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Most animal species, if taken from the wild into the heart of cities, lose their abilities to stay “cool,” and never adapt to a life of roaming free among cars, buses and office buildings. However, this doesn't seem to be the case with a turtle species in Australia, which apparently thrives in an urb... |
22 October 2009
03:02 GMT |
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Naturalists and biologists warn those suffering from arachnophobia that this autumn may be a thing of nightmares. On account of excellent breeding conditions and suitable climate, much more spiders and daddy longlegs (crane flies) will be spawned. Last autumn was very rainy, so crane-fly larvae had sufficient decayin... |
25 September 2009
17:31 GMT |
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Over the past century or so, the spread of invasive species in new habitats has increased in proportions and severity. With the advent of modern transportation, it has become a lot easier for pests or new species to enter habitats they were not designed to function into. If they manage to adapt to the new conditions,... |
18 September 2009
02:59 GMT |
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While roadrunners are a fairly common appearance in the southwestern parts of North America, naturalists know surprisingly little about them, mostly because the creatures are very difficult to capture. In a new scientific paper, accompanying a four-year study of wild roadrunners, scientists finally shed some light on... |
12 August 2009
02:56 GMT |
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Following a ten-year study conducted in the most remote regions of the Himalaya Mountains, scientists finally announced the results this week. According to the official numbers, at least 350 new species were discovered living on the mountain, including plants, insects, fish, mammals, birds and invertebrates. The regi... |
12 August 2009
01:32 GMT |
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Modeling nature and the interactions that take place within ecosystems is one of the most complex and demanding tasks that scientists working in this field of research have. Performing complex studies in nature to look at ecosystems is not always possible, because the methods would be either unethical (removing an an... |
11 August 2009
14:41 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study released by experts at the Bournemouth University, in the United Kingdom, the historic British woodlands are losing biodiversity at a very high rate. Environmental changes, such as an increase in soil fertility and a reduction in light, related to increased canopies, have radically... |
22 July 2009
04:05 GMT |
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I've been trying to find an appropriate title for this article for quite some time now, but I couldn't come up with one that would draw as many readers to it as possible. This piece is about the challenges that are brought forth by global warming, the people fighting to sooth or exacerbate them, the animals... |
11 July 2009
10:11 GMT |
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Certain watery environments are a bit tricky to analyze, especially when talking about the deep sea, or the frozen lakes buried under hundreds of feet of ice. Additionally, when nanoparticles come into play, it's very difficult to distinguish between the effects that other factors have on the water, and the effe... |
7 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Over the millennia, the otherwise normal turtles living in the seclusion of the Galapagos Islands evolved into the largest species of tortoise in the world, far exceeding any other competitor. Isolated on just seven islands in the entire chain, the reptiles led a somewhat peaceful existence until the mosquitoes in th... |
2 June 2009
06:19 GMT |
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Yesterday, experts from the International Institute for Species Exploration at the Arizona State University (ASU) and an international committee of taxonomists announced the top 10 new species discovered in 2008, which have never before been studied. Some of them are weird because of their size, while others live in ... |
23 May 2009
06:29 GMT |
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The Brazilian government seems determined to build a number of dams on some of the largest tributaries of the Amazon river, the mightiest flow of water in the world. The first to enter the eyesight is, naturally, the Xingu River, the largest tributary of the Amazon and home to more than 600 species of fish, of which ... |
6 April 2009
09:46 GMT |
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Naturalists have known for a long time that different types of environments play a crucial part in the development of new species, as well as in the extinction of new ones. However, thus far, no one has been able to prove the contrary. Following a rigorous series of scientific experiments, experts from the University... |
2 April 2009
10:50 GMT |
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The growing effects of climate change and global warming have prompted a lot of companies and other entrepreneurs to start investing in renewable energy, such as solar power and wind farms. However, it would seem that a new problem is now emerging, namely the fact that large amounts of solar panels, scheduled to be c... |
30 March 2009
09:00 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that bacteria are everywhere around, near and even inside us. In fact, the human body is host to countless species of bacteria, and is entirely dependent on them for its very survival. Now, researchers begin to uncover a new role that bacteria seem to possess, that of being able to summon t... |
12 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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