Submissions from phys.org

• Fishing less could be a win for both lobstermen and endangered whales

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  Published 28th May 2020
• Similar to humans, chimpanzees develop slowly

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  Published 28th May 2020
• Study finds effects of weather, time on wildlife sightings

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  Published 27th May 2020
• If you took to growing veggies in the coronavirus pandemic, then keep it up when lockdown ends

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  Published 27th May 2020
• Warming climate is changing where birds breed: study

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  Published 27th May 2020
• Climate change increases migration at the expense of the poor

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  Published 26th May 2020
• Be still, my beating wings: hunters kill migrating birds on their 10,000km journey to Australia

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  Published 26th May 2020
• Scientists find first evidence of microplastics passing from insects to predators in rivers

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  Published 24th May 2020
• Environmentalists suggest COVID-19 could represent a new opportunity for a more diverse future

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  Published 24th May 2020
• Sea turtle nesting in Florida: Loggerheads, leatherbacks off to strong start

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  Published 24th May 2020
• World can likely capture and store enough carbon dioxide to meet climate targets

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  Published 22nd May 2020
• Grasshoppers are perfectly aware of their own coloration when trying to camouflage

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  Published 22nd May 2020
• New velvet gecko discovered on one of Australia's northern islands

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  Published 22nd May 2020
• Tropical forests can handle the heat, up to a point

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  Published 22nd May 2020
• Scientists dissect the complex choices of animals

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  Published 21st May 2020
• Meet Africa's first pygmy seahorse species

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  Published 20th May 2020
• Lack of insects in cities limits breeding success of urban birds

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  Published 19th May 2020
• Even biodiverse coral reefs still vulnerable to climate change and invasive species

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  Published 19th May 2020
• Analysis of bird species reveals how wings adapted to their environment and behavior

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  Published 18th May 2020
• Modern sea-level rise linked to human activities, Rutgers research reaffirms

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  Published 17th May 2020
• Lock up your pet , it's a killing machine

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  Published 15th May 2020
• Scientists discover why some birds live fast and die young

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  Published 15th May 2020
• Research reveals the extent of grey seals' maternal sacrifice

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  Published 15th May 2020
• Over-harvesting could wipe out water frogs in parts of Turkey

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  Published 13th May 2020
• DNA surprises surfacing in the Atlantic: Species far from their usual southern homes

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  Published 13th May 2020
• You're not going far from home—and neither are the animals you spy out your window

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  Published 13th May 2020
• How planting a garden can boost bees, local food and resilience during the coronavirus crisis

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  Published 13th May 2020
• Rhino killed as poaching attempts increase amid India virus lockdown

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  Published 12th May 2020
• With attention on virus, Amazon deforestation surges

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  Published 11th May 2020
• Killing of rare river dolphins sparks poaching fears in Bangladesh lockdown

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  Published 11th May 2020
• Brazilian Amazon deforestation hits new Jan-Apr high

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  Published 11th May 2020
• New Asian Flyways Initiative to conserve wetlands for people and migratory birds

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  Published 8th May 2020
• Rising ocean temperatures threaten seagrass meadows and their ability to hold carbon

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  Published 6th May 2020
• Climate change could cause decline of some alpine butterfly species

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  Published 6th May 2020
• Predators help prey adapt to an uncertain future

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  Published 5th May 2020
• Indian officials capture rare snow leopard, send it to zoo

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  Published 4th May 2020
• Scientists Find Highest Ever Level of Microplastics on Seafloor

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  Published 1st May 2020
• Less air pollution means thousands fewer die

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  Published 30th Apr 2020
• Thousands of miles of planned Asian roads threaten the heart of tiger habitat

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  Published 30th Apr 2020
• White-faced capuchin monkeys come down from the trees on Panama's Coiba Island

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  Published 30th Apr 2020
• Study reveals important flowering plants for city-dwelling honey bees

