A new technique developed by University of Alberta biologists can determine whether certain fish populations are native to lakes in national parks.
Plants & Animals
Sep 19, 2019
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Transgenic mosquitoes released in Brazil in an effort to reduce the population of disease-bearing insects have successfully bred and passed on genes to the native mosquito population, a new Yale research study published Sept. ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2019
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Moving can be tough, but eventually most of us acclimate to new surroundings.
Ecology
Aug 26, 2019
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On the surface, bighorn sheep migration is like that of many other large mammals, moving to higher elevations as snow melts in the springtime then returning to lower ground to forage as winter sets in.
Ecology
Aug 2, 2019
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Researchers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have painstakingly reconstructed the nation's 'once in a century drought' in the early 1900s, revealing that it caused mass ecosystem collapse and dramatic declines ...
Environment
Jul 16, 2019
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A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, studied the ecological function of linalool, a naturally abundant volatile organic compound, in wild Nicotiana attenuata tobacco plants. ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 1, 2019
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The latest supplement to the American Ornithological Society's checklist of North and Middle American birds is being published in The Auk: Ornithological Advances, and it includes several major updates to the organization ...
Ecology
Jun 24, 2019
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Just a few weeks ago, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it was pulling 12 products off the market that contained pesticides that were harmful to the honeybee. This week, the agency made an emergency exception ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2019
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Two children's milk teeth buried deep in a remote archaeological site in north eastern Siberia have revealed a previously unknown group of people lived there during the last Ice Age.
Archaeology
Jun 5, 2019
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Scientists report that ancient variations in the proteins that metabolize omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in humans may have consequences for the health of modern-day Native American communities.
Evolution
Jun 4, 2019
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