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Public research university in Cape Town, South Africa, with strong programs in ecology, conservation, astronomy, and earth sciences.
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South African researchers reviewed 128 field studies of climate impacts on Mediterranean-type plant communities and found 9% came from the Global South. That limits how far responses seen in California or the Mediterranean Basin can be carried to the Cape.
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Liver samples from 102 caracal deaths show anticoagulant rodenticides accumulating in an apex predator, most of them the potent second-generation compounds still sold over the counter.
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Two decades of Karoo Supergroup work is now one open-access review, and it reports that the basin's climate story is less tidy and its dating better constrained than in 2000.
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Push the Saguaro galaxy's arms below Webb's detection limit and what is left looks like a little red dot, according to a study published on July 29 in The Astrophysical Journal.
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A new compilation of Namibian and South African sightings finds 95% of blue and fin whale observations came after 2012. The counts are tiny, and that is the useful part.
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