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Daily news of Ecology
Earth Science
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- NASA Super-TIGER balloon shatters flight record
- Australia: Nullarbor region once full of fast-flowing rivers
- Health and environment: A closer look at plastics
- Scientists underestimated potential for Tohoku earthquake: Now what?
- BPA substitute could spell trouble: Experiments show bisphenol S also disrupts hormone activity
- First Global Assessment of Land and Water ‘Grabbing’
- Antibacterial agent used in common soaps found in increasing amounts in freshwater lakes
- How to get Mediterranean and Black Seas clean, healthy and productive by 2020
- Did an 8th century gamma ray burst irradiate Earth?
Environmental Issues
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- Residents near Chinese e-waste site face greater cancer risk
- Analysis of fracking wastewater yields some surprises
- Cotton with special coating collects water from fogs in desert
- Nanowires fuel breakthrough for solar energy
- Thin film solar cells: New world record for solar cell efficiency
- Doubling down on energy efficiency
- Bio-tiles and heat-resistant biopolymers
- Rolling dice reveals level of illegal badger killing
- High-voltage vacuum power switch for smart power grids: World's first successful power switch using diamond semiconductor
Environmental Science
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- Trading wetlands no longer a 'deal with the devil'
- Marginal lands are prime fuel source for alternative energy
- Biocomposites containing peat fiber for making new kinds of biodegradable products
- Scientists 'surprised' to discover very early ancestors survived on tropical plants, new study suggests
- Elk bones tell stories of life, death, and habitat use at Yellowstone National Park
- Wildfires light up western Australia
- Tiny structure gives big boost to solar power
- Synthetic fuel could eliminate U.S. need for crude oil, researchers say
- Invasive grass fuels increased fire activity in the West
Natural Disasters
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- Seismic fabric coming on the market
- New meteorite suggests that asteroid surfaces more complex than previously thought
- Seeing stars, finding nukes: Radio telescopes can spot clandestine nuclear tests
- Pacific Northwest and Himalayas could experience major earthquakes, geophysicists say
- Russian Far East holds seismic hazards: Potential to trigger tsunamis that pose risk to Pacific Basin
- First-ever hyperspectral images of Earth's auroras: New camera provides tantalizing clues of new atmospheric phenomenon
- How does a volcanic crater grow? Grab some TNT and find out
- Models for evacuation procedures in big cities after massive earthquakes
- 9.2-million-year-old rhino skull preserved by instant 'cooking to death' in volcanic ash
Agriculture & Food
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- Fighting back against citrus greening
- Depression-era drainage ditches emerge as sleeping threat to Cape Cod salt marshes
- Fruit and vegetable intake is associated with lower risk of ER- breast cancer
- 'Scarecrow' gene: Key to efficient crops, could lead to staple crops with much higher yields
- Many apples a day keep the blues at bay
- More small meat-eating dinosaurs than thought
- Hailstones reveal life in a storm cloud
- Parasites of Madagascar's lemurs expanding with climate change
- Breakthrough: How salt stops plant growth
Animals
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- New control strategies for 'bipolar' bark beetles
- Almost 500 new species discovered at Senckenberg: Newly discovered species in 2011 and 2012
- HIV-like viruses in non-human primates have existed much longer than previously thought
- Extinction rates not as bad as feared ... for now: Scientists challenge common belief
- Immune cell suicide alarm helps destroy escaping bacteria
- Female mice exposed to BPA by mothers show unexpected characteristics
- Dung beetles follow the milky way: Insects found to use stars for orientation
- New dinosaur fossil challenges bird flight origins theories
- Pavlov's rats? Rodents trained to link rewards to visual cues
Ecology
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- Microbiologists eavesdrop on the hidden lives of microbes
- New way to battle bacteria
- How the purple and pink sunscreens of reef corals work
- Tiny fossils hold answers to big questions on climate change: Research explores 12,000 year fossil record
- Paradise found for Latin America's largest land mammal
- Synchrotron infrared unveils a mysterious microbial community
- How can evolutionary biology explain why we get cancer?
- Tiny molecules preserve stem cells: Research shows what makes constant plant growth possible
- They hunt, they kill, they cheat: Single-celled algae shed light on social lives of microbes
Life Sciences
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- Computer scientists develop new way to study molecular networks
- Cells 'flock' to heal wounds: Researchers analyze physics of epithelial cell cooperation
- Synthetic corkscrew peptide kills antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacteria
- Drinking water unexpectedly rich in microbial life
- Modifications of a nanoparticle can change chemical interactions with cell membranes
- Socially isolated rats are more vulnerable to addiction, report researchers
- Retrovirus in the human genome is active in pluripotent stem cells
- Putting the squeeze on cells: By deforming cells, researchers can deliver RNA, proteins and nanoparticles for many applications
- Emerging antibiotic resistance in Listeria discovered in frozen burger patties
Microbes and More
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- Unnecessary antimicrobial use increases risk of recurrent infectious diarrhea
- A rapid test for fungus that caused injection deaths
- Effects of antibiotics on gut flora analyzed
- Disappearing bacterium may protect against stroke
- New biochip technology uses tiny whirlpools to corral microbes
- Under the weather, literally: More rainfall and bigger storms may lead to more stomach upsets
- Breast milk contains more than 700 species of bacteria, Spanish researchers find
- Rethinking bacterial persistence: Optofluidics allow for new understanding of resistance to antibiotics
- Hydrogen peroxide vapor enhances hospital disinfection of superbugs
Severe Weather
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- Northeast U.S. sees second driest November in more than a century
- More intense North Atlantic tropical storms likely in the future
- More solid measure of melting in polar ice sheets: Planet's two largest ice sheets losing ice fast
- NASA's TRMM satellite confirms 2010 landslides
- Polar perils: Activity in the Arctic is on the increase, but how safe is it to operate there?
- Thousands of natural gas leaks discovered in Boston
- Van Allen Probes: NASA renames radiation belt mission to honor pioneering scientist
- Tracking post-Sandy sewage
- Firestation: Getting ready for launch