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  Published 29th Apr 2020
• Invasive lionfish likely to become permanent residents in the Mediterranean

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  Published 29th Apr 2020
• How glow-in-the-dark jellyfish inspired a scientific revolution

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  Published 28th Apr 2020
• Coronavirus calm reveals flourishing Venice Lagoon ecosystem

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  Published 27th Apr 2020
• Warming climate undoes decades of knowledge of marine protected areas

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  Published 27th Apr 2020
• Zero-emissions Boston could save 288 lives and $2.4 billion annually

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  Published 24th Apr 2020
• When iron is limited, microalgae that live in coral cells may compensate with other metals

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  Published 24th Apr 2020
• Satellite data show 'highest emissions ever measured' from U.S. oil and gas operations

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  Published 23rd Apr 2020
• Hope for baobab on the brink as thousands of trees are planted in Madagascar

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  Published 23rd Apr 2020
• Can coral reefs 'have it all'?

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  Published 23rd Apr 2020
• Americans spend more on wasted food than on gasoline

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  Published 22nd Apr 2020
• Europe's wildlife sanctuaries struggle under virus lockdown

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  Published 22nd Apr 2020
• Scientists try 'cloud brightening' to protect Great Barrier Reef

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  Published 17th Apr 2020
• Plant diversity in European forests is declining

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  Published 14th Apr 2020
• Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions

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  Published 13th Apr 2020
• Deforestation surged following end of armed conflict in Colombia

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  Published 12th Apr 2020
• Risk aversion as a survival strategy in ants

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  Published 12th Apr 2020
• Long-living tropical trees play outsized role in carbon storage

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  Published 12th Apr 2020
• Global warming to cause 'catastrophic' species loss: study

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  Published 12th Apr 2020
• Great Barrier Reef suffers worst-ever coral bleaching: scientists

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  Published 8th Apr 2020
• The evolution of color: Team shows how butterfly wings can shift in hue

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  Published 8th Apr 2020
• Great apes and COVID-19: Experts raise the alarm for endangered species

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  Published 7th Apr 2020
• Climate change to affect fish sizes and complex food webs

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  Published 7th Apr 2020
• Indonesia covers up to protect orangutans from virus threat

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  Published 6th Apr 2020
• Plant root hairs key to reducing soil erosion

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  Published 5th Apr 2020
• Highest pre-modern lead pollution occurred 800 years ago

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  Published 3rd Apr 2020
• Dry lands may dry up from climate change

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  Published 3rd Apr 2020
• Why communities must be at the heart of conserving wildlife, plants and ecosystems

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  Published 3rd Apr 2020
• Scientists (from Ohio State East US) develop 'backpack' computers to track wild animals in hard-to-reach habitats. 'The work took about seven years, with computer scientists writing code from scratch to come up with the highest-performance network possible using ultra-low levels of energy.'

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  Published 3rd Apr 2020
• Researchers team up with U.S. Coast Guard to release three baby sea turtles

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  Published 3rd Apr 2020
• Vermont has conserved one third of the land needed for an ecologically functional future: "Nonprofits are engaging more and more deeply in restoring wetlands that were previously degraded, planting new forests along river shores.."

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  Published 2nd Apr 2020
• Landmark study concludes marine life can be rebuilt by 2050

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  Published 2nd Apr 2020
• American robins now migrate 12 days earlier than in 1994, say Columbia University researchers from NY: "We made these little harnesses out of nylon string," Oliver explained. "It basically goes around their neck, down their chest and through their legs, then back around to the backpack."

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  Published 2nd Apr 2020
• What can fruit flies teach us about how creatures find food?

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  Published 2nd Apr 2020
• Defaunation in rainforests could have more severe consequences than reported

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  Published 1st Apr 2020
• Honeyeaters send lightning-fast warning signals

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  Published 1st Apr 2020
• Nature takes back world's empty city streets

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  Published 31st Mar 2020
• 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