A new paper in FEMS Yeast Research reveals the possible origin story of lager beers. Using historical records and contemporary phylogenomics research, investigators here show where lagers likely first originated: at the court ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 27, 2023
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A new study has for the first time predicted which invasive species could pose a future threat to the UK's ecologically unique Overseas Territories.
Ecology
Jan 30, 2023
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Invasive land snail species can displace native species and harm human health. A recent study by the Leibniz Institute for Biodiversity Change Analysis (LIB) compiles an overview of the exponential increase and dynamic spread ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 19, 2023
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Foot-and-mouth disease now poses a high threat to Australia. This highly contagious livestock virus is sweeping Indonesia—the closest it's been to Australia since the 1980s. A large outbreak here could cause decimate the ...
Ecology
Aug 12, 2022
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Sudanese mother Awadya Ahmed has long wondered why her youngest child Talab was born blind and unable to walk; now she suspects the piles of poisonous waste left by gold miners.
Environment
Jul 18, 2022
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Record floods in southern China this month displaced more than half a million people, while searing heat buckled roads in other parts of the country.
Environment
Jun 25, 2022
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The Western Pacific Subtropical High (WPSH) is an anticyclonic atmospheric system hovering over the middle and lower troposphere of the northwestern Pacific, dominating summer climate extremes in the densely populated countries ...
Environment
May 30, 2022
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There has been a lot of discussion in Canada lately about the financial costs of achieving the country's climate targets. And rightly so. The situation is urgent and we need to act now.
Economics & Business
May 19, 2022
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Changing the way fruit is gathered from a "tree of life" could have hugely positive environmental and financial impacts in Amazonia, according to a new study.
Environment
Apr 4, 2022
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Economic models of climate change may have substantially underestimated the costs of continued warming, according to a new study involving UCL researchers.
Environment
Sep 6, 2021
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