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08-05-2025
Satellites capture dramatic shifts in Earth's forests
Forests act like natural storage units for carbon. Trees soak...
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08-04-2025
Oceans lag behind forests in Earth’s carbon fight
Terrestrial vegetation has been the foundation of food webs and...
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08-03-2025
Plants use unique strategies to budget water in the wild
It’s common knowledge that plants need water to survive, but...
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08-02-2025
Scientists manage to grow plants from ancient seeds that are 2,000 years old
Two thousand years ago, traders hauled baskets of dates along...
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08-02-2025
"Scrumping" apes may explain how humans started drinking alcohol
Walk through any African rainforest at the height of fruit...
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08-02-2025
Potato origins mystery solved after 9 million years
An ancient encounter between distant plant relatives forever changed agriculture....
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08-01-2025
Forests rely on animals to help fight climate change
We hear a lot about how climate change affects animals...
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08-01-2025
Small DNA tweak protects plants from devastating crop disease
Farmers lose billions of dollars each year to diseases that...
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07-31-2025
Virtual nature scenes provide relief from chronic pain
A recent study has revealed that immersion in virtual reality...
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2025/07/cannabis-users_oral-cancer-risk-very-high_1m.jpg
07-31-2025
Cannabis users face a significantly higher oral cancer risk, similar to cigarette smokers
More people in the United States now smoke cannabis every...
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07-30-2025
'Terrifying' sea stars could be key to kelp forest recovery
Sea urchins don’t understand predators the way we do. They...
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07-29-2025
Scientists invented a process that makes wood stronger than steel
When trees topple into peat bogs or riverbeds, a slow...
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