Barges carrying mounds of coal toward St. Louis passed by Starved Rock at a snail's pace, inching past yellow-orange trees and sandstone canyons. A bald eagle hovered above a path leading hikers toward Lover's Leap. Near ...
Ecology
Nov 19, 2021
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A new way to detect early signs of harmful blue-green algae, which bloom in lakes, rivers and reservoirs around the world, has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham together with researchers at the ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 19, 2021
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Leading a double life in water and on land, frogs have many breathing techniques—through the gills, lungs, and skin—over the course of their lifetime. Now German scientists have developed another method that allows tadpoles ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 13, 2021
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Certain invasive, non-native species can disrupt lakes to the point of rapid ecosystem collapse, contaminating water for drinking, aquaculture and recreation, a new study has found.
Ecology
Oct 7, 2021
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Scientists have developed an environmentally-friendly way of boosting the production and heat stability of a natural blue coloring.
Materials Science
Sep 8, 2021
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An exceptionally large coral—a structure made up of small marine animals and calcium carbonate—discovered in the Great Barrier Reef is described in Scientific Reports this week. It is the widest and sixth tallest coral ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 19, 2021
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Oxygen-producing bacteria emerged a thousand millions years before the great oxygenation event approximately 2400 million years ago, scientists have found.
Evolution
Aug 18, 2021
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In order to feed a projected 9 billion people by 2050, farmers need to grow 50% more food on a limited amount of arable land. As a result, plant scientists are in a race against time to engineer crops with higher yields by ...
Biotechnology
Aug 13, 2021
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A potentially toxic seaweed originally found off Japan has colonised a stretch of the Mediterranean coast near Marseille that is home to one of France's most popular natural attractions.
Ecology
Jun 25, 2021
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Over the last 30 years, urbanization has increased along the Indian River Lagoon, which stretches about 250 kilometers on Florida's east coast. As a result, water quality has deteriorated and there is widespread loss of seagrasses ...
Environment
Jun 25, 2021
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