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Mosquitoes carrying malaria are evolving more quickly than insecticides can kill them – researchers pinpoint how
The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to spread more quickly. Diseases transmitted by insects present another evolutionary front: Insects themselves can evolve resistance to...
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Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring
Each spring, river herring populations migrate from Massachusetts coastal waters to begin their annual journey up rivers and...
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Soaring gas prices and disrupted supply chains will ripple out to increase costs in every store and sector of the economy
The disruptions from the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran spread quickly to commercial aircraft, shipping lanes and the world’s energy supply. Those repercussions have already hit fuel costs, including for motorists, truckers and fishermen,...
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Large heath butterflies are ‘canary in coal mine for climate change’
Could counting endangered large heath butterflies be used as an indicator of peatland health?
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A complicated future for a methane-cleansing molecule
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in driving up global...
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Investigating Antarctic ice shelf melting with global navigation satellite systems
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), which include GPS, are traditionally used for positioning, timing, and mapping information....
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3 Questions: Communicating about climate, in audio and beyond
Since her first journalism fellowship covering energy and the environment at the NPR station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,...
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The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness
A few years ago, I took a zombie test. I had flown to Madison, Wisconsin, to visit neuroscientist Giulio...
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Why Colorado River negotiations stalled, and how they could resume with the possibility of agreement
The seven U.S. states that make up the Colorado River basin are struggling to agree on how best to manage the river’s water as its supply dwindles due to climate change and a period of...
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U.S. appears to drop anti-tank mines in Iranian village near Shiraz, analysts say
The U.S. may have dropped anti-tank mines over a village in southern Iran, the open-source...