Earth

Living in groups may have several advantages such as protection from predators or help in raising young ones, but living in groups also has one…
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With the rapid expansion of industrialization and urbanization around the world, resource shortages (especially for fossil energy) have posed a major challenge for modern human…
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Although a great deal of attention has rightly been paid to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change, there are other equally important planetary boundaries that…
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In several countries like China or Vietnam, open-pit coal mining is one of the major causes of pollution (freshwater, soil, or air). Indeed, overburden and…
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Playing the Easter Bunny has a long and illustrious history in the field of animal behavior. Two of three ethologists to ever win the Nobel…
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Clay minerals consist of a fine-grained material which is classified according to their crystal structure into four major groups: kaolinite, chlorite, illite, and smectite. These…
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Today’s failures in solid waste management is a situation that jeopardizes our environment in huge ways: landfills are the third largest anthropogenic source of methane…
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In public transportation, power generation gen-sets, or pumps in farms, Compression Ignition (CI) engines are generally preferred as they are more efficient and cheaper. However,…
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Black-capped chickadees are food-storing passerines that are able to keep track of thousands of stored food locations called caches (Sherry, 1984; Healy & Hurly, 2004)….
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Many agronomic systems could be at risk considering short-term climate changes, but the numerous processes at stake and their interactions are still hard to predict….
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Ongoing large-scale and dramatic human-induced environmental changes in climate and land use cause major challenges to the long-term survival of wildlife populations. One way for…
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