To reduce pollution, policymakers should broaden focus beyond smokestacks
Researchers used integrated assessment models to compute marginal damages from fine particulate matter-related emissions to measure economy-wide gross external damage due to premature mortality...
Key enzyme found in plants could guide development of medicines and other products
Researchers studying how plants evolved the abilities to make natural chemicals, which they use to adapt to stress, have uncovered how an enzyme called...
SPEECHLESS, SCREAM and stomata development in plant leaves
Scientists with two disparate sets of expertise -- in plant biology and protein structural chemistry -- have unraveled the atomic basis of how optimal...
Bring on the bugs! Young Britons are ready for ethical, sustainable protein
A new survey finds that young people expect bugs to be a normal part of our diets within a decade.
New light shed on demise of two extinct New Zealand songbirds
They may not have been seen for the past 50 and 110 years, but an international study into their extinction has provided answers to...
Deer browsing is not stopping the densification of Eastern US forests
Selective browsing by white-tailed deer has been blamed by many for changing the character and composition of forest understories in the eastern US; however,...
Sexual selection influences the evolution of lamprey pheromones
Sexual selection may play a role in the evolution of lamprey pheromones.
Native birds in South-eastern Australia worst affected by habitat loss
New research has found that habitat loss is a major concern for hundreds of Australian bird species, and south-eastern Australia has been the worst...
UK harvests its first crop of chickpeas
This is precisely the kind of healthy, sustainable agriculture we should be trying to expand globally.
Daisies that close at night have camouflaged petals to protect them from herbivores
Species of daisy that close their flowers at night, produce color in their exposed lower petals that makes them harder to spot for herbivores,...
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Gorillas, rhinos, lions and more will soon become extinct without immediate action
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Named for 'el diablo' himself, a new and extremely rare orchid species reveals a wicked heart.
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Florida man arrested for stealing sea turtle eggs
He's given a whole new meaning to "poached eggs."
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Rare blindcat found in US, could prove water-filled caves connect Texas and Mexico
The extremely rare cave-dwelling albino fish with no eyes, the Mexican blindcat, has previously only been known to exist in Mexico.
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