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Using a combination of fossils and chemical markers, scientists have tracked how a period of globally low ocean-oxygen turned an Early Jurassic marine ecosystem...
Climate change: Biodiversity rescues biodiversity in a warmer world
Climate change leads to loss of biodiversity worldwide. However, ecosystems with a higher biodiversity in the first place might be less affected a new...
Ecological underpinnings of rural poverty
A first-of-its-kind effort to examine the ecological drivers of rural poverty combines economic, ecological and epidemiological models. The lessons learned could inform interventions to...
Unabated climate change would reverse the development gains in Asia, report suggests
Unabated climate change would bring devastating consequences to countries in Asia and the Pacific, which could severely affect their future growth, reverse current development...
Deep-sea coral reefs discovery in depths of the North-Pacific
Scientists had long believed that the waters of the Central and Northeast Pacific Ocean were inhospitable to certain species of deep-sea corals, but a...
Mica provides clue to how water transports minerals
Chemists have been able to look at the interface between water and muscovite mica, a flat mineral commonly found in granite, soils and many...
New research uses satellites to predict end of volcanic eruptions
Infrared satellite data could be used to predict when lava flow-forming eruptions will end, researchers recently discovered.
The last survivors on Earth
The world's most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the sun dies, according to...
Why Japan’s coastal zones might be disappearing due to climate change
Climate change can cause a range of effects on coastal environments, such as a decrease in sediment supply, changes in the intensity and frequency...
Nickel is crucial for Earth’s magnetic field
Earth's hot core, consisting mainly of iron, is responsible for the 'dynamo effect,' which creates a magnetic field. But with iron alone, this effect...
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