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- World-First Genetic Index Helps Aussie Farmers Breed Heat Tolerant Cows to Maintain Their Welfare–and Milk Supply
Australian dairies are breeding heat-tolerant cows and seeing big returns on hot days that are making the global industry stand up and take notice. Ever feel like wolfing down a big meal when it’s 85°F out with 80% humidity? If you recoil at the thought, that’s one thing you have in common with a dairy […]
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- Antarctica Gained 200 Billion Tons of Ice During Recent Two-Year Period, Surprising Scientists
Antarctica was in the news this week in a surprising way: it was gaining ice, rather than losing it. While Antarctic ice sheet loss has averaged around 147 gigatons per year for the period between 2010 and 2020, a remarkable reversal occurred at the opening of this decade. Writing in China Earth Sciences, researchers at […]
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- European Orchard Bee is Now a Valuable Pollinator in UK–Since the Weather Got Warmer
If you happen to be on a ramble in southern Britain next year, you may see a solitary orangish bee flitting between rising flowers as early as late February. Such days used to be too cold for Osmia cornuta, known as the European orchard bee, a regular pollinator in orchards on the mainland. However, rising global temperatures […]
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- Renowned Salk Institute Studies Native Plants for Drug Discoveries in Weight Loss, Allergies, Asthma, and Headaches
Scientists in San Diego are working alongside Native Americans to plumb the genetic depths of medicinal plants in the name of potentially commercializing them as medicines. Researchers from the renowned Salk Institute for Biological Studies work extensively at the Medicinal Plants Nursery in the San Diego Botanic Garden, growing and studying native California plants traditionally […]
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