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Worldwide demand for food from the tropics that meets higher environmental and social standards has risen sharply in recent years. Consumers often have to...

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A renewable solution to keep cool in a warming world

Month-after-month, year-after-year, the world continues to experience record high temperatures. In response to this and exacerbated by a growing global population, it is expected...

Advancing wildlife genomics through the development of molecular methods

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Odors as navigational cues for pigeons

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Losing flight had huge benefits for ants

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Early-arriving endangered Chinook salmon take the brunt of sea lion predation

A new study found that sea lions have the largest negative effect on early-arriving endangered Chinook salmon in the lower Columbia River.

Research can (and should) support corporate decarbonization

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 October 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00936-0Research can (and should) support corporate decarbonization

Changing carbon-to-nitrogen ratios of organic-matter export under ocean acidification

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 October 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00915-5The biological pump sequesters carbon to the deep ocean. Ocean acidification, through impacts on plankton and...

Winter temperatures predominate in spring phenological responses to warming

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 October 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00917-3Spring phenology is influenced by chilling, forcing and photoperiod cues; the phenological response to warming from...

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