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#1203352019-03-13
'Almost certain extinction': 1,200 species under severe threat across world
More than 1,200 species globally face threats to their survival in more than 90% of their habitat and “will almost certainly face extinction” without conservation intervention, according to new research.
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#1278212021-03-29
'Animal-stress' signal improves plant drought resilience
A team of Australian and German researchers has discovered a novel pathway that plants can use to save water and improve their drought tolerance.
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#1310542021-10-21
'Big John', largest-ever triceratops, goes under hammer
"Big John", 66 million years old and the largest triceratops skeleton ever unearthed at eight metres long, goes up for auction in Paris on Thursday.
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#1192592019-01-04
'Big data' may help tackle longstanding questions about plant diversity, evolution
Taking advantage of 'big data' - massive, open-access information resources in research - can help forecast how plant life will fare on an increasingly human-dominated planet.
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#1332092022-02-15
'Blue blob' near Iceland could slow glacial melting
A region of cooling water in the North Atlantic Ocean near Iceland, nicknamed the "Blue blob," has likely slowed the melting of the island's glaciers since 2011 and may continue to stymie ice loss until about 2050, according to new research.
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#1275132021-03-04
'Catastrophic': UK has lost 90% of seagrass meadows, study finds
The UK has lost more than 90% of the lush seagrass meadows that once surrounded the nation, research has found. Scientists described the decline as catastrophic, but the latest analysis also shows where the flowering plants could be restored.
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#1222422019-09-16
'Climigration': When communities must move because of climate change
Climate change increasingly threatens communities all over the world. News of fires, floods and coastal erosion devastating lives and livelihoods seems almost constant. The latest fires in Queensland and New South Wales mark the start of the earliest bushfire season the states have ever seen.
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#1197642019-02-05
'Eavesdropping' technology used to protect one of New Zealand's rarest birds
Remote recording devices used to 'eavesdrop' on a reintroduced population of one of New Zealand's rarest birds have been heralded as a breakthrough for conservation.
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#1332122022-02-15
'Freeze or flee' reactions run in fish families
University of Exeter scientists examined how Trinidadian guppies reacted to stress—did they freeze or flee?—and also measured their hormonal responses.
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#1274542021-03-02
'Giant luminous shark': researchers discover three deep-sea sharks glow in the dark
Scientists studying sharks off New Zealand have discovered that three deep-sea species glow in the dark – including one that is now the largest-known luminous vertebrate.
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#1255392020-11-04
'Helper' ambrosia beetles share reproduction with their mother
Fungus farming is a fascinating symbiosis that has evolved multiple times in social insects: once in ants, once in termites, and several times in weevils (beetles) from the subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae.
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#1201342019-02-27
'Ibiza is different', genetically
"Ibiza is different." That is what the hundreds of standard-bearers of the "hippie" movement who visited the Pitiusan Island during the 60s thought, fascinated by its climate and its unexplored nature. What they did not imagine was that the most unique feature of the island was in its inhabitant ...
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#1283272021-04-28
'Impossible to adapt': Surprisingly fast ice-melts in past raise fears about sea level rise
Studies of ancient beaches and fossilised coral reefs suggest sea levels have the potential to rise far more quickly than models currently predict, according to geologists who have been studying past periods of warming.
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#1328812022-02-02
'Insect apocalypse' looming under current conservation rules
Current UK conservation policies fail to protect important insect species such as bees which "are vital for our everyday lives and future existence," according to new research from the University of Aberdeen.
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#1295752021-07-21
'Jurassic Pompeii' yields thousands of 'squiggly wiggly' fossils
Palaeontologist Tim Ewin is standing in a quarry, recalling the calamity that's written in the rocks under his mud-caked boots. "They tried to protect themselves, adopting the stress position of pulling their arms in," he continues. "But it was all in vain; you can see where their arms got snagg ...
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#1333952022-02-21
'Light of a million suns' key to unlocking secrets of healthier and safer rice
Swinburne scientists are using a football field-sized synchrotron light facility to examine individual grains of rice to help enhance global food security, nutritional value and the food safety of cereal grains.
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#1264962020-12-29
'Like finding life on Mars': why the underground orchid is Australia's strangest, most mysterious flower
If you ask someone to imagine an orchid, chances are pots of moth orchids lined up for sale in a hardware store will spring to mind, with their thick shiny leaves and vibrant petals.
