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UCLA life scientists present new insights on climate change and species interactions

UCLA life scientists provide important new details on how climate change will affect interactions between species in research published online May 21 in the Journal of Animal Ecology. ...
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Bird’s playlist could signal mental strengths and weaknesses

Photo by: Robert Lachlan, Duke Having the biggest playlist doesn't make a male songbird the brainiest of the bunch, a new study shows. "For songbirds, singing a lot of songs indicates ...
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Study reveals how fishing gear can cause slow death of whales

Scientists from NOAA Fisheries Service approaching the young North Atlantic right whale they disentangled on January 15 off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Fla. Credit: NOAA with permission ...
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Climate change and wildfire

Synthesis of recent findings Concerns continue to grow about the effects of climate change on fire. Wildfires are expected to increase 50 percent across the United States under a changing ...
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Abundance and distribution of Hawaiian coral species predicted by model

Abundant corals are shown in a shallow Hawaiian lagoon. Credit: Keoki Stender Researchers from the University of Hawaii – Manoa (UHM) School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology ...
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WCS informs discussion of responses to a changing Arctic

Increased numbers of walrus on haul-outs are being observed due to receding summer sea ice in the Arctic. As many as 100,000 have been reported on land at one time at Cape Serdtse-Kamen ...
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Not just blowing in the wind: Compressing air for renewable energy storage

Study IDs 2 compressed air energy storage methods, sites for the Northwest Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Enough Northwest wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each ...
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Amazon River exhales virtually all carbon taken up by rain forest

The mouth of the Amazon River has three main channels, with an island the size of Switzerland in the middle. Credit: NASA The Amazon rain forest, popularly known as the lungs of the ...
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New NOAA report examines national oil pollution threat from shipwrecks

Report presented to U.S. Coast Guard for use in contingency plans Disabled T/B DBL 152 vessel discharges oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2005. Credit: ENTRIX, Inc. NOAA presented to ...
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Why we need to put the fish back into fisheries

Atlantic Cod Overfishing has reduced fish populations and biodiversity across much of the world's oceans. In response, fisheries are increasingly reliant on a handful of highly valuable ...
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Why we need to put the fish back into fisheries

Atlantic Cod Overfishing has reduced fish populations and biodiversity across much of the world's oceans. In response, fisheries are increasingly reliant on a handful of highly valuable ...
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Front-row seats to climate change

Amphibians and climate change By day, insects provide the white noise of the South, but the night belongs to the amphibians. In a typical year, the Southern air hangs heavy from the ...
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The genome sequence of Tibetan antelope sheds new light on high-altitude adaptation

Why Tibetan antelope can live at elevations of 4,000-5,000m on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau? In a collaborative research published in Nature Communications, investigators from Qinghai ...
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton & Harrison Ford Lead Provocative Conversation on Conservation

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Harrison Ford on stage for Conservation International. Credit: Conservation International Conservation International Board member Harrison ...
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Research into carbon storage in Arctic tundra reveals unexpected insight into ecosystem resiliency

The US Arctic LTER greenhouse in peak autumn and early winter. Credit: Sadie Iverson (autumn), and Josh Schimel (winter) When UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Seeta Sistla and her ...
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