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They are hunted for their unique scales, and the demand makes them the most trafficked mammal in the world. Wildlife conservationists are again raising the plight of pangolins, the shy, scaly anteaters found in parts of Africa and Asia, on World Pangolin Day on Saturday.

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At least 1,100 dead or sick birds, mostly Canada geese, have been reported across New Jersey in an outbreak that started on Valentine's Day, according to state officials.

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Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection dramatically remodels the host cell's nuclear structures. Infection leads to the formation of viral replication compartments and to chromatin marginalization to the nuclear periphery. Joint research by the Universities of Jyväskylä (Finland) and Bar-Ilan (Israel) reveals that viral infection also alters the structure of nuclear speckles, which are essential for messenger RNA processing.

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Nearly a month after a wastewater pipe broke and spewed hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River just north of Washington, D.C., the latest water testing results from the University of Maryland School of Public Health continue to show high levels of E. coli and S. aureus — commonly called staph, including antibiotic-resistant MRSA.

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When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor.

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A key question in any discussion about climate is "How much rain fell?" But perhaps there is an even more important one. Like any household budget, the global water economy is based on "income," that is, water entering the system as precipitation, and "expenditure"—water leaving the system through various forms of evaporation. On land, water evaporates mainly through vegetation, in a process known as evapo-transpiration.

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Thick cloud cover can completely obscure the surface of the Earth from satellite view, while thinner haze and shadows distort the image of rural and urban regions. As such, many remote sensing images for monitoring climate, crops, and urban growth are only partially usable.

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In 2013, farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia began to notice something unsettling: a familiar variety of wheat was failing in an unfamiliar way. Stems weakened, plants collapsed, and fields that had once held firm against disease were suddenly vulnerable. Three years later, the same unease surfaced thousands of kilometers away, when wheat crops in Sicily—including prized durum varieties destined for pasta—succumbed to a fast-moving stem rust outbreak that baffled local farmers.

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Paul Rosolie has had a career unlike any other. First traveling to the Peruvian Amazon at the age of 18, Rosolie partnered with Juan Julio Durand, a local member of the Infierno Indigenous group. Together, the pair explored the primeval forest of the Las Piedras River, a tributary of the Amazon River and a place little seen by outsiders. “It’s climax community, untouched, primordial forest, and we have the chance to save it,” Rosolie tells Mongabay in a new interview. When roads began to breach the region, Rosolie and Durand turned from young explorers into “junglekeepers,” the name of both their nonprofit and a new book by Rosolie. Junglekeepers: What it Takes to Change the World is the personal tale of Rosolie’s rise from a wide-eyed student to heading a multimillion-dollar nonprofit devoted to saving part of the western Amazon — and all the challenges in between. The book recently made The New York Times Best Sellers list. Rosolie says he had many ups and downs in the book. From the Eaten Alive documentary debacle to partnering with billionaire Dax Dasilva to fund the Junglekeepers nonprofit; from discovering the floating forest with its giant anacondas to struggling for years with depression and a plaguing sense of failure. “At 22, people are like, ‘Yes, go follow your dream.’ At 29, people are like, ‘OK, that’s cool. It’s been going on for a while’ … Then, at 33, 35, people are like, ‘Hey, man. How’s that going, jungle boy?’” Rosolie says. The…This article was originally published on Mongabay

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An economic study calculates the effectiveness of a novel policy instrument: The underlying idea is that you are allowed to release the climate gas CO₂ into the atmosphere—but only if you promise to "clean up" later through carbon removal. The market forces activated by clean-up certificates can greatly strengthen the fight against global heating without placing an extra burden on the economy. The study was conducted by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and released in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

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Love is in the air for the vinegar fly. Drosophila melanogaster has long been a model for understanding how brains translate sensory information into courtship behavior. Male flies perform a multitude of romantic actions—orienting, tapping, chasing and singing—directed toward eligible females.

