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Learn from the habitat “haves” to help save an endangered rattlesnake

Newswise – COLUMBUS, Ohio – Comparing the genetics and patterns of ‘have’ and ‘have-not’ habitat relocation among two populations of threatened rattlesnakes has yielded a new way to use landscape science data to guide landscape planning. conservation that would give the have-nots a better chance of surviving. The study suggests that a collection of six …

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Scientists are building a 'second sun' - can it save our dying planet?

Scientists are building a ‘second sun’ – can it save our dying planet?

Nuclear fusion. He’s an integral part of the time-traveling DeLorean in Back to the futureand it allows Doctor Octopus to harness “the power of the sun” in 2004 Spiderman 2 (a movie I’ve watched so many times on VHS that the villain’s feisty origin story was literally seared into my eight-year-old brain). Now, however, the …

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Want to eat healthy and save the planet?  Replace beef with spirulina algae, researchers say

Want to eat healthy and save the planet? Replace beef with spirulina algae, researchers say

Diagram of the spirulina production system and biomass flow. Credit: marine biotechnology (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s10126-022-10173-5 A new study led by Dr. Asaf Tzachor, in collaboration with an international team of scientists, analyzed a state-of-the-art biotechnology system that cultivates spirulina. The system, designed and operated by Vaxa Impact Nutrition, is placed in the ON Power Geothermal …

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Save whales or eat lobster? The battle reaches the White House

French President Macron may not have realized it, but he got into another fishing war earlier this month when he and 200 other guests were treated to Maine lobster at the White House. poached in butter accented with American Osetra caviar and topped with crispy celery. The problem was lobsters, currently subject to a court …

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Reviews |  Want to save the planet?  Focus on feral cats.

Reviews | Want to save the planet? Focus on feral cats.

Comment this story Comment John Goodrich is the chief scientist of Panthera, the global wildcat conservation organization. Global biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, with more than one million species threatened with extinction. This week, the governments of most nations around the world will meet at COP15 – the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal …

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A plan to save the planet: a new book on climate change summarizes three years of research by the Manhattan Project 2

A plan to save the planet: a new book on climate change summarizes three years of research by the Manhattan Project 2

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., December 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Today announced the completion of three years of research by The manhattan 2 Project, a non-profit organization that studies how to solve climate change in a least-cost and politically feasible way. Cover of the book “A plan to save the planet”. The results are consolidated in a new …

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Embrace what might be the most important green technology of all time. It Could Save Us All | George Monbiot

So what do we do now? After 27 summits and no effective action, it seems the real goal was to get us talking. If governments had taken the prevention of climate degradation seriously, there would have been no Cops 2-27. The main issues would have been resolved at COP1, as the ozone layer depletion crisis …

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States Join Forces to Save Endangered Allegheny Woodrat

States Join Forces to Save Endangered Allegheny Woodrat

A captured Allegheny wood rat is released into its rocky home in Maryland’s Savage River State Forest. Dan Feller Wildlife managers in all Chesapeake Bay states have joined forces in perhaps a last-ditch effort to save the Allegheny woodrat. Notwithstanding its name, the squirrel-sized rodent is more closely related to mice and hamsters than to …

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Wildlife conservation tends to save charismatic species.  That might be about to change

Wildlife conservation tends to save charismatic species. That might be about to change

Peter Petokas, from the Clean Water Institute at Lycoming College, and Michelle Herman, from the Wetland Trust, with a young hellbender they helped raise in captivity and released in 2018. Laura Benshoff/NPR hide caption toggle caption Laura Benshoff/NPR Peter Petokas, from the Clean Water Institute at Lycoming College, and Michelle Herman, from the Wetland Trust, …

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