Inadequate pollination has led to a 3-5% loss of fruit, vegetable, and nut production and an estimated 427,000 excess deaths annually from lost healthy food consumption and associated diseases, including heart disease, stroke, ...
Ecology
Dec 14, 2022
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Often we simply do not know enough about a species to know how it is doing. On the recognized red list from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), thousands of plants and animals are listed as "data deficient."
Plants & Animals
Nov 1, 2022
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A team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Duke University and other institutions studying Sphagnum moss have identified two new species in North America, and they are learning how evolution may affect the species' role in ...
Evolution
Oct 4, 2022
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A new study by a research team from Arizona State University has found that climate change will dramatically increase the intensity of locust swarms, resulting in even more crops lost to insect pests and threatening food ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2022
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Anthropogenic climate change has a significant impact on the geographical distribution and phenology of species. Apis laboriosa and Apis dorsata are two species of giant honeybees distributed in Asia and play important roles ...
Ecology
Sep 19, 2022
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For years, scientists and online databases presumed the presence of clubroot—one of the main diseases on cruciferous crops (such as broccoli, cabbage, and kale)—in Mexico. However, no evidence to support this supposition ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 12, 2022
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Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers have discovered thousands of new ant species in the monsoonal tropics, showing ant populations in Northern Australia are some of the world's most diverse.
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2022
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Three new species of black-bellied salamander have been discovered by a research team led by R. Alexander Pyron, the Robert F. Griggs Associate Professor of Biology at the George Washington University. The new salamanders, ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 19, 2022
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Research from the University of Sydney, led by Professor Joel Negin from the School of Public Health, set out to describe the burden, geographic distribution, and outcomes of firearm-related violence in New South Wales during ...
Social Sciences
Sep 27, 2021
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The mid-Proterozoic (1.85-0.85 Ga), considered the 'boring billion', was a critical time for early evolution of eukaryotic organisms.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 13, 2021
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