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#1239662020-01-27
'Listen to Scientists': Advocates of green policy awarded 'Nobel Prize for Environment'
The 2020 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement - often described as the 'Nobel Prize for the Environment' - has been awarded to conservation biologist Gretchen C. Daily, and environmental economist Pavan Sukhdev, both pioneers in illuminating and quantifying the economic value of our natural ...
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#1352932022-07-12
'No nature, no us': Environment Agency boss raises alarm over biodiversity crisis
Sir James Bevan expected to warn later today that England faces a ‘silent spring’ without action on nature loss. The boss of the Environment Agency, Sir James Bevan, is to deliver a speech later today warning how the biodiversity crisis poses an existential threat to the human race if left unadd ...
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#1283712021-04-30
'No one ever forgets living through a mouse plague': The dystopia facing Australian rural communities
Imagine constantly living with mice. Every time you open a cupboard to get linen, clothes or food, mice have been or are still there. When you go to sleep they run across your bed and, in the morning, your first job is to empty traps filled with dead mice. And the stench of dead mice fill the st ...
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#1351852022-07-04
'One of the botanical wonders of the world': Giant waterlily grown at Kew Gardens named new to science
A new paper, published today in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science, outlines a new botanical discovery in the genus Victoria, the famous giant waterlily genus named after Britain's Queen Victoria in 1852.
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#1249622020-03-31
'Probably the worst year in a century': the environmental toll of 2019
Record heat and drought across Australia delivered the worst environmental conditions across the country since at least 2000, with river flows, tree cover and wildlife being hit on an “unprecedented scale”, according to a new report.
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#1349862022-06-14
'Protective cloak' prevents plants from self-harming in very bright conditions
New work led by Carnegie's Petra Redekop, Emanuel Sanz-Luque, and Arthur Grossman probes the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which plants protect themselves from self-harm. Their findings, published by Science Advances, improve our understanding of one of the most-important biochemical proc ...
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#1199502019-02-14
'Seeing' tails help sea snakes avoid predators
New research has revealed the fascinating adaptation of some Australian sea snakes that helps protect their vulnerable paddle-shaped tails from predators.
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#1352162022-07-05
'Serious risk of extinction': Macadamias prove a tough nut to crack
Australian Institute of Botanical Science researchers are working with the University of Queensland to figure out world-first ways to store wild and cultivated macadamia genetic material and ultimately ensure the long-term survival of the species.
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#1329322022-02-03
'Smart' greenhouses could slash electricity costs
A new, internet-connected lighting system for greenhouses could sharply reduce a farmer's electrical bill, according to a study by University of Georgia researchers.
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#1269112021-02-08
'Spooning poo': how five Eiffel Towers' worth of sea cucumber poo helps sustain a Queensland reef
“In the wee hours of the morning … we weren’t too excited to be spooning poo,” reef ecologist Dr Vincent Raulot says. But that’s exactly what he and a team of researchers did to calculate out how much poop was excreted by an estimated 3 million sea cucumbers on the 20 sq km Heron Island coral re ...
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#1196332019-01-28
'Superbug gene' found in one of the most remote places on Earth
Antibiotic-Resistant Genes (ARGs) that were first detected in urban India have been found 8,000 miles away in one of the last 'pristine' places on earth, a new study has shown.
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#1244922020-03-03
'Sustainable gardening' includes many eco-friendly practices
"Sustainable" is one of gardening's trendiest buzzwords, yet it carries a range of definitions. Just what does it mean in practical terms, and how important is it to the average gardener?
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#1241572020-02-13
'Tangled ball of issues': Why geoengineering our climate raises serious ethical, scientific challenges
As global carbon emissions continue to rise despite warnings from the scientific community, there's been increased interest in a controversial method to potentially mitigate the rise in Earth's temperature: Geoengineering.
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#1232522019-12-04
'The message of urgency cannot be overstated,' EU environment body warns
The EU is not on track to meeting the vast majority of environmental targets for 2020—and the outlook for 2030 and 2040 is even bleaker. This is the devastating verdict of the groundbreaking State of the Environment Report 2020 published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA).
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#1303912021-09-14
'The pigs can smell man': How decimation of Borneo's rainforests threatens both hunters and hunted
For more than 40,000 years, Indigenous communities in Borneo have hunted and eaten bearded pigs—huge, nomadic animals that roam the island in Southeast Asia. These 100kg creatures are central to the livelihood and culture of some Bornean peoples—in fact, some hunters rarely talk of anything else.
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#1198042019-02-06
'Twilight Zone' could help preserve shallow water reefs
Corals lurking in deeper, darker waters could one day help to replenish shallow water reefs under threat from ocean warming and bleaching events, according to researchers.
