Tropical rainforest landscapes are threatened by the industrial agricultural expansion, which leads to forest fragmentation and habitat loss. The remaining wildlife is found in low…
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Increase in greenhouse gases has caused generalized global warming, mainly from the mid-1970s in the Southern Hemisphere. It is expected that these temperature trends will be…
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Massive flooding from storm surges is a major threat to lives and property in low-lying coastal areas during cyclones. The impacts are particularly disastrous when…
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The past can leave significant and surprising legacies Preserving large connected areas of valuable vegetation types in their natural, or essentially unmodified state, is a…
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Consistent genetic and epigenetic regulation is required to sustain the complex homeostasis that is life, and it seems that a degree of this regulation continues…
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Acid mine drainage (AMD) is an acidic mineral solution that flows out of a mine. The phenomenon in question is spontaneous and involves metal sulfides…
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Fruit bats are known to be able to discriminate, select, and track the essential oils of their preferred fruits. A few years ago, our research…
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Soil organic matter is the focus of much ongoing research because, in addition to being a fundamental driver of soil fertility, more than half of…
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Perhaps it is Facebook or perhaps it is our current political moment, but it seems more apparent than ever that we live in intellectual silos,…
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Once more, an unexpected fossil insect has been discovered in fossil amber from Myanmar — commonly called Burmese amber. The wasp, which now was described as…
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Multiunit systems rely on the capacity to socially interact. For example, multicellular organisms, such as ourselves, comprise differentiated tissues that are composed of tens of…
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