The Columbia River Basin will be increasingly flooded over the next 50 years due to climate change, as new models from Oregon State University show. Flooding levels – the term used to describe the severity of flooding – are expected to increase throughout the basin, which includes the Columbia, Willamette, and Snake Rivers, as well […]
Antibiotic resistance may spread even more easily than expected – ScienceDaily
Pathogenic bacteria in humans develop resistance to antibiotics much faster than expected. Computer-aided studies at the Swedish Technical University of Chalmers now show that one reason could be a significant genetic transfer between bacteria in our ecosystems and to humans. This work has also led to new tools for resistance researchers. According to the World […]
White nose syndrome is expected to drastically affect hibernating bat species in the west – ScienceDaily
A four-year study recently published in Ecology and evolution concludes that the fungal disease, white nose syndrome, is a serious threat to many western North American bats. Since it was first discovered in 2006, white-nose syndrome has killed millions of bats in eastern and central North America. The spread of the fungal pathogen that causes […]
The difference by 2100 is expected to impact global biodiversity and food security – ScienceDaily
Future climate change, according to researchers from the University of California, Irvine and other institutions, will lead to a regionally uneven shift in the tropical rainbelt – a narrow band of heavy rainfall near the equator. This development can endanger food security for billions of people. In a study published today in Nature climate changeThe […]
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The first human culture lasted 20,000 years longer than expected – ScienceDaily
Field research under the direction of Dr. Eleanor Scerri, head of the Pan-African Evolution research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany and Dr. Khady Niang from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal has documented the youngest known occurrence of the Mesolithic. This repertoire of stone flake methods […]
Competing for partners results in a deeper voice than expected based on size – ScienceDaily
An analysis of the songs of most of the world's passerine birds shows that the frequency with which birds sing depends primarily on body size, but is also influenced by sexual selection. The new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and colleagues suggests that habitat features do not affect song frequency, […]