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November 07, 2014

A fraction of the global military spending could save the planet's biodiversity
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A fundamental step-change involving an increase in funding and political commitment is urgently needed to ensure that protected areas deliver their full conservation, social and economic potential, according to an article published in Nature by experts from Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Queensland, and the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). The paper, The performance and potential of protected areas, comes ahead of the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 - a once-in-a-d ... read more

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Little evidence conservation organizations respond to economic signals A University of Tennessee, Knoxville, study finds that nonprofit organizations aiming to protect biodiversity show little evidence of responding to economic signals, which could limit the effectiven ... more		Madagascar: Fossil skull analysis offers clue to mammals' evolution The surprise discovery of the fossilized skull of a 66- to 70-million-year-old, groundhog-like creature on Madagascar has led to new analyses of the lifestyle of the largest known mammal of its time ... more		Details on the November ENSO forecast: slip-slidin' away? by Emily Becker The CPC/IRI ENSO forecast has dropped the likelihood of El Nino again, to 58%, despite the presence of "borderline" El Nino conditions (i.e. warmer equatorial Pacific sea surface te ... more
				When less is more: Death in moderation boosts population density in nature In nature, the right amount of death at the right time might actually help boost a species' population density, according to new research that could help in understanding animal populations, pest co ... more		Tricky take-off kept pterodactyls grounded A new study, which teamed cutting-edge engineering techniques with paleontology, has found that take-off capacity may have determined body size limits in extinct flying reptiles. The research simula ... more

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Early New Zealand population initiated rapid forest transition Human-set fires by a small Polynesian population in New Zealand ~750 years ago may have caused fire-vulnerable forests to shift to shrub land over decades, rather than over centuries, as previously ... more		NMSU professor experiments growing plants in highly saline water As drought continues to plague New Mexico, alternatives such as using wastewater have been tested and used for agriculture and urban irrigation. In the quest to conserve potable water and still main ... more		AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power UAH lands first DARPA award for biological sciences department		Understanding of global freshwater fish and fishing too shallow Inland fish have to make a bigger splash. What sounds counter-intuitive to an activity commonly perceived as quiet is the broad recommendation of scientists at Michigan State University (MSU) recomm ... more
				NEIKER fells pine trees to study their wind resistance Technicians of the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development NEIKER-Tecnalia have in recent days been felling trees to simulate the effect of the wind in mountains in the Bizkaia lo ... more		Ancient genomes show the European meta-population DNA recovered from a 36,000 year old fossil skeleton found in Russia shows early divergence of Eurasians once they had left Africa, and the deep shared ancestry of Europeans. The new study, ca ... more

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First amphibious ichthyosaur discovered, filling evolutionary gap The first fossil of an amphibious ichthyosaur has been discovered in China by a team led by researchers at the University of California, Davis. The discovery is the first to link the dolphin-like ic ... more		Syracuse Geologist Reveals Correlation Between Earthquakes, Landslides A geologist in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences has demonstrated that earthquakes--not climate change, as previously thought--affect the rate of landslides in Peru. The findi ... more		Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge		Rare 2.5-billion-year-old rocks reveal hot spot of sulfur-breathing bacteria Wriggle your toes in a marsh's mucky bottom sediment and you'll probably inhale a rotten egg smell, the distinctive odor of hydrogen sulfide gas. That's the biochemical signature of sulfur-using bac ... more
Nature adores a hybrid Overfishing, climate change and pollution have reduced fish populations in Canadian lakes and rivers. While hatchery-raised fish could return numbers to normal, they aren't as well adapted to their ... more		Complete 9,000-year-old frozen bison mummy found in Siberia Many large charismatic mammals went extinct at the end of the Ice Age (approx 11,000 years ago), including the Steppe bison, Bison priscus. A recent find in Eastern Siberia has uncovered one of thes ... more		Brazil Indians in race to save ancestral lands Government foot-dragging has spurred a race by Brazil's Munduruku Indians to mark off their ancestral lands in the Amazon before they are wiped out by a planned hydroelectric complex. ... more		Invasive species threaten global biodiversity Until a few decades ago, there were no beavers in Patagonia. That changed when 20 pairs of the tree-chewing creature were introduced with the hopes of creating a fur industry. ... more

	Climate economics expert urges "critical" investment shift The next 20 years must see a "critical" investment shift from high- to low-carbon energy sources to limit damaging global warming, Nicholas Stern, an authority on the economics of climate change, said Thursday. ... more		US lawmaker gets reservist call-up -- for volcano duty She might be a US congresswoman, but Tulsi Gabbard is also a reservist in the National Guard, which placed her on active duty to help with a volcanic eruption in her native Hawaii. ... more

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