Europeans make love but not babies, says demography expert
As Europe's population ages, understanding the causes of declining birth rates becomes more important.
As Europe's population ages, understanding the causes of declining birth rates becomes more important.
Social Sciences
Jul 29, 2023
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The impact of climate change on Ireland's nature is outlined in new research by University College Cork (UCC). Rare native plant species will go extinct and non-native sika deer will increase across Ireland, the researchers ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2023
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To understand the effects of environmental changes on seabird populations, long-term studies are essential but rare. Biologists from Germany, Poland and Argentina have compiled data on the population dynamics and breeding ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 7, 2023
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A study published in the journal Bird Conservation International warns of a decline of more than 66% in the population of the Dupont's lark (Chersophilus duponti) after the storm Filomena. This meteorological phenomenon was ...
Plants & Animals
May 8, 2023
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Increasing either temperature or nutrients can hurt ecosystems by destabilizing food webs, which are all of the interconnected food chains that make communities behave the way they do. When temperature and nutrients increase ...
Ecology
Apr 26, 2023
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Each year approximately 10 million waterfowl fly north to their breeding grounds in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America, but the landscape that greets them has changed. Weather patterns and agricultural practices ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2023
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As business ventures grow, they must navigate the opportunities and challenges presented by environmental changes. In a new study, researchers have examined the interplay of environmental change and the internal and external ...
Economics & Business
Apr 10, 2023
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The atmospheric level of carbon dioxide—a gas that is great at trapping heat, contributing to climate change—is almost double what it was prior to the Industrial Revolution, yet it only constitutes 0.0415% of the air ...
Environment
Feb 9, 2023
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It's hard for most people to imagine six feet of snow in one storm, like the Buffalo area saw over the weekend, but such extreme snowfall events occasionally happen along the eastern edges of the Great Lakes.
Earth Sciences
Nov 21, 2022
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At first glance, the connections between the world's growing population and climate change seem obvious. The more people we have on this planet, the larger their collective impact on the climate.
Environment
Nov 3, 2022
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