Submissions from phys.org

• 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 10th 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 28th 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 7th 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 29th 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 19th 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 28th 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
• Humans delayed the onset of the Sahara desert by 500 years

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  Published 3rd Oct 2018
• Study examines foraging of mountain gorillas for sodium-rich foods

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  Published 20th Sep 2018
• The adoption of "silvopastures"—incorporating trees into pastureland—can provide habitat for forest bird species and improve connectivity in landscapes fragmented by agriculture

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  Published 20th Sep 2018
• Measuring pesticide quantity alone does not determine the risk: The threats that pesticides pose to the environment cannot easily be determined by measurements of quantity--Extreme risks remain undetected

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  Published 10th Sep 2018
• Climate negotiator warns world 'out of time' to save islands

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  Published 7th Sep 2018
• Arizona canyon famed for waterfalls to reopen after flooding

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  Published 3rd Sep 2018
• Study shows forest conservation is a powerful tool to improve nutrition in developing nations

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  Published 17th Aug 2018
• Study finds 29 pesticides in Devon river

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  Published 11th Jul 2018
• The physics of better batteries

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  Published 27th Jun 2018
• Mexico jaguar population grows 20% in eight years

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  Published 15th Jun 2018
• Beavers help reduce fertiliser runoff and buffer against soil erosion, research reveals

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  Published 8th Jun 2018
• CRISPR-edited rice plants produce major boost in grain yield

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  Published 22nd May 2018
• Large predators once hunted to near-extinction are showing up in unexpected places

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  Published 9th May 2018
• Corn with straw mulch builds yield, soil carbon

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  Published 25th Apr 2018
• Researchers prove complex connection between plants and what soil microbes eat

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  Published 28th Mar 2018
• Scientists identify factors which drive the evolution of GMO herbicide resistance

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  Published 27th Mar 2018
• How royal jelly helps honeybee larvae defy gravity and become queens

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  Published 16th Mar 2018
• The only known ant to consistently defeat fire ants does not bite or sting...

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  Published 14th Mar 2018
• Improving swine waste fertilizer - July 2008

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  Published 4th Mar 2018
• How fungi make nutrients available to the world

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  Published 2nd Feb 2018
• Agricultural parasite takes control of host plant's genes

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  Published 4th Jan 2018
• Nature has its own way bringing things back!

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  Published 8th Dec 2017
• Saving Cavendish: Team grows world-first Panama disease-resistant bananas

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  Published 16th Nov 2017
• Researchers working to mimic giant clams to enhance the production of biofuel

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  Published 3rd Nov 2017
• Biochar shows benefits as manure lagoon cover

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  Published 2nd Nov 2017
• New fractal-like concentrating solar power receivers are better at absorbing sunlight

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  Published 27th Oct 2017