In an article published in the journal Ecography, a group of Brazilian researchers reports the results of a review of the scientific literature on reptiles published between 1960 and 2021, considering the more than 11,000 ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2023
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Tree rings are record books of annual growth, and the width of each ring is correlated to that year's environmental conditions. In a new study, Cameron Lee and Matthew Dannenberg use machine learning to demonstrate that ring ...
Ecology
Mar 29, 2023
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Criticizing the Biden administration's $3.5 trillion Inflation Reduction Act, a U.S. Senate candidate in Georgia singled out funding to plant and protect trees.
Environment
Mar 29, 2023
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A team of botanists from Ecuador, Germany, and the United States has described two new species of carnivorous plants with striking appearance. They are part of the butterworts (genus Pinguicula), a group of flowering plants ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 27, 2023
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The warm Arctic-cold Eurasia (WACE) climate pattern is the main feature of winter temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 20 years. Extreme cold events related to this pattern have occurred frequently there.
Environment
Mar 22, 2023
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A lake that dried up 80 years ago looked set on Tuesday to reappear, as monster rainfall accumulated over California's wet winter season overwhelms the state's rivers.
Environment
Mar 22, 2023
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The upper range limits of tree species are extremely sensitive to climate change, and global climate warming has already had profound effects on the recruitment dynamics of alpine treelines worldwide. Previous studies have ...
Environment
Mar 20, 2023
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Spring has sprung!
Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2023
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Smoke from monster wildfires in Australia caused a chemical reaction that widened the ozone hole 10 percent, researchers said Wednesday, raising fears that increasing forest fires could delay the recovery of Earth's atmospheric ...
Environment
Mar 11, 2023
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A team of climate scientists from France, Russia and Germany has found that ancient viruses dormant for tens of thousands of years in permafrost can infect modern amoeba when they are revived. For their study, reported on ...
