Fewer climbers tackled Mount Fuji during this year's hiking season, preliminary figures show, after Japanese authorities introduced an entry fee and a daily cap on numbers to fight overtourism.
Environment
Sep 11, 2024
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With overtourism in the spotlight as the travel industry continues to rebound after the pandemic, popular destinations around the world are feeling the strain.
Social Sciences
Sep 10, 2024
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A team of water technicians at water testing company SimpleLab has tested chemical levels in hundreds of water samples collected from bottles, household taps and treated tap water in the San Francisco Bay area. Their paper ...
Many seafood products sold in New Zealand make environmental claims, but our new research shows most of them are too ambiguous and may serve as greenwashing.
Agriculture
Sep 5, 2024
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Every day, people die waiting for an organ transplant. Time is at a premium, not just for those awaiting organs, but also for the organs themselves, which can deteriorate rapidly during transportation.
Bio & Medicine
Sep 4, 2024
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A research team led by Prof. Seo Byeong-Chang of the Department of Brain Sciences at DGIST has made the world's first discovery of how proton-activated chloride (PAC) channels—which play an important role in protecting ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 3, 2024
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Winter has ended dramatically across Australia's southern states, as fierce winds and storms usher in spring.
Environment
Sep 2, 2024
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DNA damage is a cellular phenomenon that introduces structural abnormalities in double-stranded DNA. External factors, such as radiation or chemical agents, as well as internal factors, such as blocked DNA replication, can ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2024
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Enrico Fermi's lunchtime question at wartime Los Alamos, "Where is everybody?" has been both a gift and a problem to scientists ever since. Known as "Fermi's Paradox," it simply asks, why, since life on Earth is ubiquitous ...
Eight years since the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, researchers have highlighted ongoing environmental and social devastation caused by the disaster.
Environment
Aug 22, 2024
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