Shifting weather caused by climate change, especially drought and heat, is linked to a rise in the number of children being raised outside of their biological parents' households in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a study ...
Social Sciences
Apr 18, 2024
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It's not a single pesticide or virus stressing honey bees, and affecting their health, but exposure to a complex web of multiple interacting stressors encountered while at work pollinating crops, new research from York University ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 17, 2024
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A recent study by scientists at Ohio State University sheds light on the intricate relationship between plant growth regulators and the resilience of creeping bentgrass under varying environmental stressors such as heat stress ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 29, 2024
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Though the changing climate threatens the world's vegetation, a type of peat moss has surprised scientists with its resilience: Sphagnum divinum is actively evolving in response to hot, dry conditions.
Ecology
Nov 2, 2023
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A new Griffith study has developed a metric to describe the relationship between flow and water quality, which can help understand the response of waterways to flood events.
Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2023
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The combination of chemical and physical stressors that bacteria face during wastewater treatment can impact the transfer of genes between them. But while certain combinations of stressors significantly increase the gene-transfer ...
Ecology
Sep 27, 2023
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Aotearoa's coastal marine ecosystems are struggling with the cumulative effects of multiple human activities and stressors that are leading to tipping points, ecological surprises, and irreversible ecosystem damage.
Ecology
Aug 31, 2023
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A new epidemiological study of endangered juvenile green sea turtles in eastern Brazil suggests that factors such as water temperature, salinity and proximity to environmental stressors could trigger the development of a ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2023
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Trans and gender-diverse adolescents in England are more likely to experience gender discrimination and poorer well-being than their cisgender peers. Researchers compared 20,000 young people aged 12–15 in Greater Manchester ...
Social Sciences
Jul 26, 2023
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Changes in water conditions interact to affect how Trinidadian guppies protect themselves from predators, scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered.
Plants & Animals
Jul 4, 2023
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