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Can climate corridors help species adapt to warming world?
2016-08-04 09:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: If you flip over a log in a forest in the southeastern U.S., you are likely to find a squirming salamander. A healthy forest floor, full of fallen branches and rotting leaves, provides these amphibians with the moisture, protection and food they need to survive and thrive. If rain falters or if temperatures rise too high for these animals to survive, they would need to move to another cooler, wetter part of the forest. However, many of the forests in the southeastern U.S. exist only as isolated...
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Coffee nut? Not a New Species, But a New M&Ms Favorite
2016-08-02 18:45:00| Food Processing
Fans participating in Mars' M&M flavor competition chose Coffee Nut as the next new flavor for the candy in honor of its 75th anniversary.
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Stephen Hawking has a stark warning for what Brexit could mean for the human species
2016-07-29 22:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Stephen Hawking has penned a thoughtful appeal for post-Brexit Britain to reconsider the role that wealth plays in society, warning that isolationism and envy could even lead to the end of the human species. In a Guardian essay, the world-renowned physicist made the case for a more comprehensive and generous definition of wealth "to include knowledge, natural resources and human capacity." Noticing that we're living in "perilous times," Hawking lists all the multiple challenges that the planet...
Unusual new zoantharian species is the first described solitary species in over 100 years
2016-07-25 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] A very unusual new species of zoantharian surprised Drs Takuma Fujii and James Davis Reimer, affiliated with Kagoshima University and University of the Ryukyus. The scientists stumbled upon a solitary individual polyp while conducting SCUBA surveys around the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. They noticed that the creatures…
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New dinosaur species may give clues to evolutionary origin of megaraptorid clade
2016-07-20 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE: This is a skull and body reconstruction of the new dinosaur species, Murusraptor barrosaensis. Credit: Coria et al (2016) A new species of megaraptorid dinosaur discovered in Patagonia may help discern the ev…
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