Following bans on plastic microbeads in wash-off cosmetics, a new study weighs up the environmental costs of alternatives.
Environment
Dec 14, 2020
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There would be at least four times as many flightless bird species on Earth today if it were not for human influences, finds a study led by UCL researchers.The study, published in Science Advances, finds that flightlessness ...
Evolution
Dec 02, 2020
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Humans may have reached the Americas over 30,000 years ago, new research from international teams of scientists shows—a period 15,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Archaeology
Jul 23, 2020
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In 2015, Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich coauthored a study declaring the world's sixth mass extinction was underway. Five years later, Ehrlich and colleagues at other institutions have a grim update: the extinction rate ...
Ecology
Jun 01, 2020
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For the first time, scientists have unraveled genetic changes that cause rapid fish evolution due to intense harvesting—changes that previously had been invisible to researchers.
Evolution
Aug 01, 2019
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Nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains, Peru's coastal region relies on surface water from the Andes for drinking water, industry, and animal and crop farming.
Environment
Jun 24, 2019
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Published today in Nature, researchers show that alien bird introductions are most successful in locations and climates similar to their native habitats and in places where other alien species are already established.
Ecology
Jun 19, 2019
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(Phys.org) —A period of rapid, intense cooling, known as the Younger Dryas, took place about 13,000 years ago. Scientists think this sudden change in climate caused the extinction of many large mammals, such as the mammoth, ...
Preserving the world's peatlands—and the vast carbon stores they contain—is vital to limiting climate change, researchers say.
Earth Sciences
Dec 07, 2020
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When Hurricane Maria made landfall, devastating Dominica, St. Croix, and Puerto Rico in September 2017, flooding and power outages wreaked havoc on the debilitated land, resulting in the contamination of waterways with untreated ...
Environment
Nov 18, 2020
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