New research led by Adam Dixon, a conservation scientist with the World Wildlife Fund, describes the successful pilot of a novel method to study how well grassland birds are faring on croplands. The study, published in Ecological ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 24, 2023
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Cheap, versatile and easy to grow, palm oil is the world's most consumed vegetable oil and is found in roughly half of all packaged supermarket products, from bread and margarine to shampoo and toothpaste.
Ecology
Jul 20, 2023
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Schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease that causes organ damage and death, affected more than 250 million people worldwide in 2021, according to the World Health Organization.
Ecology
Jul 13, 2023
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White sand beaches. Crystalline waters. Toxic smoke plumes wafting across a paradise clogged with plastic trash.
Environment
Jul 13, 2023
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Working with aerial and satellite imagery and more than 30,000 trees in Detroit, researchers from the University of Michigan set out in 2017 to find a better way to measure pollen.
Ecology
Jul 7, 2023
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A new study revealing that huge expansions of extensive large-scale agriculture is making the South American plains more vulnerable to widespread flooding should act as a "wake-up call," say researchers.
Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2023
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An international team of researchers who discovered a vast network of stone walls along the River Nile in Egypt and Sudan say these massive "river groins" reveal an exceptionally long-lived form of hydraulic engineering in ...
Archaeology
Jun 13, 2023
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The ominous mass of seaweed looming in the Atlantic and creeping our way set size records earlier this spring—it was huge. But last month it actually shrank, according to scientists from the University of South Florida.
Plants & Animals
Jun 5, 2023
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In their research, associate professor from the NRS Department Tiejun Wang and his master's student Zijing Wu developed an AI-model to automatically locate and count large herds of migratory ungulates (wildebeest and zebra). ...
Ecology
Jun 2, 2023
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The pixel size of satellite imagery is getting finer and finer in the last decade with the development spaceborne cameras. What is in store for Earth observations if the 10-cm satellite imagery is available in near future? ...
Earth Sciences
May 22, 2023
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