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Wikipedia is so great and important: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0...
Wikipedia and the Destruction of Trust
YouTube video by Hank Green
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Wikipedia is so great and important: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0...
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ICYMI: New online! A role for lithium in Alzheimer disease
A role for lithium in Alzheimer disease
Nature Reviews Neurology, Published online: 08 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41582-025-01143-1A role for lithium in Alzheimer disease
bit.ly
September 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
ICYMI: New online! A role for lithium in Alzheimer disease
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Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but its success depends on how and where it’s done.
A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely to deliver climate, biodiversity and community benefits, while avoiding negative trade-offs.
A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely to deliver climate, biodiversity and community benefits, while avoiding negative trade-offs.
New study pinpoints tree-planting hotspots for climate and biodiversity gains
Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but scientists warn that planting trees indiscriminately isn’t effective. Its success depends on how and, crucially, where it’s done. A…
news.mongabay.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but its success depends on how and where it’s done.
A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely to deliver climate, biodiversity and community benefits, while avoiding negative trade-offs.
A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely to deliver climate, biodiversity and community benefits, while avoiding negative trade-offs.
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Luonnonmetsän keittäminen selluksi on käänteistä arvonlisää järjettömässä mittakaavassa.
Valtava elonkirjon rikkaus muutetaan bulkiksi teollisuustuotteeksi.
Elinympäristöjen pirstoutumisen takia haitta on vielä suoraa vaikutusta suurempi.
yle.fi/a/74-20178686
Valtava elonkirjon rikkaus muutetaan bulkiksi teollisuustuotteeksi.
Elinympäristöjen pirstoutumisen takia haitta on vielä suoraa vaikutusta suurempi.
yle.fi/a/74-20178686
Järjestö: UPM keitti harvinaisesta luonnonmetsästä sellua – jäi kiinni, kun aktivistit seurasivat puukuormaa
Greenpeace ja Metsäliike käyttivät teknistä paikannusta puukuormien paikannuksessa. Yle on nähnyt paikannustiedot ja varmistanut, minne puu on mennyt.
yle.fi
August 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Luonnonmetsän keittäminen selluksi on käänteistä arvonlisää järjettömässä mittakaavassa.
Valtava elonkirjon rikkaus muutetaan bulkiksi teollisuustuotteeksi.
Elinympäristöjen pirstoutumisen takia haitta on vielä suoraa vaikutusta suurempi.
yle.fi/a/74-20178686
Valtava elonkirjon rikkaus muutetaan bulkiksi teollisuustuotteeksi.
Elinympäristöjen pirstoutumisen takia haitta on vielä suoraa vaikutusta suurempi.
yle.fi/a/74-20178686
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Drinks in glass bottles had five to 50 times more microplastic fragments than in plastic bottles.
"Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles"
Reference
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles"
Reference
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Drinks in glass bottles had five to 50 times more microplastic fragments than in plastic bottles.
"Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles"
Reference
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles"
Reference
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
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New paper! led by Ruben Bernardo-Madrid "A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions" in NEE @natureportfolio.nature.com
Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Ecological assemblages may be spatially organized by both context dependency and general processes. Here the authors find general patterns in the organization of regional biodiversity in biogeographic...
doi.org
June 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
New paper! led by Ruben Bernardo-Madrid "A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions" in NEE @natureportfolio.nature.com
Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Researchers have released new maps documenting the “Great Nile Migration,” the Earth’s largest-known land mammal migration across South Sudan and Ethiopia.
The maps chart the seasonal movements of two antelope species, the white-eared kob and the tiang.
The maps chart the seasonal movements of two antelope species, the white-eared kob and the tiang.
New maps reveal Earth’s largest land mammal migration
Researchers have released new maps documenting the “Great Nile Migration,” the Earth’s largest-known land mammal migration across South Sudan and Ethiopia. The maps chart the seasonal movements of…
news.mongabay.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Researchers have released new maps documenting the “Great Nile Migration,” the Earth’s largest-known land mammal migration across South Sudan and Ethiopia.
The maps chart the seasonal movements of two antelope species, the white-eared kob and the tiang.
The maps chart the seasonal movements of two antelope species, the white-eared kob and the tiang.
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Peatlands are one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. Despite covering just 3-4% of Earth’s land surface, they’re thought to store more carbon per area than the world’s forests combined.
In honor of World Peatland Day on June 2 here's three recent Mongabay stories on this critical ecosystem...
In honor of World Peatland Day on June 2 here's three recent Mongabay stories on this critical ecosystem...
World Peatland Day: Protecting a crucial carbon sink
Peatlands are one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. These naturally waterlogged boggy swamps can hold thousands of years’ worth of compressed, partially decomposed vegetation matter — despite…
news.mongabay.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Peatlands are one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. Despite covering just 3-4% of Earth’s land surface, they’re thought to store more carbon per area than the world’s forests combined.
