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Are gone-wild grapevines a danger to viticulture?
Flavescence dorée, a dreaded grapevine disease among winegrowers, is spreading beyond cultivated vineyards. A joint study by the federal research institute WSL and Agroscope published in the Journal of Plant Biology shows ...
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Fish in the world's hottest reef ecosystem show greater thermal tolerance but lower biodiversity
Researchers at the Mubadala Arabian Center for Climate and Environmental Sciences (Mubadala ACCESS) at NYU Abu Dhabi have found that reef fish from the Arabian Gulf, the world's hottest sea, exhibit a higher tolerance to ...
Plants & Animals
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Tropical forests in the Americas are struggling to keep pace with climate change, study reveals
Tropical rainforests play a vital role in global climate regulation and biodiversity conservation. However, a major new study published in Science reveals that forests across the Americas are not adapting quickly enough to ...
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Large-scale analysis reveals 20% of butterflies in the US have disappeared since 2000
Butterflies are beloved creatures that inspire art and play an important ecological role, but according to new research featuring faculty members at Binghamton University, State University of New York, these cherished insects ...
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Sticky situation? Insights into what holds antibiotic-resistant biofilms together
Biofilms, ubiquitous bacterial communities embedded in a slimy matrix, are the oldest form of multicellularity on Earth; they are extremely resistant to antibiotics and stick tenaciously to most surfaces, including living ...
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Ghana needs more young farmers, but does climate change put them off? Study shows surprising results
Ghana has a high youth unemployment rate of up to 13.9%. For those young Ghanaians who do have jobs, more than 50% are underemployed—working in jobs that are low paid or that don't allow them to use all their skills or ...
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A lifeline for pollinators? Team develops irresistible crops
According to several scientific studies, three-quarters of all insects have disappeared in the last 30 years. To counter this decline, scientists from 13 countries are collaborating on a new approach within the AGRI4POL project. ...
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The yucca and the moth: How extreme weather impacts the timing of biological events
Whether it is flowers sprouting in the spring, cicadas mating in the blistering heat of summer, or caterpillars hatching to feed on their favorite host plant, across the natural world, the timing of biological events is so ...
Plants & Animals
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100-plus sharks tagged off Cape Cod detected along Maine
Cape Cod isn't the only spot in New England where great white sharks like to feast on seals.
Plants & Animals
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How a turf war between lizards in Florida impacts mosquitoes and maybe human health
Mosquitoes might be the bane of a summer barbecue in Kendall or a stroll on Miami Beach, but researchers in Florida are now also looking at the insects' more obscure targets—and how even a tiny, orange-flapped lizard could ...
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Pledge to phase out toxic lead ammunition in UK hunting by 2025 has failed, analysis finds
A voluntary pledge made by UK shooting organizations in 2020 to replace lead shot with non-toxic alternatives by 2025 has failed, analysis by Cambridge researchers finds.
Plants & Animals
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Tiny sea slug could have a big impact on successful coastal conservation efforts
As climate change accelerates, finding effective solutions that deliver outsized impact becomes increasingly crucial. Now, new research from Chapman University shows that a tiny marine mollusk native to the U.S. West Coast ...
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Researchers find that caribou migration patterns are shrinking
Decades of data following the migratory patterns of endangered caribou show that migration areas have decreased significantly. Researchers are concerned that resource extraction is disturbing caribou habitats.
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2025
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Creating the optimal pond for amphibians: Research identifies key factors
Amphibians are land animals, but can only reproduce in water. They prefer to live in and around small bodies of water. But this habitat is becoming increasingly rare—in Germany alone, more than half of this type of body ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2025
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Fifty years of songbird maps take flight in new hands
Miranda Zammarelli, Guarini, was a graduate student at Dartmouth for just nine days when her interests in birds, history, and archives converged in a set of old filing cabinets in New Hampshire's White Mountains.
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2025
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Monkey business: Sri Lanka to count crop-raiding nuisance wildlife
Sri Lanka will launch a nationwide census of nuisance wildlife, including monkeys and peacocks, as part of an effort to tackle the increasing threat to agriculture, the government said Wednesday.
Ecology
Mar 5, 2025
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Guinea baboons possess information about the skillfulness of others and use it strategically to their advantage
A research team led by William O'Hearn from the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research has found that female Guinea baboons court males more intensively when they show special foraging abilities. Two ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2025
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Why some animals defy the odds to thrive in urban areas
Cities can be deeply unwelcoming places for wildlife. They are noisy, difficult to get around, full of people and heavily reliant on artificial lighting. Yet some species do better in urban areas than in rural ones.
Ecology
Mar 5, 2025
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Madagascar's lemurs live with the threat of cyclones. Has this shaped their behavior?
Madagascar is an island that's no stranger to natural disasters, in particular cyclones. This is because it's located in the south-west Indian Ocean cyclone basin, a region of the Indian Ocean where tropical cyclones typically ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2025
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Satellite image analysis delivers new insight into the functional diversity of tropical forests
Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and surprising results.
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2025
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