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Newswise: Early-stage subduction invasion
Released: 15-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
Early-stage subduction invasion
Geological Society of America (GSA)

Our planet’s lithosphere is broken into several tectonic plates. Their configuration is ever-shifting, as supercontinents are assembled and broken up, and oceans form, grow, and then start to close in what is known as the Wilson cycle.

Newswise: How is deforested land in Africa used?
Released: 15-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
How is deforested land in Africa used?
GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam

Africa's forested areas – an estimated 14 % of the global forest area – are continuing to decline at an increasing rate – mostly because of human activities to convert forest land for economic purposes.

Newswise:Video Embedded meow-or-rooaaar-exotic-cats-ability-to-recognize-familiar-caregivers-voices
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Released: 15-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
Meow or rooaaar - exotic cats' ability to recognize familiar caregivers' voices
PeerJ

In a recent PeerJ Life & Environment study, Professor Jennifer Vonk from Oakland University presents compelling evidence that exotic cats possess the remarkable ability to discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human voices.

Newswise: Tawny owl’s pale grey color linked to vital functions ensuring survival in extreme conditions
Released: 14-Feb-2024 11:05 PM EST
Tawny owl’s pale grey color linked to vital functions ensuring survival in extreme conditions
University of Turku (Turun yliopisto)

A recent genetic discovery has revealed that the pale grey plumage of the tawny owl is linked to crucial functions that aid the bird's survival in cold environments.

Released: 14-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
Is the Amazon forest approaching a tipping point?
University of Birmingham

Global warming may be interacting with regional rainfall and deforestation to accelerate forest loss in the Amazon, pushing it towards partial or total collapse.

Released: 14-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
Amazon rainforest at the threshold: loss of forest worsens climate change
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

The Amazon rainforest could approach a tipping point, which could lead to a large-scale collapse with serious implications for the global climate system.

Newswise: If we can't untangle this mess, Norway's blue industry will never be green
Released: 13-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
If we can't untangle this mess, Norway's blue industry will never be green
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

One recent study estimates that the total amount of fishing line lost annually could stretch from the moon and back. A new study from Norway shows that roughly one-third of lines could be recycled.

Newswise: Polar bears unlikely to adapt to longer summers
Released: 13-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
Polar bears unlikely to adapt to longer summers
Washington State University

More time stranded on land means greater risk of starvation for polar bears, a new study indicates.

Newswise: Researchers learn how nectar-laden honey bees avoid overheating
Released: 13-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
Researchers learn how nectar-laden honey bees avoid overheating
University of Wyoming

Honey bees carrying nectar have the remarkable ability to adjust their flight behavior to avoid overheating when air temperatures increase, according to research led by a University of Wyoming scientist.

Released: 13-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
New AI tool helps leverage database of 10 million biology images
Ohio State University

Researchers have developed the largest-ever dataset of biological images suitable for use by machine learning – and a new vision-based artificial intelligence tool to learn from it.

Newswise: Five dazzling new species of eyelash vipers discovered in Colombia and Ecuador
Released: 13-Feb-2024 1:05 AM EST
Five dazzling new species of eyelash vipers discovered in Colombia and Ecuador
Pensoft Publishers

A group of scientists led by researchers of Khamai Foundation discovered five dazzling new species of eyelash vipers in the jungles and cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador.

Released: 12-Feb-2024 11:05 PM EST
When the global climate has the hiccups
University of Basel

In recent geological history, the so-called Quaternary period, there have been repeated ice ages and warm periods.

Released: 12-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Study: Global deforestation leads to more mercury pollution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

About 10 percent of human-made mercury emissions into the atmosphere each year are the result of global deforestation, according to a new MIT study.

Released: 12-Feb-2024 7:05 AM EST
WCS Statement from CMS CoP14
Wildlife Conservation Society

“If governments do everything they have committed to do, then the next ‘State of the World’s Migratory Species’ will have some good news.” WCS VP of International Policy Susan Lieberman

Newswise: Surprising behavior in one of the least studied mammals in the world
Released: 11-Feb-2024 9:05 PM EST
Surprising behavior in one of the least studied mammals in the world
University of Southern Denmark

Some animals live in such remote and inaccessible regions of the globe that it is nearly impossible to study them in their natural habitats.

Released: 9-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
Wildlife Conservation Society Delegation Heading to Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) CoP14
Wildlife Conservation Society

A Wildlife Conservation Society delegation is heading to the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals CoP14, Feb. 12-17, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Newswise: Surprise discovery of tiny insect-killing worm
Released: 8-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
Surprise discovery of tiny insect-killing worm
University of California, Riverside

UC Riverside scientists have discovered a tiny worm species that infects and kills insects.

Released: 7-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
New study sheds new light on forests' role in climate and water cycle
Stockholm University

Forests, which cover a third of Earth's land surface, are pivotal in carbon storage and the water cycle, though the full scope of their impact remains to be fully understood. In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from Stockholm University and international colleagues provide new insights into the complex role forests play in the climate system and water cycle.

