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  Multi-Toxin Biotech Crops Not Silver Bullets, Scientists Warn

  March 30, 2013 — The widely used strategy of endowing crops with redundant toxins to fend off pests rests on flawed assumptions, researchers have discovered. Their study helps explain why pests are evolving ... > full story
• Agriculture and Food
  Life Sciences
  Endangered Plants
  Drought
  Genetics
  Botany
   

  Gene Responsible for Short Stature of Dwarf Pearl Millet Identified

  March 29, 2013 — Recently, plant geneticists have successfully isolated the gene that creates dwarfed varieties of pearl millet. It is the first time a gene controlling an important agronomic trait has been isolated ... > full story
• Endangered Plants
  Botany
  Molecular Biology
  Agriculture and Food
  Renewable Energy
  Genetics
   
  

  Researchers Engineer Plant Cell Walls to Boost Sugar Yields for Biofuels

  March 29, 2013 — Using the tools of synthetic biology, researchers are engineering healthy plants whose lignocellulosic biomass can more easily be broken down into simple sugars for the production of clean, green and ... > full story
• Seeds
  Agriculture and Food
  Botany
  Climate
  Life Sciences
  Genetics
   
  

  Gene Discovery May Yield Lettuce That Will Sprout in Hot Weather

  March 29, 2013 — Plant scientists have identified a lettuce gene and related enzyme that put the brakes on germination during hot weather -- a discovery that could lead to lettuces that can sprout year-round, even at ... > full story
• Extreme Survival
  Geochemistry
  Marine Biology
  Acid Rain
  Mining
  Environmental Issues
   
  

  Picking Apart Photosynthesis: New Insights Could Lead to Better Catalysts for Water Splitting

  March 29, 2013 — Chemists believe they can now explain one of the remaining mysteries of photosynthesis. The finding suggests a new way of approaching the design of catalysts that drive the water-splitting reactions ... > full story
• Rainforests
  Endangered Animals
  Extinction
  Trees
  Forest
  Nature
   
  

  Decimation of Critically Endangered Forest Elephant Detailed

  March 29, 2013 — African forest elephants are being poached out of existence. A new study shows that a staggering 62 percent of all forest elephants have been killed across their range in central Africa, for their ... > full story
• Endangered Animals
  Nature
  New Species
  Endangered Plants
  Ecology
  Extinction
   
  

  Splendid Skadar Lake (Montenegro and Albania) Surprises With New Species of Snails

  March 29, 2013 — The Skadar Lake system at the border of Montenegro and Albania is a well-known hotspot of freshwater biodiversity and harbors a highly diverse mollusc fauna. As in many of the Balkan lakes, the ... > full story
• Animals
  Mammals
  Tundra
  Endangered Animals
  Nature
  Ecology
   
  

  Black Bears on the Rebound in Nevada

  March 29, 2013 — A new study has pieced together the last 150 years of history for one of the Nevada's most interesting denizens: the black ... > full story
• Global Warming
  Climate
  Environmental Issues
  Weather
  Atmosphere
  Sports Medicine
   

  Is Global Warming Slowing Boston Marathon Winning Times?

  March 29, 2013 — Researchers recently looked into whether the effects of climate change can be found in the winning times of Boston Marathon ... > full story
• Energy and the Environment
  Renewable Energy
  Electricity
  Environmental Science
  Petroleum
  Thermodynamics
   
  

  'Waste Heat' May Economize CO2 Capture

  March 29, 2013 — Scientists have found it may be possible to use "waste" heat to remove CO2 instead of the higher pressure steam needed to make ... > full story

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