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Seaweed farms show potential for carbon storage that gets better with age
Location of sampled seaweed farms, time elapsed (years) since the start of farming and the size of the harvested area (HA). Credit: Natural Climate Change (2025). doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02238-1 A large team of researchers from diverse backgrounds has found evidence that carbon storage beneath seaweed can accumulate as much carbon as some blue carbon habitats. In their study, published in Nature Climate…
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Biology
Study shows bird flight paths past two wind farms proposed for Bass Strait
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A world-first study of migratory bird movements across Bass Strait has found the birds are moving directly through areas designated by the federal government for two offshore wind farms. Monash University researchers studying Tasmania’s boob owl have for the first time investigated its flight migration path from Victoria to Tasmania, tracking the birds via satellite and…
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Biology
New strategies needed to fight immune system-damaging poultry virus detected on UK farms
HVR-based phylogenetic tree of the VP2 gene encoded by segment A. Credit: Virology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2024.110269 Researchers working to understand the spread of the virus, which can severely damage chickens’ immune systems, say new strategies are needed to improve control of the disease in the UK. . Dr Vishi Reddy from Keele University was one of the researchers on a…
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