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Biologists link climate change to scary garden plants
2015-07-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WWLP: Your next exchange with Mother Nature could end up getting under your skin, in the worst way. A hike, a picnic in the park, or tidying up your garden could be life-changing. A growing number of biologists, and meteorologists are pointing to climate change, and suspect it might responsible for causing some bad plants to get even worse. Poison ivy, though it has been with us for hundreds of years, seems to be getting supercharged by climate change. It is boosting the supply of carbon dioxide, and...
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'Businesses need biologists'
2015-06-30 01:09:35| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Why firms may need to start hiring scientists
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Older coral species more hardy, biologists say
2014-08-18 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: New research indicates older species of coral have more of what it takes to survive a warming and increasingly polluted climate, according to biologists from the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez. The researchers examined 140 samples of 14 species of Caribbean corals for a study published by the open-access journal PLOS ONE on Aug. 18. Jorge H. Pinzón C., a postdoctoral researcher in the UT Arlington Department of Biology, is lead author on the study....
Biologists discover electric bacteria that eat pure electrons rather than sugar, redefining the tenacity of life
2014-07-18 14:51:18| Extremetech
Some intrepid biologists at the University of Southern California (USC) have discovered bacteria that survives on nothing but electricity -- rather than food, they eat and excrete pure electrons. These bacteria yet again prove the almost miraculous tenacity of life -- but, from a technology standpoint, they might also prove to be useful in enabling the creation of self-powered nanoscale devices that clean up pollution. Some of these bacteria also have the curious ability to form into "biocables" that are centimeters long, and conduct electricity as well as copper wires -- a capability that might one day be tapped to build long, self-assembling subsurface networks for human use.
Discovery helps biologists understand how plants respond to rising levels of carbon dioxide
2014-07-11 17:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Biologists from San Diego could help scientists understand how the burning of fossil fuels affects plants and help engineer ways to improve crops. Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have published a paper in the journal Nature regarding the discovery of a new genetic pathway in plants. This will help biologists know more about how climate change and the rising levels of CO2 are affecting plants and crops. It could help scientists to engineer plants in such a way that they could...
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