Submissions from phys.org

• As the ocean warms, marine species relocate toward the poles: study

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  Published 27th Mar 2020
• Why marine protected areas are often not where they should be

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  Published 26th Mar 2020
• Pablo Escobar's hippos may help counteract a legacy of extinctions

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  Published 24th Mar 2020
• Improving success of giraffe translocations

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  Published 23rd Mar 2020
• A study on how much carbon tropical forests can absorb: 'results show abiotic and biotic factors interact with one another to determine how much carbon can be stored by the ecosystem based on the availability of other resources like water and nutrients.'

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  Published 19th Mar 2020
• Warming seas: Climate change's toll on tropical fish

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  Published 19th Mar 2020
• How horses can save the permafrost

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  Published 18th Mar 2020
• Ronald Stephenson and a team of Mississippi researchers (South US) study how pest management strategies affect the bottom line. 'Both conventional and organic threshold treatments resulted in greater gross margins in comparison with the calendar spray treatment.'

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  Published 18th Mar 2020
• Scientists find burnt, starving koalas weeks after the bushfires

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  Published 17th Mar 2020
• If you're poor, poverty is an environmental issue - When interviewers asked Latino community members in San Antonio, TX about their top environmental concerns, the answers took researchers by surprise. "They started bringing up things that don't typically come up in environmental studies."

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  Published 17th Mar 2020
• Soft corals near Virgin Islands recover from hurricanes, but stony corals declining

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  Published 17th Mar 2020
• Nitrogen dioxide emissions drop over Italy due to Coronavirus. 'We are very confident that the reduction in emissions that we can see, coincides with the lockdown in Italy causing less traffic and industrial activities." said Zehner.

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  Published 16th Mar 2020
• US Researchers at Princeton University (In New Jersey) have created a framework to understand and compare cities' food systems and their effects on climate change, water use and land use. 'The research will allow planners to estimate the impact of a city's food system and evaluate policy actions.'

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  Published 16th Mar 2020
• Brazilian Scientists at São Paulo State University (UNESP) report findings into how landscape changes caused by deforestation, habitat loss and fragmentation lead directly to the loss not only of species, but also of their ecological interactions.

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  Published 16th Mar 2020
• Actively engaging local people could make grizzly conservation policies more bearable

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  Published 15th Mar 2020
• How plants sound the alarm about danger

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  Published 15th Mar 2020
• Hot time in the city: Urban lizards evolve heat tolerance

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  Published 15th Mar 2020
• Some domesticated plants ignore beneficial soil microbes

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  Published 13th Mar 2020
• Remote South American kelp forests surveyed for first time since 1973: Friedlander says: "The kelp forest of the extreme tip of South America are some of the most pristine on earth and have not changed substantially since the early 1970s when they were first surveyed,"

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  Published 12th Mar 2020
• Researchers working on mastitis test that could save milk producers millions: 'University of Alberta researchers (in West Canada) are developing an easy pen-side test that can predict a common and costly disease in dairy cattle. '

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  Published 12th Mar 2020
• Ship noise hampers crab camouflage

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  Published 11th Mar 2020
• Research on soldier ants reveals that evolution can go in reverse

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  Published 11th Mar 2020
• It's official: The last five years were the warmest ever recorded

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  Published 11th Mar 2020
• Research shows mangrove conservation can pay for itself in flood protection

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  Published 11th Mar 2020
• From darkness to light: New findings unravel how plants control energy generation. 'Understanding carotenoid signaling pathways has opened up new opportunities to develop new plant functional compounds that could enhance color, nutrition, flavor, and development of plants.'

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  Published 11th Mar 2020
• Researchers from Argentina accurately estimated the size of a white-tipped plantcutter bird by studying nothing but its song: 'To find out, they studied the physical characteristics of the oroesophageal cavity and developed a mathematical theory to describe the sounds..'

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  Published 11th Mar 2020
• Space Lettuce cultivated: 'researchers at the Kennedy Space Center (Canaveral Florida) report the successful cultivation of a salad crop, red romaine lettuce of the 'Outredgeous' cultivar on board the International Space Station (ISS).'

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  Published 11th Mar 2020
• Research shows microplastics are damaging to coral ecosystems

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  Published 9th Mar 2020
• Zombie caterpillar fungus may contain anti-cancer drug – but there are still questions to be answered

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  Published 9th Mar 2020
• Honeybee dance dialects

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  Published 9th Mar 2020
• Research: Evolution of life cycle of parasitic worm that takes over 'zombie ants'

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  Published 9th Mar 2020
• Scientists say it is time to save the red sea's coral reef

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  Published 8th Mar 2020
• The health of coral reefs in the largest marine protected area in the world

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  Published 8th Mar 2020
• Spring is arriving earlier across the US, and that's not good news

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  Published 4th Mar 2020
• Moscow winter 'warmest since records began': state weather service | Moscow, which for the past months has largely been deprived of its traditional seasonal covering of snow, has seen its warmest winter since records began 140 years ago

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  Published 1st Mar 2020
• Banned! New York sends plastic bags packing

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  Published 1st Mar 2020
• Not falling far from tree: Ecologists study seed-to-seedling transitions

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  Published 1st Mar 2020
• Climate change threatens relationship between polar bears and ringed seals

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  Published 1st Mar 2020
• Phys.org: Study shows universally positive effect of cover crops on soil microbiome

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  Published 1st Mar 2020
• Deep-sea coral gardens discovered in canyons off Australia's South West

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  Published 28th Feb 2020
• A trillion trees not enough to fix climate crisis, critics say

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  Published 28th Feb 2020
• Researchers solve old biodiversity mystery

