生活专家预测，如果不采取行动，英国森林将在未来50年内“灾难性的生态系统崩溃”
A team of experts from across Europe has produced a list of 15 over-looked and emerging issues that are likely to have a significant impact on UK forests over the next 50 years.
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A UK-based team of Scientists, led by experts from the University of Nottingham and Imperial College London, have completed construction of a synthetic chromosome as part of a major international project to build the world's first synthetic yeast genome.
阅读全文生活科学家们离重写世界上第一个合成酵母基因组又近了一步，解开了生命的基本组成部分
Scientists have engineered a chromosome entirely from scratch that will contribute to the production of the world's first synthetic yeast.
阅读全文生活对磷的不同看法：细菌在这个过程中使用有机磷并释放甲烷
Off Barbados, researchers from Bremen have investigated how bacteria inadvertently release methane in order to obtain phosphorus -- with significant effects on atmospheric greenhouse gases.
阅读全文生活“外星”黄蜂在热带森林中茁壮成长
Researchers say they have discovered high diversity of Darwin wasps in a tropical rainforest in Brazil, wasps which were previously thought to thrive more in cooler habitats.
阅读全文生活五分之一的欧洲红色名录动植物物种可能面临灭绝风险
A new analysis of 14,669 threatened species of plants and animals found in Europe reveals that about one fifth face the risk of extinction, and that agricultural land-use change poses a significant threat to these species. Axel Hochkirch of the Musé
阅读全文生活海洋和淡水中的浮游动物正在迅速加剧塑料对全球环境的威胁
A collaborative research team lead by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently revealed that rotifers, a kind of microscopic zooplankton common in both fresh and ocean water around the world, are able to chew apart microplastics, breaking them
阅读全文生活藤壶弯曲形状以抵御移动中的温水海螺
Some barnacles are 'morphing' to protect themselves from predatory warm-water sea snails, which are expanding into their territory due to climate change.
阅读全文生活闪电被确定为北方森林野火的主要原因，威胁碳储存
Lightning is the dominant cause of wildfire ignition in boreal forests -- areas of global importance for carbon storage -- and will increase in frequency with climate change, according to new research.
阅读全文生活沙漠鸟类如果有更多的帮手，就会产下更大的蛋
Desert birds lay larger eggs when they have more helpers to feed their chicks, new research shows.
阅读全文生活纽约州蜂蜡JianCe测到杀虫剂、除草剂和杀菌剂
An analysis of beeswax in managed honeybee hives in New York found a wide variety of pesticide, herbicide and fungicide residues -- exposing current and future generations of bees to long-term toxicity.
阅读全文生活蜂鸟独特的侧向扑动使它们穿过小孔
Most birds that flit through dense, leafy forests have a strategy for maneuvering through tight windows in the vegetation -- they bend their wings at the wrist or elbow and barrel through.
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