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#1291972021-06-10
'Vegan spider silk' provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics
Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products.
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#1255942020-11-06
'We're seeing more than ever': white shark populations rise off California coast
Chris Lowe is no longer surprised when he sees drone footage of juvenile white sharks cruising near surfers and swimmers in southern California’s ocean waters.
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#1194072019-01-16
'Zebra' tribal bodypaint cuts fly bites 10-fold: study
Traditional white-striped bodypainting practiced by indigenous communities mimics zebra stripes to reduce the number of potentially harmful horsefly bites a person receives by up to 10-fold, according to new research published Wednesday.
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#1291542021-06-08
'Zombie frog' discovered: 3 new species described from the narrow-mouthed frog family
Together with an international team, Senckenberg scientists have described three new frog species from the northern Amazon region. The animals from the genus Synapturanus spend their lives buried underground and are therefore still virtually unexplored.
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#1285292021-05-11
1.5°C degrowth scenarios suggest need for new mitigation pathways: Research
The first comprehensive comparison of 'degrowth' scenarios with established pathways to limit climate change highlights the risk of over-reliance on carbon dioxide removal, renewable energy and energy efficiency to support continued global growth - which is assumed in established global climate ...
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#1339652022-04-11
10 Women Scientists Leading the Fight Against the Climate Crisis
Climate change is an issue that affects everyone on the planet but women and girls are the ones suffering its effects the most. Why? Because women and girls have less access to quality education and later, job opportunities. These structural disadvantages keep them in poverty. In fact, women mak ...
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#1273632021-02-25
10-year battle of sea urchins vs. invasive seaweed
The first hatchery-raised sea urchins outplanted in Kāneʻohe Bay are 10-years-old, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit (PCSU) and the State of Hawaiʻi Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) are celebrating the milestone anniversary.
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#1252742020-04-28
100 Questions to Prevent Biodiversity Loss in Southeast Asia
What species and ecosystems are most likely to be adversely affected by climate change, and why? What are the impacts of international trade on fisheries and marine biodiversity loss? How should urban development be handled so that its impacts on biodiversity are minimized?
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#1261772020-12-11
1300 species, 2400 genes, 21 museums, and 40 years
Tropical regions contain many of the world's species and scientists consider them hotspots due to their immense biological diversity.However, due to limited sampling our knowledge of tropical diversity remains incomplete, making it difficult for researchers to answer the fundamental questions of ...
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#1266032021-01-14
150-million-year-old shark was one of the largest of its time
In a new study, an international research team led by Sebastian Stumpf from the University of Vienna describes an exceptionally well-preserved skeleton of the ancient shark Asteracanthus. This extremely rare fossil find comes from the famous Solnhofen limestones in Bavaria, which was formed in a ...
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#525515th Annual BIOECON Conference Conservation and Development: Exploring Conflicts and Challenges
18 - 20 September 2013, Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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#1304502021-09-15
18 of 20 gorillas at Atlanta's zoo have contracted COVID
At least 18 of the 20 gorillas at Atlanta's zoo have now tested positive for COVID-19, an outbreak that began just days before the zoo had hoped to obtain a veterinary vaccine for the primates, officials said Tuesday.
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#1332322022-02-15
2 flowering plants in Antarctica are growing at an unprecedented speed, a rare spectacle showing a 'tipping point' of the climate crisis, study says
Two flowering plants have been multiplying rapidly in Antarctica as the climate crisis has warmed the summers, a study found.
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#1225242019-10-04
20 Times When Animals Shaped Our Modern World
Imitation is the most sincere of flattery, and for years, humans have been using animals as inspiration for everything from fashion to architecture. In the engineering world, this is called biomimicry. And you may be surprised by how many inventions have truly been inspired by animal design and ...
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#631526th meeting of the Plants Committee (CITES-PC26)
5 - 9 June 2023, Geneva, Switzerland
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#1302792021-09-03
290-million-year-old shark with large petal-shaped teeth found in China for the first time
The fossil of a 290-million-year-old shark with petal-shaped teeth was found in China for the first time, according to Gai Zhikun, an associate researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Petalodus teeth were found i ...
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#1260452020-12-07
3 billion animals impacted by fires, including 60,000 koalas
Estimates some 3 billion animals were killed or misplaced by the 2019-20 mega-fires in Australia have been confirmed—with a breakdown by animal type for the first time—in a conclusive Sydney-led report commissioned by WWF.