Underestimating combined threats of deforestation and wildlife trade will push Southeast Asian birds
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When you're cooking or cleaning inside your home, what chemicals are you breathing, and are they potentially harmful? Chemists have given us a solid...
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Study links increasing air pollution to the rise of a type of lung cancer
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New peanut has a wild past and domesticated present
The wild relatives of modern peanut plants have the ability to withstand disease in ways that peanut plants can't. Researchers have been homing in...
Pythons are true choke artists
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Remote Hawaiian island harbors last land snails of their kind
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Pollution: New ammonia emission sources detected from space
Researchers have prepared the first global map of the distribution of atmospheric ammonia (NH3) by analyzing measurements taken by satellites between 2008 and 2016....
Back to the future: New study could lead to bumper crops
Research could lead to major improvements in crop production. The study shows a new way to help study and ramp up photosynthesis.
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