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Cost of Planting, Protecting Trees to Fight Climate Change Could Jump

Dec. 1, 2020 — Planting trees and preventing deforestation are considered key climate change mitigation strategies, but a new analysis finds the cost of preserving and planting trees to hit certain global emissions ...

Caribbean Coral Reefs Under Siege from Aggressive Algae

Nov. 30, 2020 — Human activity endangers coral health around the world. A new algal threat is taking advantage of coral's already precarious situation in the Caribbean and making it even harder for reef ecosystems ...

Jaguars Robust to Climate Extremes but Lack of Food Threatens Species

Nov. 30, 2020 — Researchers lead a world-first investigation into the chances of wild jaguars surviving climate extremes with six scenarios modelling the behavior, mating, births of cubs, competition, illegal ...

In Fire-Prone West, Plants Need Their Pollinators -- And Vice Versa

Nov. 25, 2020 — A new study grounded in the northern Rockies explores the role of wildfire in the finely tuned dance between plants and their pollinators. Previous studies have looked at how fire affects plants, or ...

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Mine Ponds Amplify Mercury Risks in Peru's Amazon

Nov. 27, 2020 — The proliferation of pits and ponds created in recent years by miners digging for gold in Peru's Amazon has altered the landscape and amplified the risk of mercury poisoning, a new study shows. In ...

Plastic Contaminants Harm Sea Urchins

Nov. 30, 2020 — Plastics in the ocean can release chemicals that cause deformities in sea urchin larvae, new research ...

Some Amazon Rainforest Regions More Resistant to Climate Change Than Previously Thought

Nov. 20, 2020 — A new observational study demonstrates that increasing air dryness does not reduce photosynthesis in certain very wet regions of the Amazon ...

Changes in Fire Activity Are Threatening More Than 4,400 Species Globally

Nov. 23, 2020 — More than 4,400 species across the globe are at risk from extinction because of changes in fire activity says a new ...

Giant Aquatic Bacterium Is a Master of Adaptation

Nov. 19, 2020 — The largest freshwater bacterium, Achromatium oxaliferum, is highly flexible in its requirements, as researchers have now discovered: It lives in places that differ extremely in environmental ...

In the Amazon's 'Sand Forests,' Birds Play by Different Evolutionary Rules

Nov. 17, 2020 — The Amazon isn't just rainforest -- patches of habitat grow on white sands. Scientists are starting to turn their attention to these 'sand forests' and the animals that live there. In a new study, ...

Researchers Quantify Carbon Changes in Sierra Nevada Meadow Soils

Nov. 16, 2020 — Meadows in the Sierra Nevada mountains are critical components of watersheds. In addition to supplying water to over 25 million people in California and Nevada, meadows contain large quantities of ...

What Does the Fox Say to a Puma?

Nov. 13, 2020 — Researchers have found that in the Chilean Andes, two predator species -- the puma and the culpeo fox -- can successfully share a landscape and hunt for food over the same nighttime hours because ...

Applying Environmental Genomics to Coral Conservation

Nov. 12, 2020 — Coral reefs are extremely sensitive to temperature, making them particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. But some corals seem able to adapt. Researchers studied a reef in New ...

Late-Season Arctic Research Cruise Reveals Warm Ocean Temperatures, Active Ecosystem

Nov. 11, 2020 — Arctic researchers have been visiting the Bering and Chukchi seas off Alaska for nearly 30 years, collecting information about the biological ...