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Climate Change

Scientists Develop a Cheaper Method that might Help Create Fuels from Plants

January 12, 2021
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COLUMBUS, OH — Scientists have figured out a cheaper, more efficient way to conduct a chemical reaction at the heart of many biological processes, which may lead to better ways to create biofuels from...

Protecting Global Food Supply Chain

January 11, 2021
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Newark, DE — As the world grows increasingly globalized, one of the ways that countries have come to rely on one another is through a more intricate and interconnected food supply chain. Food produced...

How Climate Change is Disrupting Ecosystems

December 18, 2020
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Zürich, Switzerland — The world is getting warmer and warmer – and many organisms native to lower latitudes or elevations are moving higher. However, novel organisms moving into a new habitat...

Ninety Years of Data Shows Global Warming Impacts on Foundation of Marine Ecosystems

November 3, 2020
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Ultimo, Australia — Understanding the impacts of global warming on phytoplankton- the foundation of marine ecosystems -is critical to predicting changes in future biodiversity, ocean productivity,...

To Protect Nature’s Benefits, Focus on People

October 13, 2020
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Stanford, CA — To calculate the true value of a forest, we need to know how people benefit from it, according to new research published in Nature Sustainability. A healthy forest holds a treasure trove...

Carbon Storage from the Lab

October 6, 2020
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Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany — Peatlands with their huge diversity of peat moss species store about 30 percent of the earth’s soil carbon. This means they store roughly twice as much carbon...

Effects of Nutrient Pollution in Marine Ecosystems are Compounded by Human Activity

August 17, 2020
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Cambridge, MD — Excessive nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, have devastating effects on coastal marine ecosystems by causing algal blooms that deplete oxygen in the water, killing marine...

Global Threats: How Lessons From COVID-19 Can Prevent Environmental Meltdown

July 3, 2020
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Princeton, NJ — Epidemiologists highlighted the dangers of Covid-19 in its early stages, but their warnings went largely ignored until rising infection rates forced policymakers to take action. Likewise,...

Measuring Climate Change

June 2, 2020
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Newark, DE — One of the earth’s biggest allies in the fight against global warming is the world’s oceans. Since the industrial revolution, the burning of fossil fuels has caused carbon...

New Biosensor Visualizes Stress in Living Plant Cells in Real Time

June 2, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Plant biologists have long sought a deeper understanding of foundational processes involving kinases, enzymes that catalyze key biological activities in proteins. Analyzing the processes...

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...

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