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Inside every cell, thousands of molecular signals collide, overlap, and compensate, obscuring the true drivers of gene expression. Scientists have now developed a way to silence that cellular noise, revealing transcription drivers by reconstructing transcription outside of the cell.

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Plants have an immune system, like people, and when it is triggered by threats like disease or pests, a plant's defenses are activated. But there's a downside to this protective mechanism: the plant's growth is suppressed when its immune system is turned on. Colorado State University researchers have found a way to boost a plant's growth while maintaining its immunity through a hormone treatment that shows promise for food production.

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Last Updated on February 23, 2026 Dear reader, Across the world right now, Indigenous peoples are facing a renewed assault on their lands, rights, and ways of life. From extractive industries pushing deeper into ancestral territories, to governments rolling back hard-won protections, the threat is global—and it is growing. What makes this moment especially dangerous […]

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Biodiversity is changing across the planet, yet governments still lack the robust, consistent data needed to track these changes and guide effective conservation. Now, a new study led by the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), proposes a comprehensive roadmap to build a modern, integrated Biodiversity Observation Network (BON) for Europe—one that could become a global model for biodiversity monitoring in the 21st century.

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International shipping is on the rise in the Arctic region now that climate change regularly opens up transpolar sea routes in summer. That surge in traffic is leading to higher emissions of black carbon — colloquially known as soot, considered a “super pollutant.” Those emissions are escalating climate change and quickening sea ice and snow loss across the Arctic, which is already Earth’s most rapidly warming region. At a recent meeting of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), member states (led by Denmark, and including France, Germany and the Solomon Islands), proposed new regulations to require ships sailing in the Arctic to use fuels that emit low amounts of black carbon. But in February, global petrostates, including Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States, opposed this effort, meant to slow Arctic warming. This delay follows a 2025 postponement of an IMO plan that had been widely expected to succeed, which would have accelerated the decarbonization of global shipping. That plan was blocked by the U.S. along with other oil-producing nations. The just-nixed Arctic proposal would have required ships sailing in the Far North to stop burning residual fuels — responsible for high black carbon emissions — and instead move to less polluting fuels. As spring approaches in the Arctic, an orange horizon backlights a ship’s stack emissions. The Research Vessel Polarstern embarked on a yearlong expedition to drift in Arctic sea ice called the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC). Image by Julienne Stroeve/NSIDC via Flickr (CC…This article was originally published on Mongabay

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Civil Rights activist and activist for Indigenous people Jesse Jackson died on Feb. 17. He was remembered for his close relationship with Martin Luther King Jr. and a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement.

“Jesse Jackson was a strong and powerful ally between the Black community and the Indigenous people on this land. I thought that it was very helpful to us to have a powerful ally,” founder and CEO of NDN Collective Nick Tilsen said.

Jackson, who was also a reverend, said he had Cherokee ancestry.

He aligned himself with several Indigenous groups and causes like the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance to protect a sacred site from nuclear waste dumping. He supported the Cherokee Nation to have a non-voting delegate in Congress, advocated for the release of Leonard Peltier and was at the frontlines of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in 2016.

Jackson, 75 years old at the time, said when he visited North Dakota, he was willing to go to jail.

“With promises broken, land stolen, and sacred lands desecrated, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is standing up for their right to clean water. They have lost land for settlers to farm, more land for gold in the Black Hills, and then again even more land for the dam that was built for flood control and hydro power. When will the taking stop? When will we start treating the first peoples of this lands with the respect and honor they deserve?” Jackson said in a press release at the time.

Tilsen, Oglala Lakota, said he remembers flying with Jesse Jackson from Chicago to Bismarck, North Dakota to protest against the pipeline. Tilsen said Jackson asked him to explain the entire political history of the Lakota people during the flight.

“When we were getting ready to get off the plane, he was putting his pea coat on and he had his scarf. He kind of started punching the air like how a boxer does when he gets ready. He started saying, ‘Hey, brother Nick we don’t need no pipelines. We need lifelines. All kinds of lifelines and no kind of pipelines,’” Tilsen said.

