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Roadless Rule Helps Protect Clean Drinking Water for 25 Million Americans, New Study Shows
Approximately 90% of the U.S. population relies on public water systems.
AI Tool Reveals Climate Shifts May Have Fueled Bursts of Bird Evolution
University of Michigan researchers have used an AI tool to demonstrate that birds in the group Passeriformes evolved in rapid evolutionary bursts and that these bursts frequently coincided with climate shifts throughout Earth’s history.
URI Researchers Discover Rare Freshwater Mussels in Moosup River
When University of Rhode Island researchers slipped beneath the surface of the Moosup River recently, they did not expect to find a living freshwater mussel community.
How an Influx of Salt May Affect Microbial Ecosystems
As sea levels rise and saltwater seeps into freshwater, stressed aquatic populations may retain overall growth even as diversity declines, MIT scientists find.
Climate Change is Forcing Amphibians to Change Their Diet – But They Can Only Adapt so Far
New research involving Queen Mary University of London reveals that amphibians can change what they eat to cope with rising temperatures, but that this natural survival strategy has limits.




