Toxoplasmosis is a disease that can have devastating effects on an unborn child, and many women have been erroneously advised to get rid of their cat if they are pregnant, says Susan Nelson, veterinarian and clinical professor ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 28, 2018
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The millions of tonnes of plastic ending up in the oceans every year are a global challenge. ESA is responding by looking at the detection of marine plastic litter from space, potentially charting its highest concentrations ...
Environment
Mar 20, 2018
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In years when food is abundant for squirrels, males kill the young of rival males, according to new research from University of Alberta biologists.
Ecology
Mar 16, 2018
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Scientists described two species of previously unknown stone centipedes from China. Now housed at the Hengshui University, China, where all members of the team work, the studied specimens were all collected in the leaf litter ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2018
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FIU biologist Alessandro Catenazzi went in search of vanishing frogs in the Amazon. What he found was an entirely new species.
Plants & Animals
Mar 1, 2018
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Finding a solution to the causes and impacts of marine litter is now widely recognised as one of the major environmental challenges of our time. And one of the key elements required to address the issue is encouraging people ...
Ecology
Feb 21, 2018
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Global problems —like our plastic-choked seas —need global solutions.
Environment
Feb 9, 2018
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When researchers found invasive Asian jumping worms at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum in 2013, they spotted an opportunity to follow the invaders, and their effects, from the beginning.
Ecology
Jan 12, 2018
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Among the lines of small mud houses, plastic litter and piles of parched earth, children gaze skywards at a shiny blue tank perched on steel legs.
Environment
Nov 7, 2017
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The weather is getting warmer, and gardens are coming alive with bees, flies, butterflies, dragonflies, praying mantises, beetles, millipedes, centipedes, and spiders.
Ecology
Nov 6, 2017
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