Newswise: Inexpensive, carbon-neutral biofuels are finally possible
Released: 7-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Inexpensive, carbon-neutral biofuels are finally possible
University of California, Riverside

When it comes to making fuel from plants, the first step has always been the hardest — breaking down the plant matter

Released: 7-Feb-2024 5:00 AM EST
Nature is particularly beneficial for people on lower income
University of Vienna

Data from a representative sample of the Austrian population suggests that the relationship between nature contact and well-being is consistently stronger for people on lower than higher incomes.

   
Released: 6-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Mechanism of plants obtain nitrogen by supplying iron to symbiotic bacteria
University of Tsukuba

Leguminous plants have a mechanism (rhizobial symbiosis) to efficiently acquire nitrogen, which is an essential macronutrient for growth, through the nitrogen-fixing bacteria rhizobia.

Newswise: A rare recent case of retrovirus integration: An infectious gibbon ape leukaemia virus is colonising a rodent’s genome in New Guinea
Released: 5-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
A rare recent case of retrovirus integration: An infectious gibbon ape leukaemia virus is colonising a rodent’s genome in New Guinea
Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.

Retroviruses are viruses that multiply by incorporating their genes into the genome of a host cell. If the infected cell is a germ cell, the retrovirus can then be passed on to the next generation as an “endogenous” retrovirus (ERV) and spread as part of the host genome in that host species.

   
Newswise: Smells like evolution: Fruit flies reveal surprises in chemical sensing
Released: 5-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
Smells like evolution: Fruit flies reveal surprises in chemical sensing
Queen Mary University of London

A new study in Nature Communications unveils the hidden world of sensory evolution in fruit flies.

Newswise: Weather swings bring steadier results when studying crop adaptability
Released: 5-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
Weather swings bring steadier results when studying crop adaptability
Iowa State University

Efforts to breed more adaptable crops benefit from testing locations with wide ranges of weather, according to a study co-authored by an Iowa State University expert on phenotypic plasticity, the disparate ways plants respond in different environments.

Released: 5-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Small but mighty – study highlights the abundance and importance of the ocean’s tiniest inhabitants
University of Plymouth

Tiny plankton – measuring less than 20µm (or 0.02mm) in diameter – make up the majority of plankton in the ocean and play a critical role in the planet’s health, according to new research.

Released: 2-Feb-2024 5:05 AM EST
New study suggests culling animals who ‘don’t belong’ can be a flawed nature conservation practice
University of Oxford

New research published today in the journal Science has concluded that eradicating animals on the basis that they are not native in order to protect plant species, can be a flawed practice costing millions of dollars, and resulting in the slaughter of millions of healthy wild animals.

Released: 1-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Climate change: Fungal disease endangers wheat production
Technical University of Munich

Climate change poses a threat to yields and food security worldwide, with plant diseases as one of the main risks.

Newswise: Relocated songbirds can successfully learn the diversity of song they need to survive
Released: 1-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Relocated songbirds can successfully learn the diversity of song they need to survive
University of Plymouth

Nestling songbirds relocated as part of conservation programmes successfully learn the song repertoires they need to communicate – and ultimately survive – in the wild, a new study has found.

Newswise: Tidal landscapes a greater carbon sink than previously thought
Released: 1-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Tidal landscapes a greater carbon sink than previously thought
University of Gothenburg

Mangroves and saltmarshes sequester large amounts of carbon, mitigating the greenhouse effect.

Newswise: Plant receptors that control immunity and development share a common origin
Released: 1-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Plant receptors that control immunity and development share a common origin
RIKEN

Plants are continuously evolving new immune receptors to ever-changing pathogens.

Newswise: The Challenges and Charms of In-Person Observing
Released: 1-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
The Challenges and Charms of In-Person Observing
NSF's NOIRLab

NSF’s NOIRLab’s world-class observatories — Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Kitt Peak National Observatory, the International Gemini Observatory, and Vera C. Rubin Observatory — are built in some of the highest and driest locations on Earth, often situated far from major inhabited areas.

Newswise: El fascinante desafío de observar en persona
Released: 1-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
El fascinante desafío de observar en persona
NSF's NOIRLab

Los observatorios de clase mundial de NOIRLab de NSF: el Observatorio Cerro Tololo, el Observatorio Nacional Kitt Peak, el Observatorio Internacional Gemini y el Observatorio Vera C. Rubin, están construidos en algunos de los lugares más altos y secos del planeta, a menudo alejados de las principales áreas pobladas.

Newswise: France's National Center for Scientific Research and U.S. Department of Energy Sign 'Statement of Interest' on EIC Collaboration
Released: 1-Feb-2024 9:30 AM EST
France's National Center for Scientific Research and U.S. Department of Energy Sign 'Statement of Interest' on EIC Collaboration
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Representatives of France's National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have signed a new "Statement of Interest" in future cooperation on the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a unique facility for exploring the building blocks of matter and the strongest force in nature.

