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Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Trend for extreme breeding is now affecting horses 7 years, 2 months ago

UK vets have reacted strongly to images of a horse that has been bred to achieve an extreme concave or ‘dished’ profile, warning of numerous health risks.

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Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Orange is the New Green: How Orange Peels Revived a Costa Rican Forest 7 years, 3 months ago

PRINCETON, N.J.—In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange pulp were purposefully unloaded onto a barren pasture in a Costa Rican national park. Today, that area is covered in lush, vine-laden f […]

Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Marine Extinctions an Unavoidable Cost of Deep Sea Mining 7 years, 5 months ago

DURHAM, N.C. – Biodiversity losses from deep-sea mining are unavoidable and possibly irrevocable, an international team of 15 marine scientists, resource economists and legal scholars argue in a letter published J […]

Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Loss of Tropical Forest to Commercial Agriculture Accelerating Worldwide 7 years, 7 months ago

DURHAM, N.C. – Larger patches of tropical forest are being lost worldwide as governments and corporations clear more land to make way for industrial-scale agriculture, a Duke University study shows.

The newly p […]

Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Poaching Drives 80% Decline in Elephants in Key Preserve 7 years, 10 months ago

DURHAM, N.C. – Forest elephant populations in one of Central Africa’s largest and most important preserves have declined between 78 percent and 81 percent because of poaching, a new Duke University-led study fin […]

Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Leading human-crocodile conflict specialist calls for a new approach to managing human-predator relations 7 years, 10 months ago

Dr. Simon Pooley, a specialist in human-wildlife conflict at Birkbeck, University of London, is calling for a fundamental rethink of how we study and manage human-predator relations, particularly where conflicts […]

Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Insufficient evidence to support use of homeopathy in farm animals 7 years, 11 months ago

(Featured image: pigs confined in an intensive farm in the West Bank. Courtesy Kim Bartlett – Animal People, Inc.)

There is insufficient evidence to support the use of homeopathy in farm animals as a way to […]

Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Remote Sensing Data Reveals Hundreds More Species At Risk of Extinction 8 years, 1 month ago

(Featured image: Yellow-throated toucan in Costa Rica. The yellow-throated toucan, Ramphastos ambiguus, is currently classified as Least Concern by IUCN, yet according to the new study should be listed as […]

Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Bushmeat Hunting Drives Biodiversity Declines in Central Africa 8 years, 1 month ago

(Featured image: carnivoran, probably a mongoose, killed for bushmeat in Gabon. Credit jbdodane, CC BY-NC 2.0)

DURHAM, N.C. – Hunting has dramatically reduced wildlife biodiversity in forests near rural […]

Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Male Chimpanzees Fight For Status, Females Wait Their Turn 8 years, 2 months ago

(Featured image: female chimps Sophie and Megan at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Lake Victoria, Uganda. Credit International Fund for Animal Welfare, CC BY-NC 2.0)

DURHAM, N.C. – For wild […]

Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Walking the Dog Helps Keep Owners Healthy and Neighborhoods Feeling Safe 8 years, 2 months ago

BRUSSELS, October 13, 2016 – An international study published in BMC Public Health has found dog walkers are physically active on more […]

Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Global Fishing Watch: New Online Tool Tracks Commercial Fishing Worldwide 8 years, 3 months ago

(Featured image: bait fish in net in the Maldives. Credit Hani Amir, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Oceana, SkyTruth and Google Launch Global Fishing Watch, First Free, Online Tool to Reveal Commercial Fishing […]

Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Many More Species at Risk from Southeast Asia Tree Plantations, Study Finds 8 years, 4 months ago

(Featured image: White-rumped vulture, Gyps bengalensis, a once-common species across southern Asia, now critically endangered due to habitat destruction as well as poisoning. Credit Allan Hopkins, used under CC […]

Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Isolated coral reefs far from human activity are not healthier 8 years, 4 months ago

(Featured image: bleached coral reef off Tioman Island, Malaysia. Credit Paul, used under CC BY-SA 2.0)

New UNC-Chapel Hill research shows that coral reef decline illustrates the far reach of climate change — a […]

Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Forests, Species on Four Continents Threatened by Palm Oil Expansion 8 years, 4 months ago

(Featured image: forest in Nigeria cut down for palm oil production. Credit jbdodane, used under CC BY-NC 2.0 / cropped)

Via Duke University Office of News and Communications

DURHAM, N.C. – As palm oil […]

Scientific Press Releases wrote a new post, Temperature Helps Drive the Emergence of Different Personalities in Spiders 8 years, 5 months ago

(Photo credit: Joe Lapp, used under CC BY-NC 2.0)

(Chapel Hill, N.C.—July 21, 2016) – Like people, animals have personalities. And their personalities differ, sometimes hugely, on traits like shyness and agg […]

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