Submissions from phys.org

• 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
• Butterflies can acquire new scent preferences and pass them on to their offspring

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  Published 4th Feb 2020
• Relative of extinct tortoise located in Galapagos

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  Published 4th Feb 2020
• Robotic submarine snaps first-ever images at foundation of notorious Antarctic glacier

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  Published 3rd Feb 2020
• Study identifies the first potentially invasive species to reach the Antarctica on drifting marine algae

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  Published 3rd Feb 2020
• Research shows airborne microbes link Great Barrier Reef and Australian continent

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  Published 31st Jan 2020
• Trees might be 'aware' of their size

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  Published 31st Jan 2020
• Scientists learn how plants manipulate their soil environment to assure a cheap, steady supply of nutrients

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  Published 31st Jan 2020
• Diving into Denver's geese controversy

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  Published 30th Jan 2020
• Screening sweet peppers for organic farming

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  Published 30th Jan 2020
• Beating the heat in the living wings of butterflies

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  Published 29th Jan 2020
• Study connects marine heat wave with spike in whale entanglements

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  Published 28th Jan 2020
• British carbon tax leads to 93% drop in coal-fired electricity

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  Published 27th Jan 2020
• The skin of the earth is home to pac-man-like protists

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  Published 27th Jan 2020
• Crab larvae off Oregon and Washington suffering shell damage from ocean acidification, new research shows

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  Published 27th Jan 2020
• Your plane travel destroys polar bear habitat

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  Published 27th Jan 2020
• Scientists to search for relatives of extinct Galapagos tortoises

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  Published 27th Jan 2020
• Researcher looking for clues in the mystery of the Grand Canyon's water supply

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  Published 27th Jan 2020
• The yellow black-faced triplefin deflects sunlight to break predator camouflage

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  Published 23rd Jan 2020
• Walking sharks discovered in the tropics

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  Published 22nd Jan 2020
• Organic crop practices affect long-term soil health

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  Published 22nd Jan 2020
• 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