Biodiversity loss is one of the most alarming threads the planet faces. Degraded habitats, overexploited resources, climate crisis and invasive species are some of the factors that threaten the richness and variety of living ...
Ecology
Jul 18, 2024
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Islands contribute enormously to global biodiversity, but are threatened by human activities. To understand why some islands have been more impacted since first human settlement than others, a new study compared environmental ...
Plants & Animals
May 12, 2020
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During the nearly five decades of its operation, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hamburg has developed many fruitful collaborations with other scientific institutions located in the Hamburg metropolitan ...
Biotechnology
Nov 27, 2023
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Almonds are big business in California, which grows 80 percent of the world's crop with a value of $5.62 billion.
Ecology
Oct 5, 2021
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On February 18, Associate Professor Masatoshi Kondo (Laboratory for Advanced Nuclear Energy, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology) spoke at a press webinar hosted by the Japan Association of Communication ...
Materials Science
Jun 18, 2021
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Research plays a pivotal role in society. Through research, we gain new understandings, test theories and make discoveries.
Education
Nov 15, 2023
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As wildfires in Siberia become more common, global climate modeling estimates significant impacts on climate, air quality, health, and economies in East Asia and across the northern hemisphere.
Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2024
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The dispersal pathways of plastic waste in the southern North Sea have been investigated by an interdisciplinary research team led by the University of Oldenburg. A key part of the "Macroplastics" project was the participation ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 6, 2023
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The urban water system theory is the application and extension of watershed hydrological science to an urban scale. In a paper published in Science China Earth Sciences, a research group led by Chinese academician Xia Jun ...
Earth Sciences
May 24, 2024
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The function of ecosystem services is to to label the benefits that humans derive from natural ecosystems and biodiversity in order to include their value into decision-making. The area is attracting much research, but a ...
Environment
Aug 2, 2017
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