by Komoneed | Dec 30, 2024
More than a third of animals on Earth are herbivores, but since plants don’t have a lot of calories it can be hard for grazers to eat enough to meet their energy needs. To add to the problem, climate change is lowering the nutritional value of certain foods that these plant eaters rely on. Fossil […]
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by Komoneed | Dec 30, 2024
The holidays are a time for joy but also generate lots of waste. String lights…
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by Komoneed | Dec 26, 2024
Biologist Claudio Sillero first observed a curious behavior among Ethiopian wolves in the 1980s: these carnivores were licking the flowers of the red hot poker plant, native to Ethiopia’s highlands. New research now confirms this behavior and suggests that these wolves might act as unexpected pollinators. Published in Ecology in November, the study documents Ethiopian […]
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by Komoneed | Dec 26, 2024
The average person generates 4.9 pounds of waste each day, with more than 146 million…
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by Komoneed | Dec 26, 2024
A team of scientists in Germany and the United States has found that many tall, heavy buildings along South Florida’s coast are sinking into the earth much faster than expected. The researchers compared several years of satellite images to glean more information about continuing subsidence — where the altitude of a piece of land becomes […]
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