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Births to unwed moms rising, N. Europe beats US
May 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The percentage of births to unmarried women in the United States has been rising sharply, but it's way behind Northern European countries, a new U.S. report on births shows.
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Climate change fears for deadly virus outbreaks in livestock
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Global warming could have chilling consequences for European livestock, warned Professor Peter Mertens from the Institute for Animal Health, at this week's meeting of the Society for General Microbiology in Harrogate.
Invasions by alien plants have been mapped in Europe
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Jan 22, 2009 |
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Biological invasions are one of the major threats to biodiversity and in many cases they have considerable impact on economy and human health. For their effective management it is important to understand which areas and ecosystems ...
Are Ice Age relics the next casualty of climate change?
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Apr 24, 2008 |
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The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) recently launched a four-year study to determine if climate change is affecting populations of a quintessential Arctic denizen: the rare musk ox. Along with collaborators ...
Milk drinking started around 7,500 years ago in central Europe
Aug 28, 2009 |
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The ability to digest the milk sugar lactose first evolved in dairy farming communities in central Europe, not in more northern groups as was previously thought, finds a new study led by UCL (University College ...
European birds flock to warming Britain
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Jul 30, 2008 |
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Researchers at Durham, the RSPB and Cambridge University have found that birds such as the Cirl Bunting and Dartford Warbler are becoming more common across a wide range of habitats in Britain as temperatures rise.
Discovery of the oldest European marsupial
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Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of one of the oldest known marsupials have been recovered in Charente-Maritime by a palaeontologist team from the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (CNRS, France) and the ...
Towards understanding bluetongue outbreaks
Aug 14, 2008 |
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A recent article published in Virology, reports the identification of a bluetongue virus strain that caused the northern European Bluetongue outbreak in 2006. Comparison of the virus strain with the sequences of other previo ...
Britain’s last Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we thought
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Jun 23, 2008 |
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An archaeological excavation at a site near Pulborough, West Sussex, has thrown remarkable new light on the life of northern Europe’s last Neanderthals. It provides a snapshot of a thriving, developing population – rather ...
Has northern-hemisphere pollution affected Australian rainfall?
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Aug 26, 2009 |
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New research announced at the International Water in a Changing Climate Science Conference in Melbourne 24-28 August, implicates pollution from Asia, Europe and North America as a contributor to recent Australian rainfall ...
Genome-wide study uncovers an increase of genetic distances towards Northern Europe
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Oct 24, 2008 |
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A recent study shows that genetic differences in Central Europe appear smaller than between and even within North European populations.
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