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Urgent Need to Enable More Farmers and Contractors to Revive England’s Network of Hedgerows

A new comprehensive survey has highlighted an urgent need to enable more farmers and contractors to revive England’s hedgerows to meet national restoration targets.

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Researchers Develop Crystals to Harvest Water from Air, Inspired by Desert Life

A team of researchers from Jilin University, NYU Abu Dhabi’s Smart Materials Lab, and the Center for Smart Engineering Materials, led by Professor of Chemistry Pance Naumov, has developed a new crystalline material that can harvest water from fog without any energy input.

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Will Agricultural Weeds Finally Claim the Upper Hand in a Changing Climate?

A few years back, a group of weed scientists showed that soil-applied herbicides are less effective against agricultural weeds in the context of our changing climate.

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MSU Researchers Find Trees Acclimate to Changing Temperatures

Climate change is a persistent and growing challenge to plant life on our planet. Changes to the environments that plants are accustomed to affects how they grow.

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Mount Fuji Bare Again After Fleeting Snow

As the calendar turned to November 2024, Japan’s iconic volcano and highest peak, Mount Fuji, still awaited the first snowfall of the season. 

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Insecticide Contamination in Minnesota’s Ground and Surface Water

New research from the University of Minnesota examined levels of neonicotinoid insecticides  — commonly called neonics — in surface and groundwater across Minnesota.

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Bee Alert: Pesticides Pose a Real Threat to Over 70% of Wild Bees

Reforms needed to ensure the protection of all pollinator species, our food systems and biodiversity as a whole.

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To Cope with Extreme Heat, Paris Will Swap Parking Spaces for Trees

Paris aims to replace 60,000 parking spaces across the city with trees by the end of this decade, according to its newly released climate plan.

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Diverse and Diverging Demands on Forests in Germany

Research team analyse biodiversity, ecosystems and economics of enriching beech forests with conifers.

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Study Finds Humidity Diminishes Daytime Cooling Gains in Urban Green Spaces

Urban green spaces provide shade for city dwellers facing rising temperatures brought on by climate change, but how much relief from the heat island effect do they provide when humidity is factored in?

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