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Newswise: All creatures great and small: Sequencing the blue whale and Etruscan shrew genomes
Released: 18-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
All creatures great and small: Sequencing the blue whale and Etruscan shrew genomes
University of Wisconsin–Madison

The blue whale genome was published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, and the Etruscan shrew genome was published in the journal Scientific Data.

Newswise: Backyard insect inspires invisibility devices, next gen tech
Released: 18-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Backyard insect inspires invisibility devices, next gen tech
Penn State Materials Research Institute

Leafhoppers, a common backyard insect, secrete and coat themselves in tiny mysterious particles that could provide both the inspiration and the instructions for next-generation technology, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers.

Newswise: Unlocking Clearer Views of Our Water Worlds: A Landsat Legacy
Released: 18-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Unlocking Clearer Views of Our Water Worlds: A Landsat Legacy
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A study highlights the significant advancements in water environment analysis facilitated by the Landsat missions. This research, for the first time, offers a comprehensive global assessment of cloud-free observations (NCOs) from Landsat, underscoring its pivotal role in environmental and hydrological studies.

Released: 15-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Tropical Plants Beat Drought by Interacting with Specific Microbes
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory - EMSL

Researchers from the University of Arizona and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a Department of Energy user facility, discovered that that plants can maintain specific microbe partnerships during times of drought, revealing a new level of resilience.

Newswise: Two Lambs Debut at Central Park Zoo – Bobbin and Sage
Released: 15-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Two Lambs Debut at Central Park Zoo – Bobbin and Sage
Wildlife Conservation Society

Born this winter, Bobbin, 7 weeks old; and Sage, 3 weeks old have joined a flock of 8 adult sheep in the Tisch Children’s Zoo.

Newswise: China's Urban Jungles: How City Parks are Winning the Battle Against Concrete
Released: 15-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
China's Urban Jungles: How City Parks are Winning the Battle Against Concrete
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Recent studies highlight a significant transformation in China’s urban landscape, where the greening of city cores is compensating for vegetation loss in expanding urban areas.

Newswise: A Green Revolution: How Our Forests are Changing and What It Means for the Planet
Released: 15-Mar-2024 7:10 AM EDT
A Green Revolution: How Our Forests are Changing and What It Means for the Planet
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A recent study reveals significant shifts in the composition of global forests and their carbon stocks from 2001 to 2020.

Newswise: Tsetse fly fertility damaged after just one heatwave, study finds
11-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Tsetse fly fertility damaged after just one heatwave, study finds
University of Bristol

The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single burst of hot weather, researchers at the University of Bristol and Stellenbosch University in South Africa have found.

Newswise: Who knew that eating poo was so vital for birds’ survival?
Released: 12-Mar-2024 6:05 PM EDT
Who knew that eating poo was so vital for birds’ survival?
University of South Australia

New research led by the University of South Australia explains how eating faeces (known as coprophagy) shapes wild birds’ digestive tracts (gut biota), enabling them to absorb lost or deficient nutrients and adjust to seasonal variations in food sources.

Newswise: Comparison of diploid and triploid hybrid fish from the same parents
Released: 12-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Comparison of diploid and triploid hybrid fish from the same parents
Chinese Academy of Sciences

The researchers carried out a hybridization experiment between female koi carp and male Chinese rare minnow, eventually obtaining allodiploid and allotriploid hybrid offspring. They made a systemic comparison between them and found that the triploid hybrids showed faster growth, higher expression of growth-promoting genes and lower expression of growth-inhibiting genes than the diploid hybrids. This study provides implications to explain the faster growth of polyploid fish.

Released: 8-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EST
SMART Global Congress Set to Meet in Namibia, March 10-14
Wildlife Conservation Society

The SMART Partnership is pleased to announce the inaugural SMART Global Congress in Windhoek, Namibia from 10-14 March 2024.

Newswise: How Does a River Breathe?
Released: 5-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EST
How Does a River Breathe?
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL scientists have been studying how rivers and streams breathe. Their research focuses on respiration, organic matter, and natural disturbances that affect rivers and streams.

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Released: 5-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EST
"Flying Tigers" Come to Live Cornell Bird Cams Project
Cornell University

A streaming camera has gone live on the Great Horned Owl named Athena. She's nested for more than a dozen years at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas. Now, everyone can see her family grow.

Newswise:Video Embedded research-explores-the-cooling-effects-of-scuba-diving-in-lizards
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Released: 4-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EST
Research explores the cooling effects of ‘scuba-diving’ in lizards
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Anoles are the scuba-diving champions of the lizard world, able to stay underwater for more than 16 minutes. For animals whose body temperature depends on the environment, time spent in a cool running stream can have some tradeoffs, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.

28-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Extreme Weather Events Tied to Increased Mortality and Emergency Department Activity
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Mass General Brigham study reveals that ED visits and death are heightened weeks after major climate-driven extreme weather events – highlighting the long-lasting impacts these events may have on health and infrastructure

   
Newswise: Bottlenecks and beehives: how an invasive bee colony defied genetic expectations
27-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
Bottlenecks and beehives: how an invasive bee colony defied genetic expectations
University of Sydney

For more than a decade, invasive Asian honeybees have defied evolutionary expectations and established a thriving population in North Queensland, much to the annoyance of the honey industry and biosecurity officials.

Newswise: Drying without dying: Tracing water scarcity coping mechanisms from mosses to flowering plants
Released: 28-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
Drying without dying: Tracing water scarcity coping mechanisms from mosses to flowering plants
Boyce Thompson Institute

Imagine: You find the dried-up remains of a once green and lush philodendron on your bookshelf and realize you can’t remember the last time you watered your houseplants.

Released: 27-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
UMass Amherst scientists propose new method for tracking elusive origins of CO2 emissions from streams
University of Massachusetts Amherst

A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst that specializes in accounting for the carbon dioxide release by streams, rivers and lakes recently demonstrated that the chemical process known as “carbonate buffering” can account for the majority of emissions in highly alkaline waters.

Newswise: Gardeners can help identify potentially invasive plants
Released: 27-Feb-2024 9:05 PM EST
Gardeners can help identify potentially invasive plants
Pensoft Publishers

The critical role of gardeners in identifying 'future invaders' - ornamental plants that could become invasive species – has been revealed by researchers from the University of Reading and the Royal Horticultural Society.

Released: 27-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
Polar climates changing in fundamental ways
American Meteorological Society (AMS)

New research in journals of the American Meteorological Society suggest altered ocean-sea ice dynamics, dampened temperature extremes, differing responses to solar radiation.



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