#What kind of bee is that bee? Exotic Bee ID website expanded

“#What kind of bee is that bee? Exotic Bee ID website expanded” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Exotic Bee ID, a website created through a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Utah State University (USU) to help identify non-native bees in…

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#Mountain meadow restoration can bring birds back

“#Mountain meadow restoration can bring birds back” House finchnigel. Credit: Wikimedia Commons In a new study led by scientists at Point Blue Conservation Science and in collaboration with The Institute for Bird Populations, authors evaluated the successes of mountain meadow restorations by analyzing eight years of bird data collected by field biologists. The authors concluded…

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#How deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans

“#How deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans” by Amy Y. Vittor, Gabriel Zorello Laporta and Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, The Conversation </p><div> <div> <div data-src=”https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2019/1-deforestation.jpg” data-sub-html=”Credit: CC0 Public Domain” data-thumb=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2019/1-deforestation.jpg”> <figure><img alt=”deforestation” height=”480″ src=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2019/1-deforestation.jpg” title=”Credit: CC0 Public Domain” width=”800″></img><figcaption> Credit: CC0 Public Domain </figcaption></figure></div> The coronavirus pandemic, suspected of originating in bats…

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#Plants: the known unknowns which are undermining conservation

“#Plants: the known unknowns which are undermining conservation” Taxonomy may be a 300-year old science, but it embraces new technology – and it works. Credit: Oxford Science Blog We got the ‘green’ in green issues from the chlorophyll in plants. But the botanical world—which drives the planet’s ecosystems—is the Cinderella science, struggling for resources and…

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#New process could safeguard water quality, environment and health

“#New process could safeguard water quality, environment and health” Samples being placed into a centrifuge to separate sample components. Credit: Swansea University A research team at Swansea University have developed a new method for fast removal and detection of wastewater pollutants that come from everyday pharmaceuticals like paracetamol, ibuprofen and aspirin, which could help minimise…

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#Deadly Aussie snakes, magpies seized from suspected traffickers

“#Deadly Aussie snakes, magpies seized from suspected traffickers” Magpies in Australia are best known for swooping on cyclists during spring A cache of native Australian animals—including some of the country’s deadliest snakes and a bird known for its swooping attacks—was seized Wednesday in raids on suspected international wildlife traffickers, police said. New South Wales police said…

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#Airborne mapping sheds light on climate sensitivity of California redwoods

“#Airborne mapping sheds light on climate sensitivity of California redwoods” A coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forest landscape at Mt. Tam in Marin County, California with redwood trees mapped from ASU Global Airborne Observatory imaging spectroscopy shown in light blue. Credit: Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science. Throughout California, the effects…

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