Submissions from phys.org

• Researcher proposes sea-level rise global observing system

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  Published 27th Oct 2020
• West Africa walkabout: The further adventures of the elephant brothers

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  Published 25th Oct 2020
• Hard to spot, but worth looking out for: 8 surprising tawny frogmouth facts

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  Published 21st Oct 2020
• Declines in shellfish species on rocky seashores match climate-driven changes. The waters of the Gulf of Maine are warming faster than oceans almost anywhere on Earth. And as the level of carbon dioxide rises in the atmosphere, it's absorbed by the oceans, causing pH levels to fall.

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  Published 20th Oct 2020
• Back in the pink: Hong Kong dolphins enjoy rare quiet as pandemic halts ferries

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  Published 16th Oct 2020
• Restoring 30% of the world's ecosystems in priority areas could stave off extinctions and absorb CO2

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  Published 15th Oct 2020
• Big payoff if Nature 'restored' in the right places

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  Published 15th Oct 2020
• Pollutants banned for over 30 years linger in UK rivers – our wildlife is the evidence

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  Published 12th Oct 2020
• Birds share food with less fortunate conspecifics

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  Published 12th Oct 2020
• Most nations failing to protect nature in COVID-19 pandemic recovery plans

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  Published 12th Oct 2020
• To protect nature's benefits, focus on people

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  Published 12th Oct 2020
• Japan seeks to boost catch limits of prized bluefin tuna

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  Published 7th Oct 2020
• Some bees are born curious while others are more single-minded

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  Published 7th Oct 2020
• National Zoo: Genetic tests reveal new baby panda is a boy

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  Published 6th Oct 2020
• Tracking sea turtle egg traffickers with GPS-enabled decoy eggs

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  Published 6th Oct 2020
• Pattern in whale songs predicts migration

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  Published 2nd Oct 2020
• Evidence of a cat recognizing and mimicking human behavior

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  Published 2nd Oct 2020
• The Arctic hasn't been this warm for 3 million years–and that foreshadows big changes for the rest of the planet

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  Published 1st Oct 2020
• Acropora spp. coral still thrives in the holdout refuge of Coral Gardens, Belize

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  Published 1st Oct 2020
• Baby boom at Taipei Zoo lightens pandemic blues

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  Published 30th Sep 2020
• China's air pollutant reduction success could make it tougher to control climate change

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  Published 29th Sep 2020
• Naked prehistoric monsters: Evidence that prehistoric flying reptiles probably had feathers refuted

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  Published 29th Sep 2020
• Salute the venerable ensign wasp, killing cockroaches for 25 million years

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  Published 29th Sep 2020
• Tree rings show scale of Arctic pollution is worse than previously thought

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  Published 25th Sep 2020
• Landmark release sees bilbies return to Sturt National Park in NSW

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  Published 25th Sep 2020
• Experts lead research into impact of climate change on rainforest elephants

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  Published 25th Sep 2020
• These birds communicate by fluttering their feathers—and they have different accents

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  Published 23rd Sep 2020
• Warming temperatures are driving Arctic greening

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  Published 23rd Sep 2020
• In Ecuador, pair of Andean condors revives hope for species' survival

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  Published 23rd Sep 2020
• Australian rescuers save 25 of 270 stranded whales so far

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  Published 22nd Sep 2020
• Rescuers race to save 180 stranded whales in Australia

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  Published 22nd Sep 2020
• Like humans, chimpanzees can suffer for life if orphaned before adulthood

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  Published 21st Sep 2020
• Two endangered Javan rhino calves spotted in Indonesian park

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  Published 21st Sep 2020
• Chimpanzees in volatile habitats evolved to behave more flexibly

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  Published 18th Sep 2020
• Home of 'Asian unicorn' becomes nature reserve in Vietnam

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  Published 17th Sep 2020
• Arctic transitioning to a new climate state

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  Published 15th Sep 2020
• The first step to conserving the Great Barrier Reef is understanding what lives there

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  Published 15th Sep 2020
• Climate change recasts the insect communities of the Arctic

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  Published 13th Sep 2020
• Humpback whales stray up tropical Aussie river

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  Published 13th Sep 2020
• Loss of sea otters accelerating the effects of climate change

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  Published 11th Sep 2020
• New tracking technology will help fight rhino poaching in Namibia

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  Published 10th Sep 2020
• Baboon matriarchs enjoy less stress

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  Published 10th Sep 2020
• New subspecies of the rarest Palaearctic butterfly found in the Arctic Circle of Yakutia

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  Published 9th Sep 2020
• Gulls pay attention to human eyes

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  Published 9th Sep 2020
• 'Wrong-way' migrations stop shellfish from escaping ocean warming

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  Published 8th Sep 2020
• In EU, 1 in 8 deaths linked to pollution: report

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  Published 8th Sep 2020
• Changing what we eat could offset years of climate-warming emissions, new analysis finds

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  Published 8th Sep 2020
• Acorn woodpeckers wage days-long battles over vacant territories, radio tag data show

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  Published 8th Sep 2020
• Australia likely to experience up to 35% more El Niños under new projections

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  Published 4th Sep 2020
• Scientists capture rare footage of mother skink fighting a deadly brown snake to protect her babies

