Reintroducing these animals can enrich barren soils and potentially reduce water contamination, a study shows _EOS
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Illegal Fossil Export Is More Than an ‘Irritator’ to the Global South
Researchers request the repatriation of a dinosaur fossil to Brazil. Some say the case highlights a pattern of scientific colonialism in paleontology _EOS
South American Rainforests Are on the Brink of Becoming Carbon Sources
Plants’ ability to stock carbon ceased during the 2015–2016 El Niño, as temperatures skyrocketed and trees died _ EOS
Farming Is Intensifying Floods in the South American Plains
The replacement of native vegetation by crops has raised groundwater levels in the Pampas _EOS
Brazil’s Amazon Summit falls short on charting meaningful goals to protect forest, researchers say
Leaders recognize the threat of a tipping point, but lack a concrete plan to halt deforestation and fossil fuel exploitation _SCIENCE
Clinical trials assess a precision-medicine approach to cancer screening
Risk-based screening approaches can reduce over-detection, while self-testing and new diagnostics find early disease _NATURE MEDICINE
Protecting the Ozone Layer Is Delaying Arctic Melting
The Montreal Protocol has unintentionally slowed global warming and pushed back the first ice-free Arctic summer by 15 years _EOS
Researchers and regulators plan for a future with fewer lab animals
The US Food and Drug Administration has reduced requirements for preclinical animal testing, leading to a surge of interest in organoids, tissue chips and in silico testing _NATURE MEDICINE
Seafloor plastic pollution is not going anywhere
The amount of microplastics at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea is growing as global production increases and plastic breakdown is halted_EOS
A river’s pulse
In the Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous people and researchers join hands to monitor the impacts of a controversial dam _SCIENCE
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