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Eric Carrasco
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Aliens: the spread of invasive plants and animals across Europe – in pictures | Photography | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Aliens: the spread of invasive plants and animals across Europe – in pictures
Erik Irmer has been documenting the spread of invasive plant and animal species that disrupt native ecology across Europe. He focuses on humans’ interactions with these plants and animals. Aliens is p...
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January 5, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Immunological sin: how a person’s earliest flu infections dictate life-long immunity www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Immunological sin: how a person’s earliest flu infections dictate life-long immunity
Researchers are striving to understand the impact a phenomenon known as original antigenic sin has on immunity to the virus.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I’ve earned my PhD — what now? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I’ve earned my PhD — what now?
A chemist faces a classic early-career dilemma: what should they do next, and how do they start?
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December 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their own queen | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
This parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their own queen
Scientists capture a unique—and gruesome—example of matricide in the animal kingdom
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November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This beloved animal is back from the brink of extinction — with one big caveat www.vox.com/climate/4662...
This beloved animal is back from the brink of extinction — with one big caveat
Decades of protection helped these sea creatures recover. So why are some scientists worried?
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October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
These stinkbugs coat their eggs in fungi to protect them from parasitic wasps | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
These stinkbugs coat their eggs in fungi to protect them from parasitic wasps
An unusual relationship could shed light on how insects choose their partners
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October 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
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October 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Skinned for Profit: How Global Trade Is Driving Africa’s Donkeys to the Brink • The Revelator therevelator.org/skinned-for-...
Skinned for Profit: How Global Trade Is Driving Africa’s Donkeys to the Brink • The Revelator
Millions of animals are slaughtered each year for use in traditional Chinese medicine — a trade that’s devastating many African communities.
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September 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this.
Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature handsoffnature.eu?utm=.share.b...
Hands Off Nature – Defend Europe’s Forests, Rivers & Wildlife
Stop the dismantling of European environmental protections. Stand up for forests, wildlife, clean air, and safe water - our nature depends on it.
handsoffnature.eu
September 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Mongabay shark meat exposé sparks call for hearing and industry debate news.mongabay.com/2025/08/mong...
Mongabay shark meat exposé sparks call for hearing and industry debate
Endangered shark meat and heavy metals found in Brazil’s public food trigger a reckoning.
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September 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Streetlights are quietly rewriting the rules of birdsong Light pollution is making many birds sing nearly an hour longer at dawn or dusk; whether that is helpful or harmful for the birds is an open question. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/08/stre...
Streetlights are quietly rewriting the rules of birdsong
Light pollution is making many birds sing nearly an hour longer at dawn or dusk; whether that is helpful or harmful for the birds is an open question.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
August 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Nikola Tesla's Obsession with Pigeons, Electricity, and a Plan to Wirelessly Connect the World nautil.us/teslas-pigeo...
October 6, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Baby tardigrade riding a nematode | 2024 Small World in Motion Competition | Nikon’s Small World www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
October 5, 2024 at 8:49 PM