Newswise: Beyond Ice Cubes: Researchers Bring Complex Shapes to Sea-Ice Dynamics Models
Released: 31-Jan-2024 3:05 PM EST
Beyond Ice Cubes: Researchers Bring Complex Shapes to Sea-Ice Dynamics Models
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Researchers model sea ice dynamics and thermodynamics to understand its role in global climate.

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Newswise: Scientists Pinpoint Growth of Brain’s Cerebellum as Key to Evolution of Bird Flight
29-Jan-2024 12:00 PM EST
Scientists Pinpoint Growth of Brain’s Cerebellum as Key to Evolution of Bird Flight
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Evolutionary biologists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report they have combined PET scans of modern pigeons along with studies of dinosaur fossils to help answer an enduring question in biology: How did the brains of birds evolve to enable them to fly?

Released: 30-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
New research shows how pollutants from aerosols and river run-off are changing the marine phosphorus cycle in coastal seas
University of East Anglia

New research into the marine phosphorus cycle is deepening our understanding of the impact of human activities on ecosystems in coastal seas.

Newswise: Asparagus and orchids are more similar than you think
Released: 30-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Asparagus and orchids are more similar than you think
University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science

What does an asparagus have in common with a vanilla orchid? Not much, if you are just looking at the two plants’ appearances.

Newswise: How a walk in nature restores attention
Released: 29-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
How a walk in nature restores attention
University of Utah

Neural research conducted at Utah's Red Butte Garden uses EEG to measure brain activity on subjects after walks through nature and parking lots.

Released: 29-Jan-2024 6:00 AM EST
Inaugural Berkeley Haas Sustainable Business Research Prize awarded to paper on biodiversity risk
University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business

A team of researchers who developed tools for investors, academics, and businesses to measure economic risks from the loss of the planet’s biodiversity has won the inaugural Berkeley Haas Sustainable Business Research Prize.

Newswise: NUS scientists develop novel method to estimate biodiversity loss in Singapore over the past two centuries
Released: 29-Jan-2024 2:05 AM EST
NUS scientists develop novel method to estimate biodiversity loss in Singapore over the past two centuries
National University of Singapore (NUS)

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) employed novel statistical methods to reveal the extent of biodiversity loss in Singapore over the past two centuries.

Newswise: Teaching nature to break man-made chemical bonds
Released: 25-Jan-2024 3:05 PM EST
Teaching nature to break man-made chemical bonds
California Institute of Technology

For the first time, scientists have engineered an enzyme that can break stubborn man-made bonds between silicon and carbon that exist in widely used chemicals known as siloxanes, or silicones.

Newswise: Sika deer overpopulation endangers beech forests in Southern Kyushu, Japan
Released: 25-Jan-2024 9:05 AM EST
Sika deer overpopulation endangers beech forests in Southern Kyushu, Japan
Kyushu University

A new study reveals how soil erosion caused by sika deer foraging reduces the growth of the beech trees.

Newswise: Global groundwater depletion is accelerating, but is not inevitable
Released: 24-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
Global groundwater depletion is accelerating, but is not inevitable
University of California, Santa Barbara

Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature, UC Santa Barbara researchers present the largest assessment of groundwater levels around the world, spanning nearly 1,700 aquifers.

Newswise: Live animal transport regulations not ‘fit for purpose’, major international study finds
23-Jan-2024 5:05 AM EST
Live animal transport regulations not ‘fit for purpose’, major international study finds
University of Bristol

A ‘fitness check’ of regulations in five countries - Australia, Canada, New Zealand, EU (including UK) and US - meant to protect animals during transportation, has deemed that they all fall short of fully protecting animals during transport.

Newswise: Links discovered between weather patterns and power outages could help UK protect itself from disruptive weather, according to a new study
Released: 23-Jan-2024 5:05 AM EST
Links discovered between weather patterns and power outages could help UK protect itself from disruptive weather, according to a new study
University of Bristol

The behaviour of specific weather patterns and their impact on power faults could be used to develop a weather pattern-conditioned fault forecasting system for power system operators.

Newswise: Don’t blame the sharks: Research led by UMass Amherst reveals why more hooked tarpon are being eaten
Released: 22-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST
Don’t blame the sharks: Research led by UMass Amherst reveals why more hooked tarpon are being eaten
University of Massachusetts Amherst

In wave-making research recently published in Marine and Coastal Fisheries, a team of researchers, led by biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has quantified the rate at which great hammerhead sharks are eating Atlantic tarpon hooked by anglers at Bahia Honda, Florida—one of the prime tarpon fishing spots in the Florida Keys.

Newswise: New study unveiling the non-isotropic nature of tropospheric delay for high-precision GNSS positioning
Released: 22-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
New study unveiling the non-isotropic nature of tropospheric delay for high-precision GNSS positioning
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A new study unveils a critical aspect of tropospheric delays affecting Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) - their non-isotropic nature.



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