New Zealand targets cow burps to help reduce global warming
How do you stop a cow from burping?
Environment
Nov 14, 2022
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News tagged with selective breeding
Using genetics to support sustainable aquaculture: Results from 20 years of breeding rainbow trout
The world's oceans can no longer sustain the ever-rising demand for fish. Aquaculture offers an alternative approach—if production is sustainable and high quality. INRAE, the Aqualande group and its selective breeding company ...
Ecology
Oct 13, 2022
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Sex and power in the animal kingdom: Seven animals that will make you reconsider what you think you know
It's easy to assume all animals have a neat dividing line between the sexes because the differences in appearance between males and females can be so striking. But the more scientists learn about wildlife, the clearer it ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2022
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Genomic analysis reveals true origin of South America's canids
South America has more canid species than any place on Earth, and a surprising new UCLA-led genomic analysis shows that all these doglike animals evolved from a single species that entered the continent just 3.5 million to ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 19, 2022
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Crops grown together cooperate better in just two generations
Growing multiple food crops together is a more sustainable farming practice mimicking highly productive wild plant communities. This process, known as intercropping, takes advantage of complementary features of different ...
Ecology
Sep 13, 2022
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How to make kelp aquaculture a better carbon sink
Cost-effective carbon dioxide removal technologies play a key role in combating climate change. A team of researchers at the University of Maine in collaboration with Conscience Bay Research have developed a kelp aquaculture ...
Biotechnology
Sep 13, 2022
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Explaining genetic modification research
What do bananas and cavoodles have in common? They're both lovely, yellowy and have been produced by genetic manipulation.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 30, 2022
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A strong-eyed style: What makes Australian muster dogs unique
The recent ABC TV series Muster Dogs has brought into sharp focus the incredible skills of our working stock dogs.
Veterinary medicine
Feb 22, 2022
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Darwin in a lab: Coral evolution tweaked for global warming
On a moonless summer night in Hawaii, krill, fish and crabs swirl through a beam of light as two researchers peer into the water above a vibrant reef.
Evolution
Dec 9, 2021
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Can selective breeding of 'super kelp' save our cold water reefs from hotter seas?
Australia's vital kelp forests are disappearing in many areas as our waters warm and our climate changes.
Ecology
Nov 3, 2021
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