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One of the great challenges of ecology is to understand the factors that maintain, or undermine, diversity in ecosystems, researchers write in a new report in the journal Science. The researchers ...

Carbon dioxide emissions from rising magma is one of the earliest signs that a volcano is waking up, but measuring it directly is notoriously difficult. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes ...

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Harsh, eco-unfriendly synthetic herbicides are definitely one of those things that you shouldn't be using if you don't have ...