with embryo still inside from the Cretaceous period found in China
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China and Canada has identified a turtle egg fossil from the Cretaceous period that contains an embryo. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes where the egg was found and what they learned ...
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#1252852020-04-28
They remember: Communities of microbes found to have working memory
Biologists studying collectives of bacteria, or "biofilms," have discovered that these so-called simple organisms feature a robust capacity for memory.
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#1269142021-02-08
These shrimplike crustaceans are the fastest snappers in the sea
The snapping claws of male amphipods—tiny, shrimplike crustaceans—are among the fastest and most energetic of any life on Earth. Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on February 8 find that the crustaceans can repeatedly close their claws in less than 0.01% of a second, generatin ...
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#1239802020-01-28
These scientists created a 'cloud curtain' in Peru’s tropical forests to mimic the future
How do you make clouds suddenly disappear? Sunny days aside, what may seem like a question from a 1950s love song is actually one of science.
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#1341722022-04-25
These male spiders catapult at impressive speeds to flee their mates before they get eaten
After males of the orb-weaving spider Philoponella prominens mate with a female, they quickly launch themselves away, researchers report on April 25 in the journal Current Biology.
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#1302362021-09-02
These geckos crash-land on rainforest trees but don't fall, thanks to their tails
A gecko's tail is a wondrous and versatile thing. In more than 15 years of research on geckos, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and, more recently, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, have shown that geckos use their tails to maneuver in m ...
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#1349902022-06-14
These fish live in sub-freezing waters. Why are so many getting sick?
Antarctic fish have evolved to survive—and thrive—under unbearable conditions. They make their living at the sub-zero Centigrade, freezing temperatures of the ice-filled Southern Ocean, and they keep their bodies from freezing solid by producing an antifreeze protein in their blood.
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#1257242020-11-17
These Rare Seeds Escaped Syria's War—to Help Feed the World
IN 2014, THE remaining staff of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, or ICARDA, fled their beloved gene bank in Tel Hadia, 20 miles south of Aleppo. Syria’s civil war, which had broken out three years earlier, had finally made the staffing of the facility untenabl ...
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#1336122022-03-01
These Climate Scientists Are Fed Up and Ready to Go on Strike
Sometimes, Bruce C. Glavovic feels so proud to be an environmental scientist, studying coastal planning and teaching future researchers, that it moves him to tears.
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#1196382019-01-28
There’s a Subterranean Biosphere Hiding in the Earth’s Crust and It’s Massive
This mysterious new ecosystem is being called the ‘subterranean galapagos’ and it’s almost twice the size of earth’s oceans. We’ve never seen anything like it.
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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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#1280872021-04-20
There's a lot more to Australia's red cedar than timber
Native deciduous trees are rare in Australia, which means many of the red, yellow and brown leaves we associate with autumn come from introduced species, such as maples, oaks and elms.
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#1272372021-02-22
There is no one-size-fits-all road to sustainability on "Patchwork Earth"
In a world as diverse as our own, the journey towards a sustainable future will look different depending on where in the world we live, according to a recent paper published in One Earth and led by McGill University, with researchers from the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
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#1276962021-03-15
There are more shark and ray species in the cold seas of Russia
TSU Biological Institute and Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences scientists have compiled a complete annotated list of marine, brackish, and freshwater ichthyofauna of Sakhalin Island and the adjacent southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk.
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#1343052022-05-05
There Are Mountains of Sugar Hidden in The Ocean, And We've Only Just Found Out
Hidden below the waves, the ocean contains vast reserves of sugar that we never were aware of, according to new research.
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#1238852020-01-22
The yellow black-faced triplefin deflects sunlight to break predator camouflage
Small fish use light for active sensing to detect potential predators. The yellow black-faced triplefin (Tripterygion delaisi) can reflect downwelling sunlight sideways with its iris, illuminating its immediate surroundings.
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#1301692021-08-31
The world’s scientific panel on biodiversity needs a bigger role
For more than 30 years, the international community has tried and failed to find a path to slow down — and eventually reverse — worldwide declines in the richness of plant and animal species. Next year, it will have another chance. The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nation ...