The Trump administration has announced a position on protecting migratory birds that is a drastic pullback from policies in force for the past 100 years.
Ecology
Apr 16, 2018
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As long as there have been birdwatchers, there have been lists. Birders keep detailed records of the species they've seen and compare these lists with each other as evidence of their accomplishments. Now those lists, submitted ...
Ecology
Mar 12, 2018
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On July 22, 1847, a scouting party from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stood above the Great Salt Lake Valley in modern-day Utah; by 1870, more than 18,000 followers had colonized the valley and surrounding ...
Ecology
Nov 3, 2017
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Have you applied for and received a rebate from California's clean vehicle incentive program? If so, odds are you live in a high-income neighborhood and not one with a majority Hispanic or African American population, according ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 8, 2016
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Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus along with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University and other institutions have conducted the largest ever genome sequencing of populations with African ancestry ...
Biotechnology
Oct 11, 2016
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The story of Native North America – from its vast contribution to world culture, to the often taboo social problems of drinking, gambling and violence – is the subject of a sweeping new history by a Cambridge academic ...
Archaeology
Sep 27, 2016
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Science and religion have been butting heads since the days of Copernicus and Galileo, and it seems especially true in American politics. The conservative right tends to be more religious, while the liberal left tends to ...
Social Sciences
Sep 13, 2016
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DNA evidence lifted from the ancient bones and teeth of people who lived in Europe from the Late Pleistocene to the early Holocene—spanning almost 30,000 years of European prehistory—has offered some surprises, according ...
Archaeology
Feb 4, 2016
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There is little dispute that in the wake of European colonists' arrival in the New World, Native American populations were decimated by disease and conflict. But when it comes to the timing, magnitude, and effects of this ...
Environment
Jan 25, 2016
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A few recent publications and documentaries have hypothesized about an ancient trans-Atlantic migration that possibly could mean ancient Europeans or ancient Israelites contributed to the population of Native Americans, often ...
Archaeology
Jan 15, 2016
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