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Book Review: A Handbook of Human Misfortune – The Doomsday Handbook
The world could end tomorrow. The Doomsday Handbook by Ahok Jia tells how it would all go down, how to prepare ourselves, and how we might prevent it all in the first place
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The Secret Life of Bee Bacteria: Gut Microbiota May Yield Clues to Honey Bee Health
Honey bees and the bacteria in their guts depend on each other, yet the precise nature of this relationship is largely unknown.
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Fighting the Freeze: How Antarctica’s Shifting Landscape Shaped Notothenioid Evolution
The story of the notothenioids illustrates how relatively small changes in temperature have led to major differences in species survival
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Fate of Australian Megafauna Discovered through Prehistoric Dung
A new study of prehistoric environments has helped to clarify both the timeline and the consequences of an Australian extinction event
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Stress and Ecosystems: Role of Predation Reconsidered in the Hunt for Stable Ecology
Research from Dr. Dror Hawlena has determined how the presence of predators stresses their prey, and as a result changes the entire ecosystem
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Rewriting the Textbooks
Since its founding in 2006, the Nutrient Network (NutNet), a project initiated by Professor Melinda Smith and her colleagues, has improved the consistency of ecosystem productivity measurement, and its findings are challenging the classical
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Mythbusters: The Great Barrier Reef
Some scientists project that because of rising ocean temperatures and acidity, non-coral organisms will dominate the Great Barrier Reef, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, as soon as
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The Quiet Corner Initiative
Through the new Quiet Corner Initiative (QCI), the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies aims to build the capacity of private landowners to manage and conserve the natural landscapes of a region of
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Bringing Back the Dead: Reviving an Extinct Tortoise Species
During the first half of the 19th century, more than 200,000 tortoises were hunted and eaten by whalers passing through the Galapagos Islands. The whalers rode the ocean currents into the southern corner of
Read More »Trees Block Carbon Dioxide Decline
People are not the only living organism that can shift the earth’s climate. Models developed by researchers from Yale, Stanford, and the University of Sheffield suggest that plants help regulate minimum carbon dioxide concentrations
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