The Great Barrier Reef stretches for over a thousand miles along Australia’s northeastern coast. “The idea here is to use an automated technique that allows us to target delivery of the larvae into damaged reef systems and increase the efficiency…
Environmental and Earth
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Environmental and Earth
The Monarch Butterflies Have Lost A Champion
by Steffen Kohl December 22, 2018When Oberhauser first visited the roosting sites, the migrating monarch butterfly population was at its peak. Oberhauser’s decades of studying monarchs have taken her far and wide. Our birth rate has fallen to its lowest rate ever. Monarchs traditionally reach…
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Extinct birds were nocturnal and blind. Early plants were small, unicellular or filamentous, with simple branching. “We wanted to know whether there were similar drivers for organisms during the Ediacaran period” , said Dr Emily Mitchell of Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences, the paper’s…
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Outdoor Air Pollution Health Effects | Water Based Is Better
by Steffen Kohl December 22, 2018You may be thinking “but my home’s air is clean”. There are actually air pollutants inside your home. On Wednesday, the new study published in Environmental Science and Technology, reported the hybrid plant was successful in dramatically reducing chloroform and…
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Mystrium Camillae Has Mandibles That Can Snap at 200 MPH
by Steffen Kohl December 16, 2018Located mostly in the tropics of Africa, Australia and Asia, the tiny creatures spend most of their lives burrowed into tree trunks or underground, to the endless frustration of scientists who would like to study them. But one species, Mystrium…