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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Jonathon McPhetres, a newly minted PhD in psychology from the University of Rochester, admits he’s “personally amazed” what we can do with genes, specifically genetically modified food—such as saving papayas from extinction.
The Western honeybee is the most important managed pollinator globally and has recently experienced unsustainably high colony losses in many regions of the world.
After conducting a comprehensive, seven-year survey of Patagonia, glaciologists from the University of California, Irvine and partner institutions in Argentina and Chile have concluded that the ice sheets in this vast region of South America are considerably more massive than expected.
Salmon species, known for undertaking arduous upstream migrations, appear to owe a good deal of their athletic ability to the presence of a single enzyme.
Some of the world's most powerful earthquakes involve multiple faults, and scientists are using supercomputers to better predict their behavior.
Michigan State University physicians have found that vitamin D, if taken for at least three years, could help cancer patients live longer.
