'The blue antelope was an African antelope with a bluish-gray pelt, related to the sable & the roan antelope. The last blue antelope was shot around 1800. The research team, has succeeded in obtaining a 40-fold high-coverage genome from a specimen'.

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'New research illustrates a critical barrier to natural regeneration of tropical forests. Data gathered in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil - show that when wild tropical birds move freely across forest landscapes, they can increase C storage by up to 38 %'.

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'The climate regulates plant growth & yet the climate is also influenced by plants. A study by (MLU) has found that ecosystems can have a strong impact on Europe's climate depending on their plant mix'.
#plant #climate #ecosystem
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'A team of researchers have described several new species of aquatic insects revered as bioindicators of freshwater ecosystems. However, the newfound species are often already considered endangered, as set by the (IUCN)'.
#species #endangered #ecosystem
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'A new study by the Complexity Science Hub demonstrates how climate policies can be implemented with minimal economic damage'
#climate #policy #economy #emissions
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'The study marks a significant advancement in our understanding of forest ecosystems, shedding light on the intricacies of tree height variability and its implications for ecological studies and climate change mitigation efforts'.
#forest #climatechange
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'As hordes of large animals thunder across African savanna. In some areas, fences, have fractured the historic migratory routes of wildebeest & prevented them from roaming far in search of grass & water so that genetic health of wildebeest has suffered'.

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'For the first time satellite earth observation data has been used to study all the key flamingo feeding lakes in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania over two decades and it identified how rising water levels are reducing the birds’ main food source'.
#lakes
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'Marine researchers have mapped the density of one of the most endangered large whale species worldwide, the North Atlantic right whale, using newly analyzed data to help avoid whales’ harmful, even fatal, exposure to commercial fishing & vessel strikes'.

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'A team of scientists observed 160 species on seamounts off the coast of Chile that had not yet been known to live in the region and suspect that at least 50 of these species are new to science'.
#newspecies
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'Meandering ocean currents play an important role in the melting of Antarctic ice shelves, threatening a significant rise in sea levels'.
#ocean #currents #antarctic #iceshelves #melt #sealevel
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'Cloud ‘engineering’ could be more effective for climate cooling than previously thought, because of the increased cloud cover produced, new research shows'. 
#globalwarming #clouds #engineering #cooling
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'Through analysis of DNA traces in the stomachs of predatory sea slugs, a team of researchers has demonstrated that the animals also live in the seabed sediment, a habitat they were previously thought not to colonize'.

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'Concurrent occurrences of heatwaves and extreme short-term sea level rises at the same coastal locations significantly increased between 1998 and 2017 when compared to the preceding twenty years, reports a study'
#climatechange #heatwaves #coastal
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'Start-up aims to make sustainable coral farming commercially viable and boost the protection of wild corals'
#coralreef #sustainable
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'Antarctica harbors numerous large meteorite concentrations at its surface, & as such, the icy continent contains an unparalleled wealth of information on our Solar System, enabling us to understand the emergence of life on Earth & how the Moon was formed'
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Rare Javan rhino #calf spotted in Indonesia phys.org/news/2024-04-r…

The jaguarundi is a wild cat native to the Americas that shows several features seen in mustelids such as otters and weasels. This is a rare footage, because it's shy and reclusive.

'Researchers used eDNA to analyze the reef’s microbial community.
(Understanding the composition of a healthy reef microbial community is important. Without the balance of micro and macroorganismal health, you cannot have a healthy functioning ecosystem)”

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'The Common Loon, an icon of the northern wilderness, is under threat from climate change due to reduced water clarity, according to a new study.  The study followed up an earlier paper that showed substantial reproductive decline in northern Wisconsin'. 

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