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North America's beloved Monarch butterflies are known for their annual, multi-generation migrations in which individual insects can fly for thousands of miles. But Monarchs...
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Lizard skull fossil is new and ‘perplexing’ extinct species
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Hot or cold, weather alone has no significant effect on COVID-19 spread
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Flying through wildfire smoke plumes could improve smoke forecasts
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Bats can predict the future, researchers discover
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Agriculture: A loan for lean season
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Longer mud season, no snow could alter northeast US rivers by 2100
Researchers have found that snow cover is on the decline in northeastern US due to climate change and by the end of century, the...
Consequences of glacier shrinkage
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To predict how crops cope with changing climate, 30 years of experiments simulate future
A new review synthesizes 30 years of 'Free-Air Concentration Enrichment' (FACE) data to grasp how global crop production may be impacted by rising CO2...
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