Hunting toxic chemicals in the Arctic
At first, it was a simple question: what exactly did oil pollution do to gray seals off the coast of Norway?
Ecology
Mar 31, 2022
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News tagged with diet
Scientists figure out how vampire bats got a taste for blood
Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on a diet of just blood.
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2022
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Parental sugar intake has profound effects on offspring health in fruit flies
A new study led by Monash University biologists has challenged the traditional thinking around parental sugar intake and offspring fitness with some unexpected results.
Plants & Animals
Mar 14, 2022
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Correlation between varied agricultural production and women's dietary diversity
A study by researchers from CIRAD, IRD and the Tunisian National Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INNTA) revealed systematic positive correlations positives between the diversity of farm products and that of the ...
Agriculture
Feb 24, 2022
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Study sheds light on how climate has driven 7,000 years of dietary changes
What a person eats influences that person's health, longevity and experience in the world. Identifying the factors that determine people's diets is important to answer the bigger questions, such as how changing climates will ...
Archaeology
Feb 8, 2022
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Overweight dogs respond well to high-protein, high-fiber diet
A study of overweight dogs fed a reduced calorie, high-protein, high-fiber diet for 24 weeks found that the dogs' body composition and inflammatory markers changed over time in ways that parallel the positive changes seen ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2022
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Gene loss due to one-sided diet: Evolutionary adaptation could be dangerous for predators
A team of scientists from the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, the LOEWE Center for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (TBG), and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research investigated whether evolutionary ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 20, 2022
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High protein diet may harm polar bears
A high protein diet appears linked to kidney disease and shortened lifespans for captive polar bears, a relationship similarly suspected in humans, according to a review led by Washington State University wildlife biologist ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 19, 2022
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Microbiome differences between night owls and morning people suggest dietary changes
A collaborative research project between the University of Haifa and the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology has found that "morning people" and "night people" differ from each other in their gut microbiome—the bacterial ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 3, 2022
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Meat-eating causes 75,000 Chinese deaths a year through pollution
Dietary shifts towards eating more meat causes 75,000 premature deaths a year in China through air pollution, a study shows.
Environment
Dec 16, 2021
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