In honor of World Peatland Day on June 2 here's three recent Mongabay stories on this critical ecosystem...
In honor of World Peatland Day on June 2 here's three recent Mongabay stories on this critical ecosystem...
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Tervetuloa ahmat! Vanhojen ja yhtenäisten metsäalueiden arvo korostuu tässäkin.
www.verdelehti.fi/2025/06/02/a...
www.verdelehti.fi/2025/06/02/a...
Ahmat ovat palaamassa Etelä-Suomeen – utelias näätäeläin viihtyy vanhoissa yhtenäisissä metsissä
Itä-Suomen ahmakanta on leviämässä yhä etelämmäksi, paljastaa Aalto-yliopiston tutkimus. Uudet reviirit ovat yhtenäisiä ja vanhoja metsiä, mutta tutkijoiden yllätykseksi ahmalle kelpaa etelässä myös l...
www.verdelehti.fi
June 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Tervetuloa ahmat! Vanhojen ja yhtenäisten metsäalueiden arvo korostuu tässäkin.
www.verdelehti.fi/2025/06/02/a...
www.verdelehti.fi/2025/06/02/a...
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Critics say the EU’s anti-deforestation law, the EUDR, uses a risk classification system that overlooks critical issues like governance, corruption and law enforcement capacity, missing systemic failures and enforcement gaps — the very conditions that enable illegal deforestation to flourish.
EUDR risk classifications omit governance & enforcement failures, critics say
SINGAPORE — The EU’s landmark anti-deforestation law is under fire for a risk classification system that critics say overlooks illegal logging and governance failures — potentially undermining the…
news.mongabay.com
June 4, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Critics say the EU’s anti-deforestation law, the EUDR, uses a risk classification system that overlooks critical issues like governance, corruption and law enforcement capacity, missing systemic failures and enforcement gaps — the very conditions that enable illegal deforestation to flourish.
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For the last several decades, global biodiversity has been in crisis. Yet, as we celebrate International Day for Biodiversity on May 22, which commemorates the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, we offer some recent Mongabay stories highlighting lessons from undoing past harms:
Why biological diversity should be at the heart of conservation
For the last several decades, global biodiversity has been in crisis. Yet, as we celebrate International Day for Biodiversity on May 22, which commemorates the adoption of the Convention on…
news.mongabay.com
May 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
For the last several decades, global biodiversity has been in crisis. Yet, as we celebrate International Day for Biodiversity on May 22, which commemorates the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, we offer some recent Mongabay stories highlighting lessons from undoing past harms:
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May 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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When Did The Earth's Magnetic Field Form?
When Did The Earth's Magnetic Field Form?
The earliest evidence of Earth's magnetic field coincides with the earliest evidence of life.
www.iflscience.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
When Did The Earth's Magnetic Field Form?
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Move over mitochondria, a new organelle called the nitroplast is here.
In a Science study last year, researchers reported that a nitrogen-fixing organelle has been identified in a marine alga.
Learn more in this #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/49GjClc #ScienceMagArchives
In a Science study last year, researchers reported that a nitrogen-fixing organelle has been identified in a marine alga.
Learn more in this #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/49GjClc #ScienceMagArchives
The nitroplast: A nitrogen-fixing organelle
A bacterial endosymbiont of marine algae evolved to an organelle
scim.ag
April 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Move over mitochondria, a new organelle called the nitroplast is here.
In a Science study last year, researchers reported that a nitrogen-fixing organelle has been identified in a marine alga.
Learn more in this #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/49GjClc #ScienceMagArchives
In a Science study last year, researchers reported that a nitrogen-fixing organelle has been identified in a marine alga.
Learn more in this #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/49GjClc #ScienceMagArchives
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[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - Rhett A. Butler]
"If pangolins disappear, their burrows will fall silent, taking with them an unseen network of life. The study’s message is clear: preserving pangolins is not just about saving a species — it is about sustaining entire ecosystems."
"If pangolins disappear, their burrows will fall silent, taking with them an unseen network of life. The study’s message is clear: preserving pangolins is not just about saving a species — it is about sustaining entire ecosystems."
Pangolins help biodiversity recover after fires
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. A forest may burn to the ground, but beneath the ashes, a pangolin…
news.mongabay.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - Rhett A. Butler]
"If pangolins disappear, their burrows will fall silent, taking with them an unseen network of life. The study’s message is clear: preserving pangolins is not just about saving a species — it is about sustaining entire ecosystems."
"If pangolins disappear, their burrows will fall silent, taking with them an unseen network of life. The study’s message is clear: preserving pangolins is not just about saving a species — it is about sustaining entire ecosystems."
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[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - Rhett A Butler]
"Across universities & research institutions, field-based studies are in retreat, giving way to remote-sensing technologies, laboratory analysis, & large-scale data synthesis. The consequences of this shift, while not yet fully understood, could be far-reaching."
