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Environment

Man-made noise affects plants and birds

  The daily din we generate may have more of an effect on the environment than we originally thought.

Blame it on the hunters

New state of the debate: Australian megafauna hunted to extinction.

Unlocking the secrets of chemical signals

Witchweeds and smoke-responsive species have taken advantage of chemical signals, but not for the same reasons.

The canary in the mine might not croak

A common North American frog is identified as the carrier of the deadly chytridiomycosis.

Outback palms may have been introduced by humans

An ancient plant may have been carried to Palm Valley by humans.

Great southern blooms

A phytoplankton bloom swirl creates a figure-of-eight pattern in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Boozing up to boost survival rates

Fruit flies use alcohol as a drug to kill parasites.

Solving the native species conundrum

Introduced species cannot remain eternally new in an ecosystem.

Fire regimes threaten mistletoe

Mistletoe in the Pilbara could be facing regional extinction.

New species discovered

California Academy of Sciences described 140 new species in 2011, spanning six continents and three oceans.

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