Submissions from phys.org

• New report outlines potential yield challenges to scale-up of zero budget natural farming in India

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  Published 21st Jan 2020
• Female chimps with powerful moms are less likely to leave home

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  Published 21st Jan 2020
• Newly developed screening processes will accelerate carbon capture research

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  Published 20th Jan 2020
• In death of dinosaurs, it was all about the asteroid—not volcanoes

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  Published 19th Jan 2020
• Startling data fresh off an eight-year tiger shark study in French Polynesia shows severe impacts they face long after they are cut loose from fishing lines.

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  Published 19th Jan 2020
• Black rhino population shows steady growth

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  Published 19th Jan 2020
• Climate may play a bigger role than deforestation in rainforest biodiversity

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  Published 19th Jan 2020
• Animals reduce the symmetry of their markings to improve camouflage

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  Published 17th Jan 2020
• Tiny Seychelles island coaxes bird back from brink

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  Published 17th Jan 2020
• Diverse cropping systems don't increase carbon storage compared to corn-soybean rotations

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  Published 17th Jan 2020
• Why we don't know how many mountain gorillas live in the wild

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  Published 16th Jan 2020
• Baltimore to say bye to plastic bags at checkout, starting early next year

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  Published 15th Jan 2020
• Life's clockwork: Scientist shows how molecular engines keep us ticking

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  Published 15th Jan 2020
• Can an underwater soundtrack really bring coral reefs back to life?

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  Published 14th Jan 2020
• Plea for New Zealand to house fire-threatened koalas

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  Published 14th Jan 2020
• Historic German island is nursery for North Sea seals

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  Published 13th Jan 2020
• Scientists welcome reports of wolf pack in northern Colorado, call for reintroduction to ensure recovery

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  Published 12th Jan 2020
• Large 'herbivores of the sea' help keep coral reefs healthy

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  Published 10th Jan 2020
• Researcher helps fill in the family tree of the shy mountain beaver

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  Published 10th Jan 2020
• Selfless African grey parrots get by with a little help from friends

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  Published 10th Jan 2020
• 3-D movies reveal how cuttlefish determine distance when striking at prey

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  Published 9th Jan 2020
• Student researchers make dismaying microplastics find in the Arctic Ocean

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  Published 7th Jan 2020
• Study shows animal life thriving around Fukushima

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  Published 7th Jan 2020
• Biggest bloom: 'world's largest' flower spotted in Indonesia

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  Published 5th Jan 2020
• Once unloved, threatened storks given new hope in Indian zoo

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  Published 5th Jan 2020
• Ferocious fires in Australia intensify

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  Published 3rd Jan 2020
• Palau bans 'reef-toxic' sunscreen

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  Published 3rd Jan 2020
• Students want climate change lessons. Schools aren't ready

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  Published 31st Dec 2019
• How do conifers survive droughts? Study points to existing roots, not new growth

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  Published 31st Dec 2019
• Biodiversity has substantially changed in one of the largest Mediterranean wetlands

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  Published 23rd Dec 2019
• The timeless appeal of an ocean pool: Turns out it's a good investment, too

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  Published 23rd Dec 2019
• Meerkat mobs do 'war dance' to protect territory

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  Published 19th Dec 2019
• The world's coral reefs are dying. Scientists in the Bahamas are searching for a chance for their survival

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  Published 18th Dec 2019
• Scientists find cheaper way to make hydrogen energy out of water

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  Published 17th Dec 2019
• New Australian shrimp species scales waterfalls, changes gender and eats using 'nets'

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  Published 17th Dec 2019
• Scientists find that unappetizing moths make less effort to escape attacking bats

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  Published 16th Dec 2019
• Study shows cover crops and perennials do not necessarily increase carbon storage in soil

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  Published 15th Dec 2019
• Azteca ant colonies move the same way leopards' spots form

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  Published 12th Dec 2019
• France bans two US pesticides, citing risk to bees

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  Published 8th Dec 2019
• Reduced soil tilling helps both soils and yields

