Banned in Europe, sprayed in America: The fungicide threatening our pollinators

A widely-used agricultural chemical sprayed on American and Australian fruits and vegetables to prevent fungal disease is killing beneficial insects critical for pollination and ecosystem health, new Macquarie University research shows. The study, published in Royal Society Open Science, found chlorothalonil – one of the world’s most extensively used fungicides – severely impacts insect reproduction…

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Earth’s weather satellites just spent 10 years watching Venus — here’s what they found

Imaging data from Japan’s Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully used to monitor temporal changes in Venus’ cloud-top temperature, revealing unseen patterns in the temperature structure of various waves. A team led by the University of Tokyo collated infrared images from 2015-25 to estimate brightness temperatures on day to year scales. The results…

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How female friendships help chimp babies survive

In chimpanzee communities, strong social ties can be a matter of life and death not just for the adults who form them, but for their kids, too. A new federally-funded study of wild eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) from Gombe National Park shows that female chimpanzees who were more socially integrated with other females in…

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