The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced that baby Eastern copperheads will start becoming more active as the weather becomes cooler and milder.
Plants & Animals
Sep 15, 2025
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Chemist Emily Mevers and her team recently discovered a new set of complex structures in millipede secretions that can modulate specific neuroreceptors in ant brains.
Biochemistry
Jul 25, 2025
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A pilot study has revealed that everyday pedestrian movement—such as walking, kicking, or brushing past litter—can unintentionally propel waste into rivers, adding a previously overlooked human factor to the global plastic ...
Environment
Jul 21, 2025
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Reviving floodplain wetlands slashes carbon emissions by 39% and restores critical ecosystem functions in one year—without the methane spike typically seen in restored peatlands, a new study has found.
Environment
Jul 16, 2025
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A study led by the UAB and the CREAF shows that the loss of nitrogen from Arctic soil not only deprives plants of a vital nutrient but also contributes, proportionally and irreversibly, to increased CO2 emissions. The study ...
Environment
Jul 2, 2025
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Among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines are thin plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind. Once there, they can ...
Environment
Jun 19, 2025
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A new paper published in Marine Pollution Bulletin is calling for the scientific community to establish one global model of how to establish a citizen science project to clear litter from beaches, which would help with the ...
Environment
May 19, 2025
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Marine habitats are facing unprecedented threats, with 66% of coastal areas already altered and degraded. Bottom-contact fisheries, which use indiscriminate trawling, physically damage almost 5 million square kilometers of ...
Ecology
May 1, 2025
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Rock outcrops, long regarded as passive geological features, may play an active and crucial role in shaping soil function in mountain ecosystems, according to a new study published on March 31 in Functional Ecology.
Ecology
Apr 10, 2025
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Pollution by marine litter of anthropogenic origin—that comes from human activity—is currently one of the biggest environmental concerns given its increasing magnitude, especially due to the considerable amount of plastics ...
Environment
Mar 12, 2025
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