Measuring climate impact of forests management
A group of forestry research experts has developed a rigorous new fact-based carbon accounting system that reflects how forest management practices can help mitigate...
Lessons learnt from the drift analysis of MH370 plane crash debris
The Boeing 777 of Malaysia Airlines (MH370) has been missing for over five years. The extensive, costly, but unsuccessful search operations have stopped. Scientists...
Electricity-driven undersea reactions may have been important for the emergence of life
In deep sea hydrothermal vents, water heated by Earth's mantle flows into the ocean, precipitating various minerals, including metal sulfides. These minerals form channels...
Power to the people
The first rule of advocating for climate change-related legislation is: You do not talk about 'climate change.' The term has become so polarizing that...
Agriculture initiated by indigenous peoples, not Fertile Crescent migration
Small scale agricultural farming was first initiated by indigenous communities living on Turkey's Anatolian plateau, and not introduced by migrant farmers as previously thought,...
Gene-editing technology may produce resistant virus in cassava plant
The use of gene-editing technology to create virus-resistant cassava plants could have serious negative ramifications, according to new research by plant biologists.
Terns face challenges when they fly south for winter
The common tern is most widespread tern species in North America, but its breeding colonies in interior North America have been on the decline...
Common beetle’s gut microbiome benefits forests, holds promise for bioenergy
New research shows how an insect common to the Eastern U.S., the long-horned passalid beetle, has a hardy digestive tract with microbes to thank...
Honey bee parasites, varroa mites, feed on fatty organs, not blood
Among the many threats to honey bee colonies around the world, one stands alone: the parasitic mite, Varroa destructor. For decades, researchers assumed that...
Why humans in Africa fled to the mountains during the last ice age
People in Ethiopia did not live in low valleys during the last ice age. Instead they lived high up in the inhospitable Bale Mountains...
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