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A chlorophyll halo over maud rise in the southern ocean. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Ducrocq B, Steiger N, du Plessis M, Sallée JB, Moreau S, Swart S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What Is Space Bioethics?

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Classical bioethics examines moral issues in terrestrial medicine and the life sciences. According to Konrad Szocik, space bioethics merely relocates those questions to harsher environments. We argue that this view is incomplete: space bioethics is a genuinely original domain.
Maurizio Balistreri
wiley   +1 more source

Low-pressure storms drive nitrous oxide emissions in the Southern Ocean. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Kelly CL, Chang BX, Emmanuelli AF, Park ER, Macdonald AM, Nicholson DP.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Out There No One Has a Right to Die

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
wiley   +1 more source

Global Hotspots of Whale-Ship Collision Risk: A Multi-Species Framework Integrating Critical Habitat Zonation and Shipping Pressure for Conservation Prioritization. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Wang B, Zhao L, Lu T, Li L, Li T, Cong B, Liu S.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

In vitro culture, cryopreservation, and field reintroduction of the endangered Mingan thistle

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Current plant conservation efforts are hindered by, for example, poor seed germination, low viability, and insufficient propagation and preservation technologies. To address these problems, we devised an approach to plant conservation that integrates conservation, preservation, and restoration (CPR), which uses advanced in vitro techniques. We
Mukund R. Shukla, Wenlu Bi, Marie‐Claude Roy, Dénommée Nancy, Praveen K. Saxena   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Baselines Matter: Mass Spectrometric Assessments of Biological O₂ Supersaturation (ΔO₂:Ar) Benefit from Two-Point Calibrations. [PDF]

Anal Chem
Rokitta SD, Chamberlain EJ, D Angelo A, Bowman JS, Loose B, Ulfsbo A, Fong AA, Richter KU, Kranz SA, Rost B.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
wiley   +1 more source

Warming triggers polar carbon-mercury decoupling: Climate perturbation and biogeochemical disruption. [PDF]

Eco Environ Health
Zhou C, Liu M, Wang X.
europepmc   +1 more source

The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
wiley   +1 more source