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Warming Climate Is Changing Where Birds Breed

May 27, 2020
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Logan, UT — Spring is in full swing. Trees are leafing out, flowers are blooming, bees are buzzing, and birds are singing. But a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

DNA Metabarcoding Reveals Metacommunity Dynamics in a Threatened Boreal Wetland

May 13, 2020
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Guelph, ON, Canada — The ability to accurately detect changes in ecosystem biodiversity caused by human activity has long challenged environmental scientists and ecologists, but a new study, published...

Big Data Reveals We’re Running Out of Time to Save Environment and Ourselves

April 27, 2020
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Melbourne, Australia — The use of big data can help scientists’ chart not only the degradation of the environment but can be part of the solution to achieve sustainability, according to a new...

North Pole Soon to be Ice Free in Summer

April 21, 2020
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Hamburg, Germany — The Arctic Ocean in summer will very likely be ice free before 2050, at least temporally. The efficacy of climate-protection measures will determine how often and for how long. These...

Scientists Develop New Way to Identify the Sex of Sea Turtle Hatchlings

April 8, 2020
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Boca Raton, FL — Unlike humans, sea turtles and other reptiles like crocodiles do not have sex chromosomes. Their sex is defined during development by the incubation environment. In sea turtles, sex...

Viruses Don’t Have a Metabolism; But Some Have Building Blocks For One

April 7, 2020
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Blacksburg, VA — In satellite photos of the Earth, clouds of bright green bloom across the surface of lakes and oceans as algae populations explode in nutrient-rich water. From the air, the algae appear...

Study Identifies New Temperature Sensing Mechanism in Plants

April 6, 2020
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Riverside, CA — A protein called phytochrome B, which can sense light and temperature, triggers plant growth and controls flowering time. How it does so is not fully understood. In a paper published...

Using Sponges to Wipe Out Cancer

April 6, 2020
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Columbia, SC — A sponge found in Manado Bay, Indonesia, makes a molecule called manzamine A, which stops the growth of cervical cancer cells, according to a recent publication in the Journal of Natural...

New Model Helps Explain Seasonal Variations in Urban Heat Islands

March 25, 2020
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Durham, NC — Scientists have devised a simple new model that explains how the undesirable effects of urban heat islands vary across seasons. Their results could help cities in different climatic regions...

Epigenetic inheritance: A silver bullet against climate change?

March 23, 2020
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Kiel, Germany — The current pace of climate change exceeds historical events by 1-2 orders of magnitude, which will make it hard for organisms and ecosystems to adapt. For a long time, it has been...

Closing Carbon Cycle to Stop Climate Change

March 19, 2020
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Mumbai, India — An excessive amount of carbon dioxide is the main cause of climate change. One of the best approaches is to capture and convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuel such as methane. On the...

Crop Diversity can Buffer Effects of Climate Change

March 19, 2020
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Stanford, CA — How we farm can guard against climate change and protect critical wildlife – but only if we leave single-crop farms in the dust, according to a new Stanford study. The research...

Comparisons of Organic and Conventional Agriculture Need to Be Better, Say Researchers

March 18, 2020
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Gothenburg, Sweden — The environmental effects of agriculture and food are hotly debated. But the most widely used method of analysis often tends to overlook vital factors, such as biodiversity, soil...

Biomass Fuels can Significantly Mitigate Global Warming

March 12, 2020
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Beer-Sheva, Israel — Biomass fuels derived from various grasses could significantly mitigate global warming by reducing carbon, according to a long-term field study by researchers at Ben-Gurion University...

Climate Variations may Impact Base of Food Web Along California Coast

March 10, 2020
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San Luis Obispo, CA — In a recent study published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, researchers at California Polytechnic State University revealed that in addition to seasonal changes in winds and...

Scientists Say It Is Time to Save the Red Sea’s Coral Reef

March 6, 2020
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Stony Brook, NY — An international group of researchers led by Dr. Karine Kleinhaus, of the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), calls upon UNESCO to declare the...

Satellite Data Boosts Understanding of Climate Change’s Effects on Kelp

March 6, 2020
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Corvallis, OR — Tapping into 35 years of satellite imagery, researchers at Oregon State University have dramatically enlarged the database regarding how climate change is affecting kelps, near-shore...

Scientists Call on Government to Increase Ambition to Save Our Ocean

February 26, 2020
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Plymouth, UK — In the last decade there has been rapid expansion in the area of ocean designated as a Marine Protected Area (MPA). Despite this progress, marine biodiversity continues to decline,...

Wildfire Cycles and Climate Change

February 25, 2020
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Beijing, China — Wildfire, a natural phenomenon, existed on the Earth over 400 Ma. However, the mechanisms underlying wildfire-climate interactions are not clear. Wildfire forcing has long been underestimated...

Genetic Map for Maize

February 24, 2020
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Newark, DE — Maize is a staple food all over the world. In the United States, where it’s better known as corn, nearly 90 million acres were planted in 2018, earning $47.2 billion in crop cash...

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