Ancestors of a distinctive pollinating bee found across Australia probably originated in tropical Asian countries, islands in the south-west Pacific or greater Oceania region, ecology researchers claim.
Plants & Animals
Jun 26, 2020
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It is well known that agriculture developed independently in New Guinea 7000 years ago, but evidence of its influence on how people lived has eluded scientists—until now.
Archaeology
Mar 26, 2020
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The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that without a substantial decrease in our use of fossil fuels, we are on track for a global average increase of 2°C in the next few decades, ...
Environment
Feb 25, 2020
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Planned hydropower dams will greatly increase threats for freshwater fish species because of habitat fragmentation, especially in the tropics. This was already suspected, but environmental researchers at Radboud University, ...
Ecology
Feb 3, 2020
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One of the largest living birds, the Southern Cassowary, has a simple throat structure similar to the fellow Australian emu. Now new research confirms a common link between the cassowary and small flighted South American ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2020
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In 2006, University of Virginia anthropologist Lise Dobrin received a document attached to an email from a man she knew in Papua New Guinea, where she had conducted fieldwork for her dissertation several years earlier. The ...
Social Sciences
Jan 10, 2020
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New research has found that positive community action can boost fish numbers in coral reefs and safeguard fish numbers there in the future.
Ecology
Dec 19, 2019
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An innovative Australian government funded development program, operating in the borderlands between Australia and Papua New Guinea, has established a local toilet manufacturing business that is both improving sanitation ...
Environment
Nov 20, 2019
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Coral species richness at different depths is unrelated to energy availability, according to a new study analysing diversity across an Australasian reef.
Ecology
Oct 29, 2019
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Papua New Guinea said Thursday it had ordered the indefinite closure of a multi-billion dollar Chinese-owned nickel facility that spewed potentially toxic red slurry into the sea.
Environment
Oct 24, 2019
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