Turn off porch light to aid caterpillars — and safeguard backyard ecosystems
Moderate levels of artificial light at night -- like the fixture illuminating your backyard -- bring more caterpillar predators and reduce the chance that...
Researchers get to the ‘bottom’ of how beetles use their butts to stay hydrated
Beetles are champions at surviving in extremely dry environments. In part, this property is due to their ability to suck water from the air...
New animal welfare scoring system could enable better-informed food and farming choices
Scientists have come up with a system of measuring animal welfare that enables reliable comparison across different types of pig farming.
The devil is in the details: Re-imagining fertilizer precursor synthesis
Researchers have improved the Faradaic efficiency of the nitrogen reduction reaction into ammonia by straightforward optimization of chemical process parameters. They found that trace...
Changing temperatures increase pesticide risk to bees
Temperature influences how badly pesticides affect bees' behavior, suggesting uncertain impacts under climate change, according to a new study.
Synthesis gas and battery power from sunlight energy
Plants use photosynthesis to harvest energy from sunlight. Now researchers have applied this principle as the basis for developing new sustainable processes which in...
Cascading failures in urban traffic systems tied to hidden bottlenecks
Scientists have developed a modeling technique to study urban traffic flows and show that their model can be used to find previously unknown bottlenecks....
Human and ocean health impacts of ocean plastics
Researchers from the fields of healthcare, ocean science, and social science have collaborated to quantify plastic's considerable risks to all life on Earth. The...
Solar industry feeling the heat over disposal of 80 million panels
Renewable energy experts have come up with an environmentally-friendly plan to dispose of solar panels at the end of their life.
3000+ billion tons of ice lost from Antarctic Ice Sheet over 25 years
Scientists have calculated that the fastest changing Antarctic region?-?the Amundsen Sea Embayment?-?has lost more than 3,000 billion tonnes of ice over a 25-year?period.??
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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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