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Humans around the world are stuck inside due to the coronavirus. How is the natural world reacting in the absence of all the noise we usually make?

Galls or cecidia are a kind of swelling growth on the externaltissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormaloutgrowths of plant tissues, similar to benign tumors or warts inanimals. They can be caused by various parasites, from viruses, fun and bacteria, to other plants, insects and mites.

Galls or cecidia are a kind of swelling growth on the externaltissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormaloutgrowths of plant tissues, similar to benign tumors or warts inanimals. They can be caused by various parasites, from viruses, fun and bacteria, to other plants, insects and mites.

John Latimer's official weekly assessment of nature.

Phenology: The rhythmic biological nature of events as they relate to climate. Local phenologist John Latimer reports the nature news of the week.

Border News Roundup with Marshall Helmberger

Marshall Helmberger with Border News Roundup

Students and listeners from across the state send in their phenology reports.

The horseshoe crab bleeding industry is in transition. One biomedical company agreed to more oversight, and a regulatory group is paving the way for drug companies to use animal-free alternatives.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will decide whether to list the greater sage grouse as endangered. Many groups, including some oil and gas firms and a conservation group, don't want that to happen.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Kyle Atkins-Weltman, a PhD student of paleoecology at Oklahoma State University, about a newly discovered dinosaur dubbed the "chicken from hell".

The federal government is charging the maker of the addiction drug Suboxone with fraud and conspiracy in marketing the drug to doctors.

After being hunted for decades, humpback whales returned to the Pacific Ocean in big numbers. Now, new technology is revealing that underwater heat waves are taking a toll on that recovery.

The Mississippian American Indian culture rose to power after A.D. 900 by farming corn. Now, new evidence suggests a dramatic change in climate might have led to the culture's collapse in the 1300s.

Horseshoe crab blood is used to test vaccines around the world. But while Europe has approved a synthetic alternative, biomedical labs are bleeding more crabs from the Atlantic coast.

Grass on the prairie is growing taller because there's now more carbon dioxide in the air. Paradoxically, though, this might be hurting wildlife, because the grass is less nutritious.

Border News Roundup with Marshall Helmberger

Marshall Helmberger with Border News Roundup

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