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One of the planet’s most active ecosystems is one most people rarely encounter and scientists are only starting to explore. The open ocean contains tiny organisms — phytoplankton — that perform half the photosynthesis on Earth, helping generate oxygen for…
A new study provides an updated picture of the prevalence of the sheep and goat plague virus (PPRV), a widespread and often fatal disease that threatens 80 percent of the world’s sheep and goats, in northern Tanzania. According to the…
Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed new artificial intelligence software to recognise and track the faces of individual chimpanzees in the wild. The new software will allow researchers and wildlife conservationists to significantly cut back on time and…
Winning postdoctoral scientists include neuroscientist researching mosquito feeding habits, theoreti
Three new viruses — including one from a group of viruses never before shown to infect fish — have
Urban heat islands are a phenomenon where the temperature in a city is noticeably higher than in the surrounding rural area. When combined with the sort of heatwave that hit many parts of Europe at the beginning of July, urban…
Taxes that incentivize environmentally friendly practices could promote green development
Hearing casual chatter of birds after predator call reassures squirrels to come off high alert
SEATTLE, Wash. – As preschoolers across the nation head into classroom buildings for the start of the school year, more than 300 Seattle area children enrolled in the Tiny Trees Preschool will get to spend their time learning outside–rain or…
Corals are shown to recycle their own waste ammonium using a surprising source of glucose–a finding that reveals more about the relationship between corals and their symbiotic algae. Symbiosis between corals and algae provides the backbone for building coral reefs,…
New insight on how bar-headed geese maintain flight at extreme altitudes opens avenues to further re
Stanford researchers investigate obstacles to disease eradication
Selective browsing by white-tailed deer has been blamed by many for changing the character and composition of forest understories in the eastern U.S.; however, its impact on the forest canopy was previously unknown. Now, a new study led by a…
Series penned by Eva Pell, former Undersecretary for Science at the Smithsonian and Penn State Admin
Climate change could negatively impact banana cultivation in some of the world’s most important producing and exporting countries, a study has revealed. Bananas are recognised as the most important fruit crop – providing food, nutrition and income for millions in…
A multi-national team of evolutionary biologists shows that diversity exists even when expecting oth
The first volume of a new book series on marine ecology explores marine pollution and why it is a ca
The 2017 wildfire season was the most extensive and expensive in U.S. history. Fires scorched 10 million acres in the western U.S. and federal fire-suppression expenditure surpassed a record $2.9 billion. There’s no end to the record breaking in sight:…
A newly published series of dates of grape harvest covering the past 664 years is the latest line of evidence confirming how unusual the climate of the past 30 years has been. The record shows wine grapes in Burgundy, eastern…
Loss of species may have greater ecological impact than previously thought
The first documented discovery of ‘extreme corals’ in mangrove lagoons around Australia’s Great Barr
Researchers discover remarkably complete 3.8-million-year-old cranium of Australopithecus anamensis
Interdisciplinary team produces first high-resolution map of ocean surface phosphate
Temperate grasslands are the most endangered but least protected ecosystems on Earth. Grassland restorations are crucial for recovering this important but highly degraded ecosystem. Restored grasslands, however, tend to be more species poor and lose diversity through time as compared…
Declining growth of Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System corals predicts trouble for worldwide reefs
Clues from Canadian rocks formed billions of year ago reveal a previously unknown loss of life even greater than that of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, when Earth lost nearly three-quarters of its plant and…
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Faculty from Michigan State University received a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for an experiment to improve the health of Detroit’s residents by cultivating green spaces in the city. Amber Pearson, assistant…
Crows can voluntarily control the release and onset of their calls, suggesting that songbird vocalizations are under cognitive control, according to a study published August 27 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Katharina Brecht of the University of Tübingen,…
Use of program in North Dakota has led to rebound in numbers of white-tailed deer and other wildlife
Study shows chemical weathering is the cause of CO2 consumption in glacier-fed freshwater systems
Conventional management indicators do not show the whole picture of deforestation
Use of program in North Dakota has led to rebound in numbers of white-tailed deer and other wildlife
URBANA, Ill. – Children are losing their connection to nature. It’s more than an unfortunate abstraction. Scientists say our increasingly indoor lifestyle negatively affects our health and well-being, not to mention our drive to protect the natural world. And it…
Conventional management indicators do not show the whole picture of deforestation
URBANA, Ill. – Children are losing their connection to nature. It’s more than an unfortunate abstraction. Scientists say our increasingly indoor lifestyle negatively affects our health and well-being, not to mention our drive to protect the natural world. And it…
Scientists from Russia and the United States studied the composition of the deep layers of permafrost in Eastern Siberia to better understand the hazards of permafrost thawing to our planet and its inhabitants. Their findings suggest that the release of…
An apple plantation in spring. The trees are in full bloom. But to ensure that they also yield in autumn, workers have to do a real fluff job for weeks: each individual flower is manually pollinated with brushes – because…
A group of biologists from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have discovered a new fireworm species in Hong Kong waters and named it Chloeia bimaculata . It is the fourth named species to be added to the fireworm genus Chloeia…
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26, 2019 — Flame retardants are present in thousands of everyday items, from clothing to furniture to electronics. Although these substances can help prevent fire-related injuries and deaths, they could have harmful effects on human health and…
Natalia Kuznetsova, a graduate of a NUST MISIS master’s program “Technologies and Materials of Digital Fabrication”, has developed a new biodegradable composite material with nettle fiber as a filler. Chemelot Campus (Netherlands), one of the largest chemical clusters in Europe…
The Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change call for deep transformations that require complementary actions by governments, civil society, science, and business. IIASA contributed to a new study outlining six major transformations that will be required…
Scientists from NUST MISIS have turned hogweed into a material for a supercapacitor
Long-term measurements reveal links between climate change and ocean carbon dynamics
Developmental changes fine-tune the role of vibration-sensitive neuron
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) researchers visualized how allergic pollen fro
Julie Guthman’s new book Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Indu
Targeting the mosquito population within a defined area is the primary way scientists and public health officials mitigate the spread of diseases caused by viruses like Zika, dengue fever, and West Nile. But researchers have discovered that evaluating how humans…
Ocean acidification is having a negative impact on diatoms, a key group of microscopic marine organi
Experiments performed in Brazil show that systematic eradication of plants contaminated by cowpea ap
In a first-ever study investigating the risk of neonicotinoid insecticides to ground-nesting bees, University of Guelph researchers have discovered at least one species is being exposed to lethal levels of the chemicals in the soil. Examining the presence of these…
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