Comprehensive estimate of 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill
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Understanding deadly citrus disease
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Effects of munitions in the seas only partially known
More than 70 years after the end of World War II, countless pieces of ammunition from this time are still lying in all oceans....
Ancient quids reveal clues about genetic ancestry of early Great Basin inhabitants
New research showcases modern research methods that have revealed clues about the genetic ancestry of Native Americans who inhabited the Desert Southwest almost 1,000...
If pigs could fly: How can forests regenerate without birds?
Research on ungulates in the limestone forests of northern Guam has yielded surprising results.
Vultures reveal critical Old World flyways
Identifying bottlenecks -- i.e. places where birds concentrate on migration -- helps bird conservationists know what areas to focus on and get the most...
Warming future means more fire, fewer trees in western biodiversity hotspot
Increasing fires and summer droughts caused by global warming are drastically changing a globally unique bio-region of northern California and southwestern Oregon, according to...
Compensation of ocean acidification effects in Arctic phytoplankton assemblages
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The epigenetic landscape of transgenerational acclimation to ocean warming
The epigenetic landscape of transgenerational acclimation to ocean warmingThe epigenetic landscape of transgenerational acclimation to ocean warming, Published online: 30 April 2018; doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0159-0Transgenerational acclimation...
Scientists project a drier Amazon and wetter Indonesia in the future
Climate models predict that an increase in greenhouse gases will dry out the Amazon rainforest in the future while causing wetter conditions in the...
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