Roadmap for measuring animal, plant traits to meet biodiversity goals
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Parsing natural climate variability from human-caused climate change
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Adapt, move or die: How biodiversity reacted to past climate change
A new paper reviews current knowledge on climate change and biodiversity. In the past, plants and animals reacted to environmental changes by adapting, migrating...
Recycling waste water bottles into mission critical parts with 3D printing (video)
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What’s behind the retreating kelps and expanding corals?
Climate change and other external forces are causing rapid marine community shifts in Japan's coastal ecosystems. Better understanding of species distribution dynamics, as driven...
New “Biosphere News Search” Web Site Launches to Benefit Global Ecology
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New “Biosphere News Search” Web Site Launches to Benefit Global Ecology
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Coldwater streams may provide refuge against changing climate
Coldwater stream habitats are vulnerable to effects of climate change, particularly to changes in precipitation and air temperatures that alter their hydrology. Some streams...
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A research team has found the first proof that Antarctica is not isolated from the rest of the Earth, with the discovery that foreign...
Uncontrolled Mass Migration Portends Fascism and Biosphere Collapse Unless We Share
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