New bird that humans drove to extinction discovered in Azores
Inside the crater of a volcano on Graciosa Island in the Azores archipelago, in the Atlantic Ocean, an international team of researchers has discovered...
How environmental changes affect the shapes of RNA in living cells
The impact of environmental conditions on the dynamic structures of RNAs in living cells has been revealed by innovative technology.
Ancestral variation guides future environmental adaptations
The speed of environmental change is very challenging for wild organisms. When exposed to a new environment individual plants and animals can potentially adjust...
It takes three: The genetic mutations that made rice cultivation possible
New research suggests that the historical emergence of cultivated rice from wild rice plants resulted from a combination of three gene mutations that make...
Fossilized insect from 100 million years ago is oldest record of primitive bee with...
Beetle parasites clinging to a primitive bee 100 million years ago may have caused the flight error that, while deadly for the insect, is...
Frankincense is endangered
There are fewer and fewer trees that can produce this beloved aromatic resin.
Tree fern genome provides insights into its evolution
For the first time, researchers have characterized the genome arrangement of tree ferns, which sheds new insight into how ferns evolved.
Entomologists uncover Florida fire ant matriarchy
Researchers have found colonies of tropical fire ants, native to Florida and coastal Georgia, that thrive with multiple queens and in close proximity to...
Marine scientists discover kleptopredation, a new way of catching prey
When it comes to feeding time sea slugs are the pirates of the underwater world -- attacking prey that have just eaten in order...
How fish got onto land, and stayed there
Research on blennies, a family of fish that have repeatedly left the sea for land, suggests that being a 'jack of all trades' allows...
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Combined Soils and Land Use Research Workshops 2013 – Programme
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ISIS Stakeholder Workshop & EPA Soils and Land Use Research Planning Workshop
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The Climate Change Problem No One Talks About: Anxiety and Depression
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Report by Adelphi thinktank warns terrorist groups will exploit natural disasters and water and food shortages
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