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Swedish sand lizards like climate change
Posted: October 11, 2015Higher temperatures result in Swedish sand lizards laying their eggs earlier, which leads to better fitness and survival in their offspring, according to research published in the open access journal BMC…
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The relationship between carbon cycles and climate
Posted: October 10, 2015Making predictions about climate variability often means looking to the past to find trends. Now paleoclimate researchers from the University of Missouri have found clues in exposed bedrock alongside an…
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Ecotourism can put wild animals at risk
Posted: October 9, 2015Ecotourism, in which travelers visit natural environments with an eye toward funding conservation efforts or boosting local economies, has become increasingly popular in recent years. In many cases it involves…
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Study of China's Yellow River yields unexpected information about the Earth's climate history
Posted: October 9, 2015By meticulously examining sediments in China's Yellow River, a Swedish-Chinese research group are showing that the history of tectonic and climate evolution on Earth may need to be rewritten. Their…
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Mars once supported lakes of liquid water
Posted: October 9, 2015A new study from the team behind NASA's Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity has confirmed that Mars was once, billions of years ago, capable of storing water in lakes over an extended…
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Why Elephants Rarely Get Cancer
Posted: October 8, 2015Why elephants rarely get cancer is a mystery that has stumped scientists for decades. A study led by researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah and…
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Chernobyl considered unlikely nature reserve for some species
Posted: October 8, 2015When you think of Chernobyl you probably think along the lines of “nuclear disaster” and a “no-go” area, but new research shows that with humans now absent from the region,…
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Solar powered water purification
Posted: October 8, 2015Deep in the jungles of the Yucatan peninsula, residents of the remote Mexican village of La Mancalona are producing clean drinking water using the power of the sun.For nearly two…
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Arsenic found in many US red wines
Posted: October 7, 2015A new University of Washington study that tested 65 wines from America’s top four wine-producing states — California, Washington, New York and Oregon — found all but one have arsenic…
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Arctic butterflies adapt to warming climate by getting smaller
Posted: October 7, 2015New research shows that butterflies in Greenland have become smaller in response to increasing temperatures due to climate change. It has often been demonstrated that the ongoing rapid climate change in…
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