A landmark multinational agreement protecting Antarctica’s Ross Sea offers valuable lessons for similar global conservation pacts…
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Sustainable dairy project finds ways to lower emissions, boost profits
A six-year-long, nationwide research project has concluded with solutions to help the dairy industry reduce greenhouse…
Content lacking in children's book-sharing experiences in low-income, ethnic-minority households
The lack of content in books that children can access—and not merely the total number of…
New AI app predicts climate change stress for farmers in Africa
A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool available for free in a smartphone app can predict near-term…
How gliding animals fine-tuned the rules of evolution
A study of gliding animals has challenged the idea that evolutionary innovations—adaptations that bring new abilities…
The Prisoner's Dilemma: Exploring a strategy that leads to mutual cooperation without non-cooperative actions
A research team led by Hitoshi Yamamoto from Rissho University has analyzed which strategies would be…
DNA is held together by hydrophobic forces
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have disproved the prevailing theory of how DNA binds…
Study confirms Monterey Bay Aquarium surrogate-reared sea otters helped restore threatened population
The population of threatened southern sea otters in Elkhorn Slough, an estuary in Central California, has…
Dutch reinforce major dike as seas rise, climate changes
Rising up in a thin line through the waters separating the provinces of North Holland and…
W. Antarctica's crumbling ice sheet to redraw global coastline
The fate of the world’s coastal regions and the hundreds of millions of people who inhabit…