Scientists have created the first global distribution map for bees, analyzing nearly 6 million public records of where individual species have appeared around the world.
Scientists Create the First Global Map of Bee Distribution
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New Clues Shed Light on Importance of Earth’s Ice Sheets
Researchers examining subglacial waters both from Antarctica and Greenland found that these waters have higher concentrations of important, life-sustaining elements than previously thought, answering a big unknown for scientists seeking to understand the Earth’s geochemical processes.
“The data from an Antarctic lake is particularly exciting,” said Florida State University postdoctoral fellow Jon Hawkings. “Most people tend to think of Antarctica as just ice, but we’ve known about these lakes underneath the glaciers in Antarctica for 40 years and over 400 of them have currently been identified. Some scientists refer to the subglacial environment in Antarctic as the world’s largest wetland. The challenge for scientists is it’s just extremely difficult to sample them.”
Hawkings, along with colleagues at Florida State and Montana State University, has published a new study this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences exploring these subglacial waters.
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Pictured is a glacial meltwater river that has drained from the Greenland Ice Sheet. These rivers contain high amounts of suspended glacial flour as the ice sheet acts like a natural bulldozer and gives the rivers a grey milky color. (Photo Credit: Jon Hawkings)
Ban Short-Haul Flights, Eat Less Meat: Europeans Back Climate Over Convenience in Oxford Survey
Eupinions carried out the survey in September for the Europe's Stories project at St Antony's College, covering all 27 EU member states and the UK.
Researchers Decipher Structure of Promising Battery Materials
A class of materials called metal organic frameworks, or MOFs, has attracted considerable interest over the last several years for a variety of potential energy-related applications — especially since researchers discovered that these typically insulating materials could also be made electrically conductive.
Growing Interest in Moon Resources Could Cause Tension, Scientists Find
An international team of scientists led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has identified a problem with the growing interest in extractable resources on the moon: there aren’t enough of them to go around.
Stirling Research Evaluates Effectiveness of Conservation Efforts
New research from the University of Stirling into the effectiveness of international conservation projects could help to save endangered species from extinction.