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  Published 4th Sep 2020
• Pakistan's only Asian elephant prepared for new home

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  Published 4th Sep 2020
• Aviation contributes 3.5% to the drivers of climate change that stem from humans

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  Published 4th Sep 2020
• Red fox displaces Arctic fox thanks to littering

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  Published 3rd Sep 2020
• Notice me! Neglected for over a century, Black Sea spider crab re-described

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  Published 3rd Sep 2020
• Common species mirror rare animals' response to global change

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  Published 3rd Sep 2020
• Beavers appear to help the growth of brown trout in South America, study finds

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  Published 3rd Sep 2020
• Newly hatched Florida sea turtles are consuming dangerous quantities of floating plastic

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  Published 1st Sep 2020
• Following African elephant trails to approach conservation differently

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  Published 1st Sep 2020
• Discovery of an ancient dog species may teach us about human vocalization

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  Published 1st Sep 2020
• 770-pound crocodile caught at Outback tourist destination

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  Published 31st Aug 2020
• Habitats for endangered green sea turtles will be federally protected in Florida

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  Published 30th Aug 2020
• Here be methane: Scientists investigate the origins of a gaping permafrost crater

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  Published 30th Aug 2020
• Swiss to ban foreign trophy hunters from killing Alpine ibex

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  Published 30th Aug 2020
• The northern quoll: An amazingly versatile survivor?

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  Published 30th Aug 2020
• Galapagos: How to protect the islands' amazing marine life from huge Chinese fishing fleets

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  Published 27th Aug 2020
• Native desert bighorn sheep in ecologically intact areas are less vulnerable to climate change

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  Published 27th Aug 2020
• For survival, dolphins share fish and a little more

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  Published 26th Aug 2020
• Researcher uses computer modeling to predict reef health

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  Published 26th Aug 2020
• How zebrafish maintain efficient and fair foraging behaviours

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  Published 25th Aug 2020
• Birds of a feather flock together, but timing depends on typhoons

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  Published 25th Aug 2020
• 'The whole world celebrates' on-camera birth of panda cub

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  Published 24th Aug 2020
• Noise pollution causes chronic stress in birds, with health consequences for young

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  Published 23rd Aug 2020
• Ozone across northern hemisphere increased over past 20 years

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  Published 23rd Aug 2020
• Some Indian jumping ant workers can transition to a queen-like state

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  Published 21st Aug 2020
• Termite-fishing chimpanzees provide clues to the evolution of technology

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  Published 20th Aug 2020
• More eggs harvested from last 2 northern white rhinos

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  Published 19th Aug 2020
• Zebra stripes and their role in dazzling flies

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  Published 19th Aug 2020
• Tree ferns are older than dinosaurs. And that's not even the most interesting thing about them

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  Published 18th Aug 2020
• A new permit allows Northwest states and several Native American tribes to kill 540 California sea lions and 176 Steller sea lions over the next five years along a 180-mile stretch of the Columbia, from Portland to the McNary Dam upriver. The reason is to increase salmon population, and help Orcas.

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  Published 16th Aug 2020
• Gathering data to save a rare turtle

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  Published 16th Aug 2020
• Dolphin viewing more profitable than swimming in research

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  Published 16th Aug 2020
• How to get abandoned, lost and discarded 'ghost' fishing gear out of the ocean

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  Published 14th Aug 2020
• Gluten in wheat: What has changed during 120 years of breeding?

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  Published 14th Aug 2020
• Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea ice by 2035

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  Published 11th Aug 2020
• Sharing food aids monkey business

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  Published 11th Aug 2020
• Damaged ship leaking oil off Mauritius could split: PM

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  Published 10th Aug 2020
• Colorado Scientists (US) have found a promising group of materials for tomorrow's super-efficient solar cells, creating two-for-one energy from photons. This process of "singlet fission" could potentially be used to extract more energy from each absorbed photon than in a traditional solar cell.

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  Published 10th Aug 2020
• 'Thermal displacement' reflects how far species must go to follow preferred temperatures

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  Published 9th Aug 2020
• Between shark and ray: The evolutionary advantage of the sea angels

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  Published 6th Aug 2020
• Asian elephants are capable of using water as a tool

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  Published 6th Aug 2020
• New Guinea has the world's richest island flora

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  Published 6th Aug 2020
• Herbivores, not predators, most at risk of extinction

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  Published 6th Aug 2020
• Reduced coral reef fish biodiversity under temperatures that mirror climate predictions

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  Published 3rd Aug 2020
• US officials seek limits on "habitat" for imperiled species

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  Published 3rd Aug 2020
• Whale snot reveals likely poor health during migration

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  Published 31st Jul 2020
• Butterfly genomics: Monarchs migrate and fly differently, but meet up and mate

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  Published 30th Jul 2020
• My talk with Jane Goodall: Vegetarianism, animal welfare and the power of children's advocacy

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  Published 30th Jul 2020
• World tiger population grows but SE Asia threats 'critical': WWF

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  Published 29th Jul 2020
• Alaska is getting wetter. That's bad news for permafrost and the climate

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  Published 28th Jul 2020
• Butterflies wing their way into the garden with the proper room and board

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  Published 27th Jul 2020
• Desert mosses use quartz rocks as sun shades

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  Published 26th Jul 2020