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Understanding changes in reducing pesticide use by farmers: Contribution of the behavioural sciences

Agricultural land is a socio-ecological system in which environmental, economic, agronomic and social components are closely linked and interact in a non-linear and complex way.…

January 23, 2024

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Environmental and geographical factors influence the occurrence and abundance of the southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, in Hawai‘i

Hawaiian honeycreepers, a group of endemic Hawaiian forest birds, are being threatened by avian malaria, a non-native disease that is driving honeycreepers populations to…

January 23, 2024

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Animal evolution at the ocean’s water-air interface

Innovation is a key to evolutionary success and entrance into novel ecosystems.1 Species that float freely at the ocean’s surface, termed obligate neuston (also called, …

January 23, 2024

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Unearthing the Ecological Impacts of Cicada Emergences on North American Forests

New research unveils the cascading effects of periodical cicada emergence events on forest ecosystems ahead of an historic convergence of broods set to emerge spring of 2024.…

October 19, 2023

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Humanity for Habitat: Residential Yards as an Opportunity for Biodiversity Conservation

The primary threat to biodiversity is habitat loss and degradation. Private residential land (yards) encompass large proportions of urban, suburban, and rural spaces and is among…

October 5, 2023

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How environmental, geographic, socio-demographic, and epidemiological indicators influence malaria prevalence

In this study, 27 years of prevalence data (1990-2017) were used to examine the effects of environmental (temperature, precipitation, normalized difference vegetation index,…

October 3, 2023

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Weaponizing Water: Water Stress and Islamic Extremist Violence in Africa and the Middle East By Marcus D. King

King...argues that all three insurgencies have weaponized the need for water to cause terror and advance their strategic goals. They have sought to take over water, …

August 22, 2023

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Microplastics and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Abundance, Distribution, and Chemical Analyses in the Nash Run, an Urban Tributary to the Anacostia River (Washington, DC, USA)

This is the first study that shows the presence of microplastics in both water and sediment and the presence of specific polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediment at the same…

July 19, 2023

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Energy Democracy in a Federal and Localist System: Georgetown Scholars Investigate a Crucial Component of Just Energy Governance in the Coming Decades

Foster and Chertoff explore how different levels of governmental regimes impact energy democracy, comparing how legal and policy levers (authorities, mandates, funding, and power…

June 20, 2023

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Pacific Garbage Patch gathering place for debris, life thanks to currents

Converging ocean currents bring floating life and garbage together Community science survey reveals abundance of sea creatures in the North Pacific “Garbage Patch” The North…

May 4, 2023