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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Despite centuries of rampant overfishing and pollution, marine life in the world’s oceans could be fully restored in as little as 30 years with aggressive conservation policies, according to a new scientific review published in the journal Nature.
A previous study has shown that a type of squill growing in Madeira produces a chemical compound that may be useful as a medicinal drug.
Melatonin controls the body clock – high melatonin levels make us feel tired in the evening.
A research team led by Washington State University has found that while drylands around the world will expand at an accelerated rate because of future climate change, their average productivity will likely be reduced.
A new study by researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) found that human-induced environmental stressors have a large effect on the genetic composition of coral reef populations in Hawai‘i.
A Nordic study sheds new light on the role of northern peatlands in regulating the regional climate.
