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Environment Aug 14, 2024

Planetary health diet adoption would reduce emissions by 17%, environmental scientists suggest

A report by a multi-institutional team of environmental scientists suggests that if everyone in the world adopted the EAT-Lancet planetary health diet, global dietary greenhouse gas emissions would drop by 17%.

Ecology Aug 14, 2024

Earth's oldest, tiniest creatures are poised to be climate change winners—and the repercussions could be huge

The world's oceans are home to microscopic organisms invisible to the human eye. The tiny creatures, known as "prokaryotes," comprise 30% of life in the world's oceans.

Evolution Aug 14, 2024

International team sequence the world's largest animal genome: Data help explain tetrapod evolution

Join us as we travel back in time. We have arrived in the Devonian period, some 420 to 360 million years ago. In a shallow area near the water's edge, something happened that would forever change life on our planet: a fish ...

Plants & Animals Aug 14, 2024

Fish in Greenland consume more jellyfish than previously assumed, researchers discover

For a long time, scientists assumed that jellyfish were a dead-end food source for predatory fish. However, a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute together with the Thünen Institute has now discovered that fish in Greenland ...

Ecology Aug 14, 2024

Historic map reveals how mussel farm is bringing shellfish reefs back to the seabed

The UK's first large scale offshore mussel farm is allowing shellfish reefs to return to parts of the seabed off England's south coast for the first time in up to 150 years, a new study has revealed.

Plants & Animals Aug 13, 2024

Scientists cook up a plan to save freshwater crocodiles from toxic cane toads

Scientists from Macquarie University working with Bunuba Indigenous rangers and the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) in Western Australia have trialed a new way to protect freshwater crocodiles ...

Environment Aug 13, 2024

Mediterranean Sea temperatures match 2023 records

The temperatures of the Mediterranean Sea in recent days have reached heat records set last summer, the main Spanish maritime research center told AFP Tuesday, with marine heat waves in some places exceeding 30 degrees Celsius.

Nanomaterials Aug 13, 2024

Scientists achieve rapid upcycling of microplastics to graphene

James Cook University researchers have achieved a significant breakthrough that allows them to convert microplastics to a highly valuable material. The study is published in the journal Small Science.

Plants & Animals Aug 13, 2024

At its core, life is all about play—just look at the animal kingdom

At Cambridge University Library, along with all the books, maps and manuscripts, there's a child's drawing that curators have titled "The Battle of the Fruit and Vegetable Soldiers."

Plants & Animals Aug 13, 2024

The plight of the pig-nosed turtle, one of the unlucky 13 added to Australia's threatened species list

Australia's unique biodiversity is under siege. The national list of species threatened with extinction is growing, with eight animals and five plants added just last month.

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