When winds lift dust off the ground, attached bacteria go along for the ride. These airborne bacteria make up aerobiomes, which, when the dust settles again, can alter environmental chemistry and affect human and animal health, ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 22, 2022
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Commercial hemp is currently experiencing a revival due to its many applications. Commercial hemp varieties contain only small amounts of psychoactive (intoxicating) cannabinoids, which include Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC). ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 15, 2022
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Social connections are essential for good health and well-being in social animals, such as ourselves and other primates. There is also increasing evidence that the gut microbiome—through the so-called "gut-brain axis"—plays ...
Ecology
Nov 11, 2022
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New research published in The Lancet Planetary Health has identified a lack of appropriate control tools for many infectious diseases of animals that can have a significant impact upon the UN Sustainable Development Goals ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 5, 2022
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Wildlife agencies in the U.S. are finding elevated levels of a class of toxic chemicals in game animals such as deer—and that's prompting health advisories in some places where hunting and fishing are ways of life and key ...
Environment
Oct 5, 2022
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Biologists from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have discovered in Hong Kong waters three new species of hard coral which have never been identified anywhere else in the world. The findings come shortly after their discovery ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 7, 2022
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Historic virus infections can be traced in vertebrate genomes. For millions of years, these genomes have been repositories for retroviruses that incorporated their code into germline cells and were inherited as endogenous ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2022
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As the earth's climate continues to warm, researchers predict wild animals will be forced to relocate their habitats—likely to regions with large human populations—dramatically increasing the risk of a viral jump to humans ...
Ecology
Apr 28, 2022
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Typically when people hear about plastic pollution, they might envision seabirds with bellies full of trash or sea turtles with plastic straws in their noses. However, plastic pollution poses another threat that's invisible ...
Environment
Apr 27, 2022
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An international research team led by scientists at Georgetown University has found that humans might give viruses back to animals more often than previously understood.
Ecology
Mar 23, 2022
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