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Environmental: General Environmental: Water Geoscience: Environmental Issues
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US Clean Water Act leaves about 55% of water flowing out of rivers vulnerable to pollution      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

The Supreme Court ruled last year that rivers that only flow in response to weather events -- called...

Biology: Microbiology
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Acting fast when an epidemic hits      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers have developed a method for forecasting the short-term progression of an epidemic using...

Environmental: General Geoscience: Environmental Issues Geoscience: Geography
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How geography acts as a structural determinant of health      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

In unincorporated communities in the United States-Mexico borderlands, historically and socially mar...

Biology: Biochemistry Biology: Microbiology
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New strategies reduce treatment failure in malaria by up to 81%      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

To slow artemisinin resistance and reduce treatment failures, an international research team investi...

Environmental: General Geoscience: Environmental Issues Geoscience: Geochemistry
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Act now to prevent uncontrolled rise in carbon footprint of computational science      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Scientists have set out principles for how computational science -- which powers discoveries from un...

Environmental: General Geoscience: Environmental Issues Geoscience: Geography
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Naming and shaming can be effective to get countries to act on climate      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Enforcement is one of the biggest challenges to international cooperation on mitigating climate chan...

Biology: Biochemistry Biology: Cell Biology Biology: General
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Stinky, bitter, and painful: A novel insect repellent attacks multiple sensory pathways      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers found that a Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) A1 stimulant, 2-methylthiazoline (2MT),...

Environmental: Water Geoscience: Environmental Issues
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2020 US rule dramatically deregulated wetlands, streams and drinking water      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

New research used machine learning to more accurately predict which waterways are protected by the C...

Mathematics: General Mathematics: Statistics Offbeat: Computers and Math
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Number cruncher calculates whether whales are acting weirdly      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

We humans can be a scary acquaintance for whales in the wild. This includes marine biologists taggin...

Geoscience: Geography Geoscience: Oceanography Mathematics: General Mathematics: Modeling
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Researchers develop a new control method that optimizes autonomous ship navigation      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Existing ship control systems using Model Predictive Control for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (...

Biology: Developmental
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Study finds a surprising new role for a major immune regulator      (via sciencedaily.com) 

The immune regulatory protein STING has a previously unknown function: acting as an ion channel that ...

Ecology: Endangered Species Ecology: Extinction Ecology: Invasive Species Geoscience: Environmental Issues
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Climate change threatens 771 endangered plant and lichen species      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

All plants and lichens listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act are sensitive to climat ...