Scientists call for urgent action
Credit: CC0 Public Domain As climate change accelerates, scientists are sounding the alarm about its potentially devastating impact on the world’s food supply. In a paper published by Trends in …
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Global study points to a clear solution for the massive decline in sharks and rays
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new global study blames overfishing for a more than 50% decline in sharks and rays since 1970, but also shows a clear path to preventing …
Experiments provide evidence that interaction of light with a hydrocarbon molecule produces strained molecular rings
A gas-phase X-ray scattering experiment captures cyclopentadiene rapidly transforming into the strained bicyclo[2.1.0]pentene. This structure change is triggered by a pump pulse (blue) and detected through X-ray scattering (yellow). Credit: …
Environmental pollutant decreases by half after passing through digestive tract of marine worm in Japan, study finds
Red circles in (A) and (B) show the location of the Yoro tidal flat. The dashed ellipse in (C) shows the sampling area, from where the fecal pellets of Marphysa …
Citizen scientist data help uncover the mysteries of a blue low-latitude aurora
One of the two photographs that captured blue-dominant aurora and were analyzed in this study. Credit: Takuya Usami Colorful auroras appeared around Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands on May 11, …
Mangroves save $855 billion in flood protection globally, report finds
Mangroves in Alice Town, Bahamas. Credit: Jessica Kendall-Bar, UC San Diego Mangroves have been shown to provide $855 billion in flood protection services worldwide, according to a new study from …
Feral female buffalo build friendships based on similar personality traits, study reveals
Female buffaloes rest in the fields of Pui O on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, in September 2023. Credit: Dr Debottam Bhattacharjee Similar social personalities strongly influence friendships in humans, yet …
On climate change, the international court of justice faces a pivotal choice
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain What legal obligations do states have to fight climate change? Should high-emitting countries be held responsible for the harm they’ve caused? And should states safeguard the …
Atlantic salmon need saving, but current conservation measures could do more harm than good
Atlantic salmon. Credit: Timothy Knepp, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain The Cairngorms national park has some of Scotland’s wildest rivers. The Spey, Dee and Tay are famous for …
Not too warm and not too cold—finding the Goldilocks Zone of the Great Barrier Reef
The maps show the Great Barrier Reef and the drilling locations where the cores used in the new study led by Kiel University were taken (zoomed-out map). Also shown are …