Climate change not the key driver of human conflict and displacement in East Africa
Over the last 50 years climate change has not been the key driver of the human displacement or conflict in East Africa, rather it...
Winter wave heights and extreme storms on the rise in Western Europe
Study reveals average winter wave heights along the Atlantic coast of Western Europe have been rising for almost seven decades.
Carbon capture could be a financial opportunity for US biofuels
With recent tax credits and other policies, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it underground is not only possible but profitable for...
Applying network analysis to natural history
By using network analysis to search for communities of marine life in the fossil records of the Paleobiology Database, biologists were able to quantify...
Did last ice age affect breastfeeding in Native Americans?
Biologists have been puzzled by the evolutionary adaptation behind a common tooth trait of northern Asians and Native Americans: shovel-shaped incisors. An analysis of...
Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence genomes of 1.5 million species
Scientists is proposing a massive project to sequence, catalog and analyze the genomes of all eukaryotic species on the planet, an undertaking the researchers...
Light at end of the tunnel for world’s wildlife and wild places
A new article finds that the enormous trends toward population stabilization, poverty alleviation, and urbanization are rewriting the future of biodiversity conservation in the...
Hungry birds as climate change drives food ‘mismatch’
Warmer springs create a 'mismatch' where hungry chicks hatch too late to feast on abundant caterpillars, new research shows.
‘Environmental DNA’ used to identify killer whales in Puget Sound
When endangered killer whales swim through the sheltered waters of Puget Sound, they leave behind traces of 'environmental DNA' that researchers can detect as...
New control strategy helps reap maximum power from wind farms
Researchers have developed a way to extract more power from the wind. The researchers used supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to filter...
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