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  Published 28th Feb 2020
• There are two distinct red panda species, according to DNA analysis

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  Published 28th Feb 2020
• Arctic 'doomsday vault' stocks up on 60,000 more food seeds

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  Published 27th Feb 2020
• Powerful mantis shrimp pull punches in air for self-preservation

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  Published 27th Feb 2020
• How South Africa's mangrove forests store carbon and why it matters

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  Published 27th Feb 2020
• Why coronavirus could help save China's endangered species

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  Published 27th Feb 2020
• Adaptation: Competition and predation may not be the driving force scientists thought

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  Published 26th Feb 2020
• The genetic secret of night vision

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  Published 26th Feb 2020
• Feed supplement for dairy cows cuts enteric methane emissions by 25%

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  Published 26th Feb 2020
• Nearly 50 rhinos killed in Botswana in 10 months as poaching surges

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  Published 25th Feb 2020
• Soft robot fingers gently grasp deep-sea jellyfish

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  Published 25th Feb 2020
• Quokkas: What happened to the 'happiest animal in the world'

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  Published 25th Feb 2020
• Opening the window in your home will not flush out the chemicals in the air

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  Published 24th Feb 2020
• Smaller animals faced surprisingly long odds in ancient oceans

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  Published 24th Feb 2020
• Bumblebees can experience an object using one sense and later recognize it using another

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  Published 24th Feb 2020
• Tadpoles create their own air bubbles to breathe

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  Published 24th Feb 2020
• Nearly 900,000 pangolins trafficked worldwide: watchdog

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  Published 21st Feb 2020
• Sharp decrease in sparrows caused by use of artificial grass in city parks

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  Published 21st Feb 2020
• New climate model projects major impact on coral, important fish habitats

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  Published 21st Feb 2020
• Watching TV helps birds make better food choices

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  Published 21st Feb 2020
• Plants can detect insect attacks by 'sniffing' each other's aromas

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  Published 21st Feb 2020
• Mussels 'cooked alive' in balmy New Zealand ocean

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  Published 20th Feb 2020
• How genetic testing is helping scientists save animals from disease and illegal hunting

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  Published 20th Feb 2020
• Scientists make fresh call for policy makers to protect pollinators

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  Published 19th Feb 2020
• Warming, acidic oceans may nearly eliminate coral reef habitats by 2100

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  Published 19th Feb 2020
• Africa's growing lead battery industry is causing extensive contamination

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  Published 18th Feb 2020
• Freshwater insects recover while spiders decline in UK

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  Published 18th Feb 2020
• The carbon cost of home delivery and how to avoid it

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  Published 17th Feb 2020
• Plastic pollution poses new threat to a turtle paradise

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  Published 17th Feb 2020
• How learning about fish can help us save the Amazon rainforest

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  Published 17th Feb 2020
• Invasive bug found feeding on avocado plants in Hawaii

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  Published 17th Feb 2020
• San Diego aquarium breeds rare weedy sea dragon in captivity

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  Published 17th Feb 2020
• Researchers study how birds retweet news

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  Published 17th Feb 2020
• Coral reefs: Centuries of human impact

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  Published 16th Feb 2020
• Understanding different brown bear personalities may help reduce clashes with people

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  Published 16th Feb 2020
• Tiny Dancer: Scientists spy on booty-shaking bees to help conservation

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  Published 16th Feb 2020
• Sea lions could point the way to monitor riverbed erosion

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  Published 16th Feb 2020
• Half of US deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions

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  Published 13th Feb 2020
• Air pollution costs $2.9 trillion a year: NGO

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  Published 13th Feb 2020
• Polar bears in Baffin Bay skinnier, having fewer cubs due to less sea ice

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  Published 13th Feb 2020
• Penguins starving as Antarctica warms: Drones help count the losses

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  Published 13th Feb 2020
• One-third of plant and animal species could be gone in 50 years, study says

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  Published 13th Feb 2020
• Orb-weaver spiders' yellow and black pattern helps them lure prey

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  Published 13th Feb 2020
• Heat trapped in urban areas tricks trees into thinking spring has arrived earlier

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  Published 12th Feb 2020
• Researchers find new method to allow corals to rapidly respond to climate change

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  Published 12th Feb 2020
• How some butterflies developed the ability to change their eyespot size

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  Published 12th Feb 2020
• Half-a-million insect species face extinction: scientists

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  Published 11th Feb 2020
• Video: Pine Island Glacier spawns 'piglets'

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  Published 11th Feb 2020
• Could illegally trafficked pangolins be the missing link in the coronavirus outbreak?

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  Published 11th Feb 2020
• Red and grey squirrel genomes could hold the key to the survival of reds in Britain and Ireland

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  Published 10th Feb 2020
• Faster than a speeding bullet: Asian hornet invasion spreads to Northern Germany

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  Published 10th Feb 2020
• Why bumble bees are going extinct in time of 'climate chaos'

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  Published 10th Feb 2020
• Tropical trees are living time capsules of human history

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  Published 10th Feb 2020
• Researchers study elephants' unique interactions with their dead

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  Published 10th Feb 2020
• Four rare mountain gorillas 'killed by lightning' in Uganda

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  Published 10th Feb 2020
• Research voyage brings Zealandia secrets to the surface

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  Published 10th Feb 2020
• Cattle grazing supports biodiversity in Romania

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  Published 10th Feb 2020
• Red coral effectively recovers in Mediterranean protected areas

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  Published 5th Feb 2020
• Scientists listen to whales, walruses, seals in a changing arctic seascape

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  Published 4th Feb 2020
• World Wetlands Day: Fostering global biodiversity and mitigating climate change

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  Published 4th Feb 2020