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  Published 8th Dec 2019
• A 6,000-year-old fruit fly gave the world modern cheeses and yogurts

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  Published 8th Dec 2019
• New membrane technology to boost water purification and energy storage

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  Published 4th Dec 2019
• An electron highway headed for methanol

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  Published 30th Nov 2019
• Six scientific journals denounce Trump environmental reform

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  Published 27th Nov 2019
• Manta rays and whale sharks consuming massive amounts of plastics near Indonesia. Researchers report that the mantas were likely consuming approximately 63 pieces of plastic per hour, while the whale sharks were consuming on average 137 pieces of plastic per hour.

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  Published 25th Nov 2019
• Climate change reassessment prompts call for a 'more sober' discourse

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  Published 25th Nov 2019
• Overfishing of large, predatory fish leaves China's Bohai Sea with only tiny fish. Researchers found that the extirpation of large fish has even impacted the base of the food chain, and caused a decline in phytoplankton, the microorganisms in charge of fueling the entire marine food web.

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  Published 21st Nov 2019
• Implementing no-till and cover crops in Texas cotton systems

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  Published 18th Nov 2019
• Lies of the bamboo toothbrush: The plastic industry's perverse greenwashing

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  Published 14th Nov 2019
• Solar and wind energy preserve groundwater for drought, agriculture

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  Published 6th Nov 2019
• Intense monitoring and care lift mountain gorilla numbers. Instead of disappearing, the number of mountain gorillas has risen from 680 a decade ago to just over 1,000 today.

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  Published 4th Nov 2019
• Amazon's white bellbirds set new record for loudest bird call!

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  Published 24th Oct 2019
• Human medicines that act on important signal systems in the brain make fish bolder, shows a new study. Further, it shows that drugs that end up in the natural environment may have consequences for animal life.

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  Published 18th Oct 2019
• Buying less is better than buying 'green'—for the planet and your happiness

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  Published 9th Oct 2019
• Britain is a nation of pet lovers—& it has the Victorians to thank - Britain was 1st country in the world to start a welfare charity for animals, as early as 1824. In part, this was because of the new emphasis placed on home & domestic life.

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  Published 6th Oct 2019
• Astronauts replacing old batteries in 1st of 5 spacewalks

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  Published 6th Oct 2019
• Humanity's emissions '100-times greater' than volcanoes

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  Published 3rd Oct 2019
• France reports first case of fatal olive tree bacteria

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  Published 9th Sep 2019
• Microplastics are found in Lake Tahoe's waters for first time ever

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  Published 27th Aug 2019
• Researchers develop materials that can revolutionize how light is harnessed for solar energy

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  Published 21st Aug 2019
• Scientists extract hydrogen gas from oil and bitumen in the ground, giving potential pollution-free energy

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  Published 20th Aug 2019
• Organic food health benefits have been hard to assess, but that could change: no studies to date have been designed to answer the question of whether organic food consumption causes an improvement in health

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  Published 19th Aug 2019
• The Charney Report: 40 years ago, scientists accurately predicted climate change

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  Published 23rd Jul 2019
• Study highlights nitrogen efficiency gains in corn hybrids over 70 years

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  Published 14th Jul 2019
• Lack of crop diversity and increasing dependence on pollinators may threaten food security

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  Published 11th Jul 2019
• 11% of destroyed moist tropical forests could be restored to boost climate, environment

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  Published 4th Jul 2019
• Insect apocalypse: German bug watchers sound alarm, suggesting of what is described as one of Earth's worst extinction phases since the dinosaurs vanished

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  Published 3rd Jul 2019
• Study shows how to produce natural gas while storing carbon dioxide

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  Published 28th Jun 2019
• Wheat myth debunked by a major new study

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  Published 18th Jun 2019
• GE lost billions by 'misjudging' renewables: report

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  Published 6th Jun 2019
• World's second EPR nuclear reactor starts work in China

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  Published 31st May 2019
• New mutations for herbicide resistance rarer than expected, study finds

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  Published 29th May 2019
• Big Pharma emits more greenhouse gases than the automotive industry

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  Published 28th May 2019
• To save biodiversity and feed the future, first cure 'plant blindness', a term coined two decades ago by researchers who showed that modern civilization is perilously disconnected from the plant kingdom.

