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Genetically engineered Arabidopsis plants (#89) yielded as much biomass as wild types (WT) but with enhanced polysaccharide deposition in the fibers of their cell walls.

The Desert Research Institute, at the two-day EPSCoR Western Tri-State Consortium, emphasized the importance of climate change adaption to a room full of scientists and stakeholders at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Many attendees came from all over the Western U.S. to participate in the workshop gaining further knowledge on the technical as well as the social side of climate change. Stakeholders for the workshop included the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Department of Defense to name a few.

A team from World Wildlife Fund (WWF)’s Indonesia office and the local Forestry Ministry's Natural Resources Conservation Agency have discovered fresh footprints similar to those of an extremely rare rhino thought extinct from the area.

The team came across the footprints while conducting an orangutan search in an area in West Kutai District, East Kalimantan, in Borneo.

Women are more vulnerable to natural hazards.

Butte Sink Wildlife Management Area in northern California. Aquatic invertebrates provide sustenance for waterfowl that travel the Pacific flyway.

The IMF report, Energy Subsidy Reform: Lessons and Implications, shines a much needed light on the dark side of fossil fuel subsidies.

Greenpeace International has won an important court ruling today when a Scottish court denied a request from oil company Cairn seeking to stifle protest against its Arctic drilling plans.

Greenland's incoming government believes that the country has a sufficient number of oil licenses and it will be cautious about awarding new permits, the next mining and oil minister said.