The animal collections housed at zoos and natural history museums—living specimens in the first case, preserved in the other—constitute an exhaustive trove of information about Earth's biodiversity. Yet, zoos and museums ...
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Apr 21, 2022
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Efforts to mitigate the potentially harmful effects of fracking have traditionally been divided along two fronts—those that primarily focus on protecting the environment and wildlife, and those that focus on protecting ...
Environment
Mar 30, 2022
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A new study has found that costs of conservation projects are rarely reported, making it difficult for others to make decisions on the most cost-effective interventions at a time when funding for biodiversity conservation ...
Ecology
Mar 23, 2022
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The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Nagoya Protocol (NP) are multilateral agreements aimed at conserving biodiversity, promoting sustainable use of biological components, and facilitating the equitable sharing ...
Education
Mar 16, 2022
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The positive effects of scientist engagement with the general public are well documented, but most investigations have focused on the benefits to the public rather than on those performing engagement activities. Writing in ...
Social Sciences
Feb 23, 2022
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Having a solid estimate of the amount of carbon that forests can pull from the atmosphere is essential for global accounting of climate change—leaders are counting on forests to pull a good chunk of human-produced carbon ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2022
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As a major source of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, food production has long occupied an important place in the climate-change discussion. Writing in BioScience, Alice Jones of the University of Adelaide, and an international ...
Environment
Jan 25, 2022
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While numerous studies have described the funding discrepancies faced by scientists at minority-serving institutions (MSIs), there is a relative paucity of information available about MSI-based scientists' participation in ...
Social Sciences
Jan 5, 2022
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Mountain spring water is often touted as the cleanest water you can drink. But a new study from the University of Georgia revealed this isn't the case.
Earth Sciences
Dec 20, 2021
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The task of training an effective cadre of biodiversity scientists has grown more challenging in recent years, as foundational skills and knowledge in organismal biology have increasingly required complementary data skills ...
Education
Dec 8, 2021
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