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Two connected marine ecosystems -- the Eastern English Channel and Southern North Sea -- experienced big and opposite changes in their fish communities over...
Harvesting renewable energy from the sun and outer space at the same time
Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that heat from the sun and coldness from outer space can be collected simultaneously with a single...
Decline in shorebirds linked to climate change, experts warn
Researchers have discovered that daily nest predation of shorebirds has increased threefold over the last 70 years. The data suggest the larger increase in...
See-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat
Engineers have developed a heat-rejecting film that could be applied to a building's windows to reflect up to 70 percent of the sun's incoming...
Bees on the brink
Using an innovative robotic platform to observe bees' behavior, researchers showed that, following exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides -- the most commonly-used class of pesticides...
New tool to predict which plants will become invasive
New research provides insight to help predict which plants are likely to become invasive in a particular community. The results showed that non-native plants...
What could cause the Mississippi Bight to become hypoxic?
A recent article explores aspects of the environmental conditions that can potentially lead to hypoxia in the Mississippi Bight region of the northern Gulf...
Yellowstone streams recovering thanks to wolf reintroduction
In the first study of its kind, scientists show that the return of large terrestrial carnivores can lead to improved stream structure and function.
Transforming carbon dioxide into industrial fuels
One day in the not-too-distant future, the gases coming from power plants and heavy industry, rather than spewing into the atmosphere, could be captured...
Rainforest destruction from gold mining hits all-time high in Peru
Small-scale gold mining has destroyed more than 170,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon in the past five years, according to a...
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