Many of the world's largest aquatic food producers are highly vulnerable to human-induced environmental change, with some of the highest-risk countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa demonstrating the lowest capacity for ...
Ecology
Jun 26, 2023
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It has long been known that ship strikes involving large vessels pose one of the greatest threats to North Atlantic right whales, whose coastal habitats and tendency to stay close to the water's surface make them vulnerable ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 27, 2020
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How we farm can guard against climate change and protect critical wildlife—but only if we leave single-crop farms in the dust, according to a new Stanford study.
Ecology
Mar 18, 2020
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Sorghum crops in areas where the agricultural parasite striga, also known as witchweed, is common are more likely to have genetic adaptations to help them resist the parasite, according to new research led by Penn State scientists. ...
Biotechnology
Feb 12, 2020
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A mother sperm whale and its baby have died after becoming tangled in a fishing net in the Tyrrhenian Sea off Italy's western coast, an Italian environmental group has reported.
Ecology
Jun 20, 2019
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New research has found that habitat loss is a major concern for hundreds of Australian bird species, and southeastern Australia has been the worst affected.
Plants & Animals
Sep 3, 2019
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It was a nightmare fire season that California won't soon forget.
Earth Sciences
Jun 20, 2022
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Researchers generated induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and cerebral organoids from the last male Malaysian Sumatran rhino, according to a study published in the journal iScience on October 20. As noted by the authors, ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 9, 2022
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University of Portsmouth researchers have found a naturally occurring compound, known as hydroquinine, has bacterial killing activity against several microorganisms.
Biochemistry
Aug 31, 2022
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Researchers Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccines.
Other
Oct 2, 2023
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