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New finds in treasure-laden shipwreck off Colombia

New artifacts have been found on the legendary Spanish galleon San Jose, Colombia's government announced Thursday, after the first robotic exploration of the three-century-old shipwreck......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgAug 9th, 2024

Right whales are migrating in new areas, prompting need for better protections, report finds

Endangered Atlantic right whales are venturing to new areas, researchers have found in a recently released report, and many of those areas do not have speed limits on vessels......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 22nd, 2024

UN biodiversity summit hears appeals for action, money to save nature

The world's biggest nature protection conference opened in Colombia on Monday with calls for urgent action and financing to reverse humankind's rapacious destruction of biodiversity......»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsOct 21st, 2024

Docudrama can lead to more empathy toward people who are stigmatized in society, study finds

A new study has found that after watching a docudrama about the efforts to free a wrongly convicted prisoner on death row, people were more empathetic toward formerly incarcerated people and supportive of criminal justice reform......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 21st, 2024

Microbes in environment drove methane emissions more than fossil fuels between 2020 and 2022, analysis finds

Microbes in the environment, not fossil fuels, have been driving the recent surge in methane emissions globally, according to a new, detailed analysis published Oct 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by CU Boulder researchers a.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 21st, 2024

Nitrogen-fixing plant diversity declines with over-fertilization, study finds

Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition and climate change can reduce the competitive advantage of nitrogen-fixing plants, leading to reduced diversity of these plants in a community. Surprisingly, changes in temperature and aridity do not contribute to th.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 21st, 2024

UN biodiversity summit opens with call for "significant" funding

The world's biggest nature protection conference opens in Colombia Monday with the United Nations chief calling for countries to "convert words into action" and fatten a fund seeking to address biodiversity loss......»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsOct 21st, 2024

Departing ISS astronaut still finds time for stunning night shot

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick is grabbing some last-minute Earth shots from the ISS as he prepares to fly home after more than seven months in orbit......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsOct 21st, 2024

UN biodiversity conference: what"s at stake?

The world's pledges to halt humankind's destruction of nature will be put to the test when the 16th UN conference on biodiversity opens Monday in Colombia......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 20th, 2024

Well-being increases when working hours are reduced, finds Germany-wide study

Well-being increases when working hours are reduced—while productivity remains the same or even increases moderately. This was supported by a Germany-wide study conducted by the University of Münster under the scientific direction of Professor Dr......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 18th, 2024

Research finds 1.1 billion people in multidimensional poverty, with nearly a half-billion in conflict settings

New research from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) has found that poverty rates in conflict-affected nations are almost three times higher than in countries free from conflic.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 18th, 2024

American lobster population and habitat preferences shifting, study finds

American lobsters along Maine's coast have relocated to new habitats, while the population simultaneously shrunk in abundance and grew older, according to a new study by University of Maine researchers......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 18th, 2024

AI finds racial restrictions in millions of property records

California law requires counties to remove racially restrictive language—constitutionally unenforceable since 1948—from property deeds. Researchers trained a large language model to help......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 18th, 2024

Nonnative plants are a major force behind global insect invasions, study finds

In an article in the journal BioScience, an international team of researchers led by Dr. Cleo Bertelsmeier from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, argues that the global spread of nonnative plants is a key factor driving the growing number of i.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsOct 18th, 2024

Better ocean connectivity boosts reef fish populations, finds study

Research led by the University of Oxford has found that oceanographic connectivity (the movement and exchange of water between different parts of the ocean) is a key influence for fish abundance across the Western Indian Ocean (WIO). The findings are.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 18th, 2024

Philosopher finds glitch in worldwide patent laws

Dr. Mo Abolkheir, a philosopher specializing in inventions and patents, has identified a logical fallacy—a flawed argument that may appear valid but is based on faulty reasoning—within the law......»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsOct 17th, 2024

In search of evidence of ancient human existence, researchers traverse the inhospitable Namib desert

Strewn across the Namib desert is a treasure trove of stone tools of which little is known because getting to them is so difficult. There are few roads and vehicles have limited access in this protected area that lies in the desert of western Namibia.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 17th, 2024

"Nature markets" may help preserve biodiversity—but they risk repeating colonial patterns of Indigenous exploitation

As the latest global biodiversity summit gets underway in Colombia, finance for the conservation and restoration of nature is one of the key themes of negotiations......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 17th, 2024

Research finds that simplistic and outdated communication tools narrows news focus, restricts user interactivity

Digital media technology has changed journalism considerably, and perhaps most obviously in data journalism. Data journalism uses the power of data analysis and visualization to develop news stories that can be highly engaging and accessible to the p.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 17th, 2024

Plate tectonics drive compositional evolution of the upper mantle, study finds

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to these processes have been widely studied. However, when did global chemical heterogeneity of the conv.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 17th, 2024

Aquaculture uses far more wild fish than previously estimated, study finds

A study published in the journal Science Advances suggests that global fish farming, or aquaculture, may rely on significantly larger quantities of wild-caught ocean fish than previously calculated. The study is part of a special issue focused on exp.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 17th, 2024