Does a tree know it’s being eaten?
Can a tree protect itself if being eaten? From roots to canopy, many trees can indeed tell...
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Weighing a tonne and packed with hundreds of rooms – each home to a family — it can house a staggering 500 households. Is this the ultimate apartment block?
It’s the heaviest, largest, most densely populated bird nest… that’s been built and extended...
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Borrowing a trick from nature may solve plastic pollution
On a hike in Bear Mountain State Park, chemist Yuwei Gu stopped short at an...
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India’s ancient trees: Are we protecting nature’s living timekeepers?
As cities expand, India’s old-growth trees slow time and record centuries of survival — yet are...
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Why plastic bans aren’t working and what needs to change
Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste —...
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650-foot mega-tsunami is recorded by satellites, sends seismic waves worldwide for nine days
Greenland’s eastern edge rarely causes a stir. Then, with no warning, seismic instruments...
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Satellite Sentinel-5A Captures Startling New Images of Earth’s Ozone Hole
Sentinel-5A satellite shows the real story behind earth’s ozone hole and pollution, see the first...
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Forest soils release less nitrogen as moisture disappears
For years, scientists assumed one thing about warming forests: heat up the soil, and...
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Satellite captures the first detailed look at a giant tsunami
When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake ripped through the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone on July...
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Ground report: 250-year-old transplanted banyan tree shows no regrowth; farmer plans legal action
Tree originally stood on about 4.5 acres of land owned by farmer Balbir Singh, which was acquired...
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Bats once had hands – but evolution turned them into wings
New research comparing bat and mouse embryos shows that the bat wing didn’t come from a...
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Forest Soil Carbon Builds via Fine Roots Decades
In the global quest to understand and mitigate climate change,...
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