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Integrating social and ecological science for effective coral reef conservation
While many conservation plans focus on only environmental indicators for success, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)’s…
Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History
A star-forming region called the Perseus Molecular Cloud has long been a favorite target…
Media Invited to Preview of New NASA Field Campaigns
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China to Launch CAMSAT CAS-6 Satellite on December 20
The CAMSAT CAS-6 amateur radio payload is set for launch on Friday, December 20, at 0321…
Conservation's hidden costs take bite out of benefits
Scientists show that even popular conservation programs can harbor hidden costs, often for vulnerable populations. …
Mimicking enzymes, chemists produce large, useful carbon rings
Drawing inspiration from nature, chemists have discovered an efficient way to wrangle long, snaking molecules to…
385-million-year-old forest discovered
While sifting through fossil soils in the Catskill region near Cairo, New York, researchers uncovered the…
Biodiversity has substantially changed in one of the largest Mediterranean wetlands
The Camargue area in France has considerably fewer grasshopper, cricket, locust, dragonfly, and amphibian species than…
Easy prey: The largest bears in the world use small streams to fatten up on salmon
A new study reveals a different picture of how and when brown bears in southwestern Alaska…