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For decades, scientists have known that blue light will make fruit flies go blind, but it wasn’t clear why. Now, a Purdue University study has found how this light kills cells in the flies’ eyes, and that could prove a useful model for understanding human ocular diseases such as macular degeneration.
El gas Shale es una de las formas menos sostenibles de producir electricidad, según una nueva investigación de la Universidad de Manchester.
Ocean sediments are a massive storehouse for the potent greenhouse gas methane.
Wildfires, extreme storms and major weather events can seem like a distant threat, but for those whose lives have been directly impacted by these events, the threat hits much closer to home.
Alberta’s predator compensation program offsets costs of conserving wildlife habitat on private lands in the province.
Financial aid to fisheries in developing countries has declined by 30 percent, finds a new study from UBC and Stockholm Resilience Centre researchers, published in Marine Policy. Projects focusing on climate issues in fisheries had a 77 percent decline over the five years studied.
