Bats face many threats — from habitat loss and climate change to emerging diseases, such as white-nose syndrome.
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Conferring Leaf Rust Resistance in Cereal Crops
Genes have been identified that confer resistance to multiple leaf rust species in barley.
Research Reveals Past Rapid Antarctic Ice Loss Due to Ocean Warming
New research from the University of Otago has found the sensitive West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed during a warming period just over a million years ago when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were lower than today.
Siberian Researchers Contribute to Global Monitoring of the Earth's Green Lungs
Researchers of Siberian Federal University took part in a global project to collect, systematize and universalize data on the composition of forests in all climatic zones and on all continents of the planet.
New Biomass Map to Take Stock of the World’s Carbon
The first of a series of global maps aimed at quantifying change in carbon stored as biomass across the world’s forests and shrublands has been released today by ESA’s Climate Change Initiative at COP25 – the United Nation Climate Change Conference currently taking place in Madrid.
A Bloom in the Strait of Hormuz
A phytoplankton bloom appeared in one of the world’s busiest oil waterways.
