Connections with friends and family are key to helping communities adapt to the devastating impact of climate change on their homes and livelihoods, a new study shows.
Environment
Aug 10, 2020
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New Guinea is the most floristically diverse island in the world, an international collaboration led by the University of Zurich has shown. The study presents a list of almost 14,000 plant species, compiled from online catalogs ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 5, 2020
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People in Fiji, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and other island nations in the Southwest Pacific will have months more to prepare for tropical cyclones, thanks to a new outlook ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 22, 2020
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It is well known that agriculture developed independently in New Guinea 7000 years ago, but evidence of its influence on how people lived has eluded scientists—until now.
Archaeology
Mar 26, 2020
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Planned hydropower dams will greatly increase threats for freshwater fish species because of habitat fragmentation, especially in the tropics. This was already suspected, but environmental researchers at Radboud University, ...
Ecology
Feb 3, 2020
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One of the largest living birds, the Southern Cassowary, has a simple throat structure similar to the fellow Australian emu. Now new research confirms a common link between the cassowary and small flighted South American ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2020
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New research has found that positive community action can boost fish numbers in coral reefs and safeguard fish numbers there in the future.
Ecology
Dec 19, 2019
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Coral species richness at different depths is unrelated to energy availability, according to a new study analysing diversity across an Australasian reef.
Ecology
Oct 29, 2019
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By this point, scientists have a pretty good handle on what kinds of big animals exist. Researchers still turn up new species of rats and insects, but most animals bigger than your hand are old news. But by looking at 90-year-old ...
Archaeology
Sep 25, 2019
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Around the globe, communities are concerned with rain and storms. An area known as the "Maritime Continent," which includes major islands such as Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Papua New Guinea, along with a galaxy of smaller islands, ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2019
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