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  Published 28th May 2019
• TIL that for every bird killed by a wind turbine, coal kills over 2,000

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  Published 24th May 2019
• Fuel subsidies defy green trend amid rising climate alarm. But there is a growing consensus among economists that state-backed support for dirty energy is becoming increasingly hard to justify—both in financial and environmental terms.

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  Published 20th May 2019
• Article written by the University who discovered it ... is this a hydrogen infrastructure game changer?

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  Published 16th May 2019
• Scientists making strides to bigger solar batteries

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  Published 12th May 2019
• Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) call for global treaty on the ocean plastic crisis

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  Published 22nd Apr 2019
• Artificial intelligence speeds efforts to develop fusion energy

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  Published 18th Apr 2019
• Scientists discover, climb and describe the world's tallest tropical tree at 100.8 meters high. They have undertaken a three-dimensional exploration of the remarkable find.

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  Published 10th Apr 2019
• Canada gives nod to farm for genetically-modified salmon

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  Published 4th Apr 2019
• Bryozoan fossil (Jablonskipora kidwellae) fills a missing evolutionary link

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  Published 3rd Apr 2019
• Rapid increase of invasive species (ascidians, bryozoans, polychaetes, hydroids) at Galapagos Islands

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  Published 28th Mar 2019
• Feds could restrict Pacific Ocean fishing over endangered orcas, NOAA letter says

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  Published 15th Mar 2019
• Renewable energy reduces the highest electric rates in the nation

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  Published 15th Mar 2019
• Experts said Wednesday that at most only 22 vaquitas remain in the Gulf of California, where a grim, increasingly violent battle is playing out between emboldened fishermen and the last line of defense for the smallest and most endangered porpoise in the world.

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  Published 8th Mar 2019
• Worrying long-term stability of pesticides in honey: these pesticides did not degrade in honey over a period of 40 months

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  Published 25th Feb 2019
• More nutritious, natural flavor, non-GMO 'orange corn' launches in US markets: Torbert Rocheford developed the orange corn using traditional breeding techniques, rather than genetic modification

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  Published 12th Feb 2019
• New study explains how nanoparticles transfer energy efficiently

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  Published 11th Feb 2019
• Tokyo strikes gold, silver and bronze with e-waste Olympic medals

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  Published 10th Feb 2019
• Unraveling of 58-year-old corn gene mystery may have plant-breeding implications

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  Published 20th Jan 2019
• Tiny silicon particles could power lithium ion batteries with 10 times more capacity - Canada Research Chair in Nanomaterials for Energy

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  Published 18th Jan 2019
• Honey bee parasites feed on fatty organs, not blood new research shows.

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  Published 15th Jan 2019
• Mention of 'fossil fuels' cut from videos at UN climate talks

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  Published 17th Dec 2018
• Agricultural insecticide contamination threatens U.S. surface water integrity at the national scale

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  Published 7th Dec 2018
• Why battery-powered vehicles stack up better than hydrogen. The well-to-wheel losses of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles were found to be almost as high as fossil fuel vehicles. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, on average, require three to four times more energy than battery electric vehicles.

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  Published 30th Nov 2018
• France to close 14 nuclear reactors by 2035: Macron

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  Published 27th Nov 2018
• Human excrement efficiently converted to hydrochar

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  Published 21st Nov 2018
• New study: More flowers around apple orchards can yield higher harvest

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  Published 13th Nov 2018
• Organic farming methods favors pollinators: An extensive 3-year study from Lund University in Sweden has found that organic farming methods can contribute to halting the pollinator decline--due to both the absence of insecticides and a higher provision of flower resources

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  Published 11th Oct 2018