Sea ice algae on which Arctic animals rely under threat from climate change
Sea ice algae is an essential resource for the survival of many species living in the Arctic.
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Top predators play an important role in human-dominated ecosystems
Large carnivores such as brown bears or wolves—so-called top predators—play a crucial role in the regulation of wildlife populations even in human-dominated ecosystems. This is the result of a joint study by scientists ...
Ecology
Apr 12, 2016
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Starved, stuffed and squandered: Consequences of decades of global nutrition transition
The availability of food is unevenly distributed on a global basis. This gap is likely to worsen, while food waste will increase and pressure on the environment will rise, according to a new study. Researchers from the Potsdam ...
Social Sciences
Nov 18, 2020
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Low-allergen soybean could have high impact
In the United States, nearly 15 million people and 1 in 13 children suffer from food allergy. In Arizona alone, every classroom contains at least two children with a food allergy.
Biotechnology
May 4, 2015
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Elephants may use trunks like 'leaf blowers' to obtain inaccessible food
Two captive elephants blast air through their trunks to grasp hard-to-reach food, suggests an initial study published today in Springer's journal Animal Cognition. This behaviour, studied in a zoo population of Asian elephants ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 5, 2015
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Blue and great tits deploy surprisingly powerful memories to find food, finds study
Blue and great tits recall what they have eaten in the past, where they found the food and when they found it, a new study shows. In the first experiment of its kind to involve wild animals, blue and great tits demonstrated ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 3, 2024
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Iron availability in seawater, key to explaining the amount and distribution of fish
People tend to pay more attention to how much food they are eating than to how rich their diet is in essential micronutrients like iron. However, if we do not get enough iron, we can become anemic, which leaves us sluggish ...
Evolution
Oct 24, 2019
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Slimming and greening the Chinese food system
On August 29, 2022, a research team led by Prof. Wang Xiaoxi from the China Academy for Rural Development and School of Public Affairs of Zhejiang University, and Prof. Yuan Changzheng from the School of Public Health of ...
Environment
Nov 2, 2022
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The UK is increasingly outsourcing the environmental impacts of its food supply
A new study from researchers at the University of Aberdeen, the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, the James Hutton Institute, and the Alpen-Adria University in Vienna, shows that the UK's food self-sufficiency has ...
Environment
Jan 7, 2016
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When social interaction helps you choose your food
How do we choose our food? By studying the neurobiological mechanisms involved in food choices of rodents, neuroscientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have identified the important and lasting influence ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 7, 2019
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