"Across universities & research institutions, field-based studies are in retreat, giving way to remote-sensing technologies, laboratory analysis, & large-scale data synthesis. The consequences of this shift, while not yet fully understood, could be far-reaching."
Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem.
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. There was a time when an ecologist’s education was not complete…
news.mongabay.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - Rhett A Butler]
"Across universities & research institutions, field-based studies are in retreat, giving way to remote-sensing technologies, laboratory analysis, & large-scale data synthesis. The consequences of this shift, while not yet fully understood, could be far-reaching."
"Across universities & research institutions, field-based studies are in retreat, giving way to remote-sensing technologies, laboratory analysis, & large-scale data synthesis. The consequences of this shift, while not yet fully understood, could be far-reaching."
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When it comes to reforestation, planting a diversity of tree species could have a plethora of positive effects on forest health and resilience, climate mitigation and biodiversity, finds recent studies from two long-running planted forest experiments in China and Panama.
Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change
When it comes to reforestation, planting a diversity of tree species could have a plethora of positive effects on forest health and resilience, climate mitigation and biodiversity. That’s based on…
news.mongabay.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
When it comes to reforestation, planting a diversity of tree species could have a plethora of positive effects on forest health and resilience, climate mitigation and biodiversity, finds recent studies from two long-running planted forest experiments in China and Panama.
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently updated its Red List of Threatened Species to include an additional 482 fungi, bringing the total to roughly 1,300 species of mushrooms, puffballs & other fungi. More than 400 of the species assessed are at risk of extinction.
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Nearly one-third of fungi on IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently updated its Red List of Threatened Species to include an additional 482 fungi, bringing the total to roughly 1,300 species of…
news.mongabay.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently updated its Red List of Threatened Species to include an additional 482 fungi, bringing the total to roughly 1,300 species of mushrooms, puffballs & other fungi. More than 400 of the species assessed are at risk of extinction.
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Forest restoration is booming but biodiversity isn’t
Forest restoration is booming but biodiversity isn’t
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay’s founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries. Global efforts to restore forests are gathering pace, driven…
news.mongabay.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Forest restoration is booming but biodiversity isn’t
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Iron absorption, storage and conservation in the body
"Screening, diagnosis, and treatment of adults with absolute iron deficiency without anemia and iron-deficiency anemia."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
"Screening, diagnosis, and treatment of adults with absolute iron deficiency without anemia and iron-deficiency anemia."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
March 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Iron absorption, storage and conservation in the body
"Screening, diagnosis, and treatment of adults with absolute iron deficiency without anemia and iron-deficiency anemia."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
"Screening, diagnosis, and treatment of adults with absolute iron deficiency without anemia and iron-deficiency anemia."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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‘A tree zoo’: endangered conifers a living legacy of Kent pinetum’s centenary
Bedgebury national pinetum has become a vital ark for rare evergreen trees, which are often unfairly maligned.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bedgebury national pinetum has become a vital ark for rare evergreen trees, which are often unfairly maligned.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A tree zoo’: endangered conifers a living legacy of Kent pinetum’s centenary
Bedgebury national pinetum has become a vital ark for rare evergreen trees, which are often unfairly maligned
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:49 AM
‘A tree zoo’: endangered conifers a living legacy of Kent pinetum’s centenary
Bedgebury national pinetum has become a vital ark for rare evergreen trees, which are often unfairly maligned.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bedgebury national pinetum has become a vital ark for rare evergreen trees, which are often unfairly maligned.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Some Tropical Trees Like The Feel Of Lightning On Their Branches
Some Tropical Trees Like The Feel Of Lightning On Their Branches
Most living things don’t cope well with having millions of volts put through them, but one tropical tree species appears to benefit from being struck by lightning.
www.iflscience.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Some Tropical Trees Like The Feel Of Lightning On Their Branches
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A thallus-forming N-fixing fungus-cyanobacterium symbiosis from subtropical forests
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A thallus-forming N-fixing fungus-cyanobacterium symbiosis from subtropical forests
Fungus lives within cyanobacterial sheaths in a thallus-forming symbiosis, named “phyllosymbia.”
www.science.org
March 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
A thallus-forming N-fixing fungus-cyanobacterium symbiosis from subtropical forests
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The amount of water stored in more than half of the largest lakes and reservoirs worldwide is declining, a 2023 Science study found.
The results underscore the importance of better water management to protect essential ecosystem services. scim.ag/41GM96M #WorldWaterDay
The results underscore the importance of better water management to protect essential ecosystem services. scim.ag/41GM96M #WorldWaterDay
Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage
Two-thirds of Earth's large lakes have decreased in volume over the past three decades.
scim.ag
March 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The amount of water stored in more than half of the largest lakes and reservoirs worldwide is declining, a 2023 Science study found.
The results underscore the importance of better water management to protect essential ecosystem services. scim.ag/41GM96M #WorldWaterDay
The results underscore the importance of better water management to protect essential ecosystem services. scim.ag/41GM96M #WorldWaterDay