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Life after death? Fossil survival strategy rediscovered in living corals
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Life after death? Fossil survival strategy rediscovered in living corals

Corals are impacted by climate change worldwide. Monitoring the Mediterranean coral Cladocora caespitosa during 16 yrs allowed us to discover that some...

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Climatic Changes for Earths in Sun-like Stellar Binaries
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Climatic Changes for Earths in Sun-like Stellar Binaries

Climate cycles are influenced by the changes in a planet's axial tilt or obliquity. Stellar binary companions can alter a planet's obliquity quite...

4 min read6,240 views
Groundwater pumping poses worldwide threat to riverine ecosystems
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Groundwater pumping poses worldwide threat to riverine ecosystems

We pump too much water out of the ground, impacting our rivers worldwide. Our study estimates that almost 20% of the catchments where groundwater is pumped for...

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Of pig-tails and palm oil: How rat-eating macaques increase oil palm sustainability
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Of pig-tails and palm oil: How rat-eating macaques increase oil palm sustainability

Conversion of tropical forests into agriculture reduces wildlife habitats and leads to biodiversity losses and human-wildlife conflicts. Here, we present an...

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Pliocene sea level snapshots
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Pliocene sea level snapshots

Geological evidence from a Mallorcan coastal cave in the western Mediterranean Sea shed new light on past sea level. The results indicate that sea level was up...

3 min read5,949 views
Why does biodiversity matter for agriculture?
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Why does biodiversity matter for agriculture?

Our study demonstrates the benefits of biodiversification for agriculture. In essence, agricultural fields with greater biodiversity are better protected from...

3 min read9,497 views
The proof of the pudding: Past sea-level change
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The proof of the pudding: Past sea-level change

A new record of past sea-level change for 3 million years ago when the global climate was 2 degrees warmer and the implications for ice sheet response in the...

4 min read4,979 views
Honeydew: the sweet that can become toxic
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Honeydew: the sweet that can become toxic

Neonicotinoids kill beneficial insects when they feed on honeydew. Honeydew is the excretion product of phloem-feeding hemipteran insects such as aphids,...

4 min read14,356 views
Lake mud reveals the fate of an ancient Maya city
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Lake mud reveals the fate of an ancient Maya city

We have discovered not only what happened to the people of an abandoned ancient Maya city, but the exact day that much of the population disappeared. The study...

4 min read5,928 views
Rapid increase of nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan may lead to local and global catastrophes
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Rapid increase of nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan may lead to local and global catastrophes

A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could be triggered by the ongoing conflict over Kashmir. The direct effects of this nuclear exchange would be...

4 min read6,531 views