Weekly Roundup | Earth and Nature: Top 20 stories of the week of Mar 30th - Apr 6th, 2017
"Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky." - Janet Morris
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1 +17y+ ago
Bugs don’t recognize nationality
Microbes have not yet met an ocean, wall, or national border they could not permeate. Zika once again has demonstrated that large and small countries, relatively wealthy and relatively poorer countries all are dependent on a larger infrastructure for their national health security – even the United States cannot rely solely on itself to fight an outbreak or protect itself and Americans from the next outbreak. By Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar.
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Submitted on April 2nd 2017 by gladsdotter with 2 comments
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2 +17y+ ago
Bernie Sanders says oil company knows more about climate change than 'pathetic' Donald Trump
Bernie Sanders has claimed that an oil company “understands more about climate change” than Donald Trump, after ExxonMobil urged the government not to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord. In a letter to the government, a senior official from the US’s largest oil company, said the accord signed in 2015 was “an effective framework for addressing the risks of climate change”. “It is prudent that the United States remain a party to the...
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Submitted on March 31st 2017 by ckshenn with 1 comments
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3 +17y+ ago
Filming mosquitoes reveals a completely new approach to flight
Mosquitos generate lift via three mechanisms, two of them new to us.
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Submitted on March 31st 2017 by kxh with 1 comments
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4 +17y+ ago
Researchers identify genes that give cannabis its flavour
UBC scientists have scanned the genome of cannabis plants to find the genes responsible for giving various strains their lemony, skunky or earthy flavours, an important step for the budding legal cannabis industry. “The goal is to develop well-defined and highly-reproducible cannabis varieties. This is similar to the wine industry, which depends on defined varieties such as chardonnay or merlot for high value products,” said Jörg Bohlmann, a professor in the Michael Smith Laboratories...
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Submitted on March 31st 2017 by zritic
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5 +17y+ ago
Forget the lawnmower – just let your grass grow
If you want to encourage wildflowers in your garden, leave your lawn to its own devices, argues Trevor Dines, botanist at conservation charity Plantlife.
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Submitted on March 30th 2017 by gladsdotter with 6 comments
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6 +17y+ ago
Why tickling empowers sensitive seedlings
Strokes of genius for strengthening young plants when they are at their most vulnerable, by James Wong
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Submitted on April 3rd 2017 by gladsdotter
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7 +17y+ ago
Ice age art and 'jewellery' found in an Indonesian cave reveal an ancient symbolic culture
Ancient bone and teeth ornaments found in an Indonesian cave advance our knowledge of the culture and traditions of some of the earliest people in our region.
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Submitted on April 4th 2017 by kxh with 1 comments
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8 +17y+ ago
Nearly extinct tigers found breeding in Thai jungle
Hopes rise for critically endangered big cats, with only 221 Indochinese tigers thought to remain in Thailand and Myanmar
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Submitted on March 30th 2017 by estherschindler with 1 comments
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9 +17y+ ago
For the first time, we know what Tyrannosaur faces really looked like
No feathers, but specialized scales on its snout could sense vibration, heat.
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Submitted on March 30th 2017 by Appaloosa with 2 comments
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10 +17y+ ago
A Sculpture of a Buddhist Deity Made From 20,000 Beetles
Located roughly an hour north from central Tokyo is a fairly nondescript government building: Itakura Town Hall in Gifu prefecture. The building houses a small gallery that counts among its collections various obscure pottery work and paintings as well as a glass-enclosed sculpture of a Buddhist deity made from roughly 20,000 beetles in numerous varieties. If you have any form of entomophobia or insectophobia I suggest you don’t read on.
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Submitted on March 31st 2017 by gladsdotter
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11 +17y+ ago
29 Plants You Should Always Grow Side-by-Side
Companion planting just may help your garden grow.
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Submitted on April 2nd 2017 by Appaloosa with 2 comments
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12 +17y+ ago
Plunging price of renewable energy makes end of fossil fuels inevitable, says report
The transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy “now appears irreversible” as the cost of green power plunges, according to a new report. In The Transition Takes Hold, Clean Energy Canada said some 6.7 million people were working in the sector worldwide with one out of every 50 new jobs in the US being created by the solar industry alone. And it highlighted prediction that generation costs for large-scale solar power plants were expected to drop by a massive 57 per cent by 2025, with onshore and offshore wind expected to become 26 and 35 per cent respectively.
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Submitted on March 31st 2017 by tukka
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13 +17y+ ago
1,000-Year-Old Toy Viking Boat Unearthed in Norway
A wooden toy discovered during an excavation of an Iron Age site in central Norway hints that 1,000 years ago, a child may have imagined ferocious Viking battles by playing with a carved replica of a ship. Found buried in a dry well at a small farm in the town of Ørland on the coastal tundra, the boat is whittled in a style resembling Viking vessels, with an uplifted prow and a hole in the center that likely held a mast for a sail.
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Submitted on March 31st 2017 by Pfennig88
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14 +17y+ ago
Amazon Alexa Moments: Petlexa (Amazon Echo Commercial)
The best techie April Fool's joke I found was this charming one from Amazon. Petlexa.
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Submitted on April 2nd 2017 by sjvn with 1 comments
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15 +17y+ ago
Letter From a Drowned Canyon
The story of water in the West, climate change, and the birth of the environmentalism lies at the bottom of Lake Powell. By Rebecca Solnit. Photographs by Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe.
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Submitted on April 2nd 2017 by gladsdotter
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16 +17y+ ago
In Poland’s Crooked Forest, a Mystery With No Straight Answer
In Poland’s Krzywy Las, or Crooked Forest, the pine trees look like potbellied stick figures.
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Submitted on March 31st 2017 by LisMan
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17 +17y+ ago
Oregon set to double recycling rate to 10 cents a can
Oregon's first-in-the-nation bottle recycling program will now double the payout for used soda cans and glass bottles, and frugal residents have been stockpiling for months in anticipation. With other recycling options now commonplace, this eco-trailblazing Pacific Northwest state is hoping to revamp the program with the increase from 5 to 10 cents for bottled and canned water, soda, beer and malt beverages — regardless what their labels say.
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Submitted on April 1st 2017 by weekendhobo with 1 comments
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18 +17y+ ago
Colombia landslides: Scores killed after heavy rain hits south-west
Landslides have killed at least 112 people in south-west Colombia and left many more injured, says President Juan Manuel Santos. Hours of heavy rains overnight caused rivers to burst their banks, flooding homes with mud in Putumayo province. An unknown number of people are missing. One army officer said the main local hospital was struggling to cope.
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Submitted on April 2nd 2017 by messi
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19 +17y+ ago
Blood-Engorged Tick Found in Dominican Amber
A blood-engorged nymphal tick of the genus Amblyomma surrounded by fossilized mammalian erythrocytes (red blood cells) has been discovered in a piece of 15-45-million-year-old amber. The discovery is reported March 20 in the online edition of the Journal of Medical Entomology.
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Submitted on April 4th 2017 by kxh
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20 +17y+ ago
The Ethical Battle Over Ancient DNA
Ancient DNA researchers have learned to collaborate with American Indian tribes in relevant cases. But still more sensitivity is needed.
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Submitted on March 31st 2017 by estherschindler
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Great roundup!