Colony declines are a major threat to the world's honey bees, as well as the many wild plants and crops the bees pollinate. Among the lineup of possible culprits—including parasites, disease, climate stress and malnutrition—many ...
Ecology
Mar 18, 2015
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The most extensive land-based study of the Amazon to date reveals it is losing its capacity to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. From a peak of two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide each year in the 1990s, the net uptake ...
Environment
Mar 18, 2015
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Scientists have resolved pieces of a nearly 200-year-old evolutionary puzzle surrounding the group of mammals that Charles Darwin called the "strangest animals ever discovered." New research led by the American Museum of ...
Archaeology
Mar 18, 2015
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T-Mobile wants to change how businesses buy phones and wireless services—two years after it changed how consumers do so.
Telecom
Mar 18, 2015
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There are more ways to watch television online than ever. Even HBO and ESPN—two channels often cited as reasons people keep expensive cable or satellite TV packages—will be available for streaming on their own. All these ...
Telecom
Mar 18, 2015
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Federal records show that this winter and the first two months of 2015 were the hottest on record globally, with a chilly U.S. East sticking out like a cold thumb in a toastier world.
Environment
Mar 18, 2015
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The British government said Wednesday it was opening talks on plans to build the world's first man-made tidal lagoon in Wales to generate green energy.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 18, 2015
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A quarter of the dogs taken in by one California animal shelter look like Chihuahuas. So how do you make a pet stand out when it's similar to so many other dogs at the shelter? Check the DNA.
Plants & Animals
Mar 18, 2015
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Sony announced Wednesday it was launching an Internet subscription television service that includes live feeds from major broadcast networks, mounting a challenge to the cable TV model.
Telecom
Mar 18, 2015
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Tropical Cyclone Bavi weakened to a depression and NASA's RapidScat instrument measured its waning winds from space.
Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2015
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