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5,510 results for: Forests

  1. Climate

    Earth keeps breaking global heat records

    How hot could it get? In the first edition of Science News’ Extreme Climate Update, we look at how high temperatures could soar.

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  2. Particle Physics

    A major new neutrino experiment is nearing completion

    The JUNO experiment, which will study the ways of the electrically neutral subatomic particles, will be the largest of its kind.

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  3. Life

    Mega El Niños kicked off the world’s worst mass extinction

    Long-lasting, widespread heat and weather extremes may have caused the Great Dying extinction event 252 million years ago.

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  4. Animals

    This bird hasn’t been seen in 38 years. Its song may help track it down

    Using bioacoustics, South American scientists are eavesdropping on a forest in hopes of hearing the song of the long-missing purple-winged ground dove.

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  5. Readers discuss grassland conservation and a hummingbird flight trick

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  6. Rethinking how we live with wildfires

    Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses a new approach for managing wildfires that includes collaboration with local and Indigenous communities.

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  7. Animals

    This orangutan used a medicinal plant on his face wound

    Rakus the orangutan appeared to be treating a cut to his face with a plant that’s also used in traditional human medicine.

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  8. Environment

    Surviving a drought may help forests weather future dry spells

    Climate change is making droughts more intense and frequent, but conifer forests have a trick up their sleeve, airplane and satellite data show.

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  9. Life

    The largest known genome belongs to a tiny fern

    Though 'Tmesipteris oblanceolata' is just 15 centimeters long, its genome dwarfs humans’ by more than 50 times.

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  10. Plants

    This first-of-its-kind palm plant flowers and fruits entirely underground

    Though rare, plants across 33 families are known for subterranean flowering or fruiting. This is the first example in a palm.

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  11. Life

    Here are some stellar picks from Nikon’s top microscopy images of 2024

    The annual Small World photomicrography competition, now in its 50th year, puts life’s smallest details under the microscope.

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  12. Animals

    Some African birds follow nomadic ants to their next meal

    Specialized interactions between birds and driver ants in Africa could help explain why the birds are especially sensitive to forest disturbances.

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