A vital nutrient underpinning the world's food systems—and increasingly vital to green technologies—is the focus of a major international summit in Ghana this September, as scientists, policymakers and industry leaders meet ...
Agriculture
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The Great Barrier Reef has experienced the largest annual decline in coral cover in two of the three regions since AIMS began monitoring 39 years ago. This was predominantly driven by climate change-induced heat stress leading ...
Ecology
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Climate change is not new: temperatures have been rising for decades as a result of global warming. In South Africa's city of Pietermaritzburg, four low-income urban communities have experienced drought, heat waves, severe ...
Social Sciences
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It might be humbling to consider, but cockroaches and people have more in common than we knew.
Plants & Animals
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Cornell food scientists have created a natural blue food dye made of algae protein that could replace petroleum-based artificial food colorants with a stable, adaptable option.
Biochemistry
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Galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in our universe, consisting of hundreds or thousands of galaxies that have become gravitationally bound together over billions of years. Astrophysicists have long been eager ...
Astronomy
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A team of chemists is pioneering a new approach to creating plastics made from whole-cell algae and common chemical components. These biohybrid plastics are strong, highly adaptable, and fully recyclable.
Biochemistry
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Because their relative isolation encourages speciation, oceanic islands are hotspots of biodiversity. Yet their relatively small size, atypically defenseless animals and plants, and ecological vulnerability to the effects ...
Plants & Animals
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Concern over pollution and its impact on weather patterns continues to increase—but what if severe weather events are also impacting pollution?
Environment
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A pair of Idaho State University researchers are part of a group of more than 30 scientists who've found the culprit responsible for the death of newly hatched fish in an endangered salmon run. The perp: anchovy.
Plants & Animals
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