Plastic garbage covers Central American rivers, lakes and beaches
A blanket of multi-colored plastic waste flowing in from tributaries covers Lake Suchitlan in El Salvador.
Environment
Sep 16, 2022
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Monitor lizards in Borneo found to prefer forests next to oil palm plantations
A team of researchers from Cardiff University working with staff at the Danau Girang Field Centre in Sabah, Malaysia, has found that monitor lizards living in the Malaysian part of Borneo prefer to reside in the natural forests ...
No need to get browned off: Edible films keep fruit fresh
Packaged green salad items, such as lettuce, coleslaw, or spinach sold ready to toss in the salad bowl, are now a frequent item in supermarket trolleys.
Materials Science
Sep 23, 2013
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Saving palm trees without killing bees
UC Riverside scientists have a new chemical weapon to seduce and kill the invasive, long-nosed beetles destroying California palm trees by the tens of thousands.
Ecology
May 24, 2022
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Coco de mer performs 'parental care' and modifies its habitat
Tourists are familiar with the Lodoicea maldivica palm, also called coco de mer, mainly because of their bizarrely shaped fruits. Scientists, however, are fascinated by the huge plants – which are abundant on the Seychelles ...
Ecology
Mar 11, 2015
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Encroaching sea already a threat in Caribbean
The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood ...
Environment
May 7, 2013
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The millenial pre-colonial cultural inluence is evident in the Amazon forest
More than ten years ago, large geometric earthworks found in the southwestern parts of the Amazon, called geoglyphs, were reported in the global scientific news. A pre-colonial civilization unknown to scholars that built ...
Archaeology
Jun 26, 2020
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Growing oil palm for biofuels can't save our climate
(Phys.org)—Growing oil palm to make 'green' biofuels in the tropics could be accelerating the effects of climate change, say scientists.
Environment
Jan 31, 2013
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New research to boost global date fruit production
Today on World Food Day, a team of Plant Scientists from King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) has begun a major project to improve global date palm production and protection.
Plants & Animals
Oct 15, 2019
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Researchers study the flight pattern of the red palm weevil in order to set more efficient control measures
What is the average distance that the red palm weevil covers? Does the insect's sex, age and body size have an influence on its flight potential? Researchers of the Universitat Politècnica de València have released a study ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 4, 2014
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