Tropical reforestation is an important part of the global effort to mitigate climate change, but ecologist Karen Holl says current international goals may be overly ambitious.
Environment
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An international team of astronomers has observed a striking spiral pattern in the gas surrounding a red giant star named LL Pegasi and its companion star 3,400 light-years from Earth, using a powerful telescope in northern ...
Astronomy
Mar 17, 2017
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Don't assume that a grass fire has damaged the barbed wire on a fence.
Ecology
Mar 17, 2017
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Image-curation website Pinterest has become the latest social media service blocked in China, checks on censorship monitoring websites indicated Friday.
Internet
Mar 17, 2017
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A Mississippi-based Agricultural Research Service (ARS) researcher has learned that using poultry litter as fertilizer can help cotton growers in the Southeast maximize profits.
Environment
Mar 17, 2017
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This image of the lava flowing from Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, was captured today at 10:45 GMT (11:45 CET) by the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite.
Space Exploration
Mar 17, 2017
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For decades, the tiny roundworm C. elegans has been a vital tool in the biomedical researcher's toolkit, proving central to groundbreaking discoveries such as green fluorescent protein, the molecular marker used universally ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 17, 2017
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Without nature, humans could be neither healthy nor happy. And yet the natural world can be completely ransacked without causing even a tiny blip on our usual measures of economic progress or poverty.
Environment
Mar 17, 2017
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Demanding electric, magnetic and power requirements, harsh radiation, and strict planetary protection rules are some of the critical issues that had to be tackled in order to move ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – Juice ...
Space Exploration
Mar 17, 2017
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Research published in European Education examines how policies that are meant to help encourage inclusion of communities can in fact achieve the opposite.
Social Sciences
Mar 17, 2017
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