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Kelp: The planet's other forest crisis

• Feb 24, 2026

The decline of California's kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013–17 has seen only minor recovery despite heroic efforts at restoration carr...

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Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments

• Feb 24, 2026

The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California's top air pollution authority as its board weighed a...

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Fast-paced lives demand faster vision: Ecology shapes how 'quickly' animals see time

• Feb 24, 2026

Animals don't just see the world differently from one another, they experience time itself at dramatically different speeds. That is according to a ne...

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Global warming and heat stress risk close in on the Tour de France

• Feb 24, 2026

The progressive rise in temperatures poses a growing threat to the staging of summer sporting events in Europe and, more specifically, to the Tour de...

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How bacteria can reclaim lost energy, nutrients and clean water from wastewater

• Feb 24, 2026

Wastewater contains untapped resources that, if reclaimed, could power agriculture, global sanitation, and its own treatment to help us meet UN SDG go...

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New technology reveals hidden DNA scaffolding built before life 'switches on'

• Feb 24, 2026

For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilized egg as a structural "blank slate"—a disordered tangle of DNA waiting for the embryo to...

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For Northeast blizzard, everything was just right to roll up a monster snowfall

• Feb 24, 2026

The nor'easter smacking much of the Northeast with nearly 3 feet of snow in places is as classic and powerful a blizzard as you can get, the strongest...

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Image: Curiosity rover surveys boxwork region of Mars

• Feb 24, 2026

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of boxwork formations—the low ridges seen here with hollows in between them—using its Mastcam on Se...

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Probability underlies much of the modern world—an engineering professor explains how it actually works

• Feb 24, 2026

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, "Probability is the most important concept i...

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Staple crops are a major contributor to global deforestation, says study

• Feb 23, 2026

Rice, maize, and cassava crops cumulatively account for approximately 11% of total global deforestation—exceeding that of cocoa, coffee, and rubber—ac...

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Sunlight-powered process turns plastic waste into acetic acid without added emissions

• Feb 23, 2026

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient of vinegar, using sunlight...

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Big broods, better manners: What a fish study suggests about siblings and social skills

• Feb 23, 2026

For many animals, siblings are a key component of their social environment during early life. Previous research has shown that the early social enviro...