After shaking everybody’s hand, Jackson immediately wanted to go to the frontlines.

Actor Mark Ruffalo posted on social media that Jackson “stopped a wave of violence from the militias on the hill at Standing Rock the day the camp got word they were going to move in with a violent crackdown.”

“I have never felt such hatred focused on another group of people as those men armed with weapons of war staring out of their cold eyes to the peaceful water protectors. It burned my soul,” Ruffalo said. “Jesse Jackson showed up and with him a sense of peace and calm. We will miss this man. Rest in power!”

Fredricka Hunter, who said she was a Native American outreach coordinator for presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004, met Jackson a couple of times. She said she was heartbroken to hear of Jackson’s death.

She recalled Jackson sitting next to Hillary and Chelsea Clinton at the Democrat National Convention in 2004 where Obama made his keynote address.

“As I watched and listened to Obama’s historic speech, I could feel the passing of the torch for Jesse Jackson to Barack Obama. Those feelings still give me the chills,” Hunter said.

Jackson alongside Indigenous rapper Litefoot called for Hip Hop duo OutKast to apologize for their 46th Annual GRAMMY performance that depicted Indigenous clothing and tipis.

Litefoot said Jackson agreed to appear as his guest at the Gathering of Nations in 2004 and mutually invite OutKast to speak on stage.

Chuck Hoskin Jr., Cherokee Nation Principal Chief, released a statement about how Jackson was a friend to the Cherokee people and how he reached out to the Cherokee Nation six years ago to discuss issues and visited leaders in 2022.

“His message to Cherokee Nation was always one of interest in our history and issues and one of encouragement for Black people and Native Americans to find common cause in the name of peace, justice, equality and prosperity,” Hoskin said.

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About 10 million years ago, Antarctica's Southern Ocean started to get so cold that it scared away most fish in the region. Among the fish that stayed were what are now known as black rockcod, part of a famously sturdy family of Antarctic fish. But the black rockcod's future could also now be in jeopardy as Southern Ocean temperatures are projected to shift in the opposite direction due to climate change.

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Antarctic scientists have trialed a DNA "barcoding" technique that could improve biosecurity measures that help protect polar ecosystems from invasive marine species. The research, led by Australian Antarctic Program scientists, used environmental DNA (eDNA) in water samples to detect species known to hitchhike on ships' hulls.

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Kombu (Saccharina japonica) is a brown seaweed extensively cultivated and consumed in Japan, Korea and China. Despite its nutritional value, its strong fishy and grassy odor can deter some consumers. Additionally, many of kombu's nutrients are locked inside rigid cell walls and dense networks that the human digestive system cannot easily break down. As a result, much of this treasure trove of nutrients passes through the body without being absorbed.

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What do coffee, sugar, wheat, soy, eucalypts and paperbarks all have in common?

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Carbon dioxide (CO₂) connects us to the natural world: What we breathe out becomes fuel for forests. But inside our own bodies, CO₂ has a secret life. It sparks chemical reactions, shapes metabolism, and may even act as a signaling molecule—and a new tool is finally letting researchers watch it glow in action.

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Standing on the coast and looking out to sea, you cannot detect the changes with the naked eye. But in northern Germany, sea levels are rising, as is the risk of flooding for the lower-lying coastal regions.

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When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the familiar geography of today slowly emerged. For decades, many geoscientists have suggested that this dramatic breakup was fueled by an accumulation of heat beneath the supercontinent, a kind of planetary "thermal insulation" effect that caused the underlying mantle (the thick layer of rock between Earth's crust and its core) to grow unusually hot.

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Many fish appear to hang effortlessly in the water while they wait for prey, defend a nest or pause between bursts of activity. But our research shows that this quiet stillness is anything but effortless. Hovering, the behavior that allows a fish to remain suspended in one place, is far more energetically demanding than scientists once believed.

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