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5,496 results for: Forests

  1. Ecosystems

    Risky High Life: Mountain creatures prove extra-vulnerable

    Some of the species hardest hit by climate change will be those living in particular mountain highlands.

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  2. Materials Science

    Metal Makeover

    Metallic glasses with extraordinary strength and corrosion resistance have been known for decades, but only recently have researchers been able to make such alloys on a large scale from inexpensive iron.

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  3. Earth

    Feel the Heat: Rain forests may slow their growth in warmer world

    During a long-term research project in a Central American rain forest, mature trees grew more slowly in warm years than they did in cooler ones.

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  4. Astronomy

    Stellar Tantrums: Tracking the flaring cycles of other stars

    Astronomers are closely tracking the ebb and flow of magnetic activity and powerful flares on stars other than the sun.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    A Virus Crosses Over to Wild-Animal Hunters

    A potentially dangerous virus is moving from nonhuman primates to Africans who hunt and eat wild animals, a new study suggests.

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  6. Animals

    Thoroughly Modern Migrants

    Butterflies and moths are causing scientists to devise a broader definition of migration and this has raised some old questions in new ways.

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  7. They’re Sequencing a What?

    Announcements of new targets for genome sequencing are bringing celebrity to lesser-known twigs on the tree of life.

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  8. Earth

    Marsh Farming for Profit and the Common Good

    A move is now afoot to get farmers to embrace wetlands as part of their business.

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    This article raised so many questions. Do children who play in the dirt get their increased immune resistance from phages in the dirt? Is there a phage connection in the AIDS story? Does the risk of dying of heart attacks have a phage connection? If so, is group A Streptococcus involved? Do we need a […]

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  10. Earth

    Clearing the Air: Ozone-killing bromine is on the decline

    Chemical analyses of Earth's lower atmosphere show that the overall concentration of bromine, a component of some potent ozone-destroying chemicals, has dropped by 5 percent since peaking in 1998.

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  11. Earth

    Satellites show Earth is greener

    Daily observations from space for nearly 2 decades indicate that our planet is getting greener.

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  12. Earth

    Mapping carbon dioxide from space

    An orbiting observatory in space will sense atmospheric carbon dioxide levels around the globe, creating a detailed map of the greenhouse gas' sources and sinks.

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