Multiple uses for empty plastic bottles during disaster relief and beyond
Powerful hurricanes and earthquakes have wreaked havoc in the United States and around the world in recent years, often leaving people stranded for months...
Retaliatory tariffs could cost billions in reduced US soybean exports
Researchers have examined potential impacts to US soybean exports at three hypothetical tariff rates. The research indicates that exports are projected to drop by...
Could seismology equipment help to protect elephants from poachers?
Using tools developed to monitor earthquakes, an interdisciplinary team of researchers have found that it's possible to eavesdrop on elephants by listening in to...
Novel scientific method to derive water quality criteria of metals
Increasing contamination of marine ecosystems by metals such as mercury, cadmium, chromium and nickel has been a global environmental concern, because elevated concentrations of...
Russian cuckoo invasion spells trouble for Alaskan birds
Common cuckoos and oriental cuckoos in eastern Russia appear to be expanding their breeding range into western Alaska, where songbirds are naive to the...
Deadly duet: Uncovering mechanism of action for a class of pore-forming bacterial toxins
Pore-forming toxins are common bacterial poisons. They attack organisms by introducing holes in cell membranes. A team of scientists has now unraveled the mechanism...
Measuring snow persistence can help predict streamflow
A team of researchers found that snow persistence can be used to map patterns of annual streamflow in dry parts of the western United...
Marine animals can hear us swim, kayak and scuba dive
While it is obvious that things like boats can be heard by marine life under the water, what about human activities like swimming, canoeing...
How land use and climate change are driving species distribution shifts
Climate change is altering where species live all over the planet. With global warming, species are moving towards the poles and up elevation where...
New evidence that bullfrogs are to blame for deadly fungus outbreaks in western US
In the 1890s, settlers crossed the Rocky Mountains seeking new opportunities -- and bearing frogs. A new study draws a link between that introduction...
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