Our nation is divided, says Josh Klapow, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, perhaps more than any time since the Civil War. Klapow says partisan politics, the nonstop 24-hour news cycle ...
Social Sciences
Jun 27, 2017
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Conservationists have launched what they call one of Africa's biggest wildlife relocations—the transfer of 7,500 animals over three years to a Mozambican park whose wildlife was nearly wiped out by civil war.
Ecology
Jun 21, 2017
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The first aerial assessment of the impact of South Sudan's current civil war on the country's wildlife and other natural resources shows that significant wildlife populations have so far survived, but poaching and commercial ...
Ecology
May 24, 2017
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They are amputees, lions that lost paws to wire snares or metal-jaw traps set by poachers.
Ecology
Dec 29, 2016
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A dictator's death rarely leads to regime change, according to a new study that comes as a fifth of the world's authoritarian rulers are at least 70 years old and in various stages of declining health.
Social Sciences
Nov 3, 2016
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Grauer's gorilla, which is confined to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is now Critically Endangered, according to a study published October 19, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Andrew Plumptre from Wildlife ...
Ecology
Oct 19, 2016
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While a recent wave of new scholarship about the battle of Antietam is helping experts more clearly understand the conflict, two historians are hoping their guidebook will also give visitors a better appreciation of the pivotal ...
Other
Sep 15, 2016
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Civil wars divide nations along social, economic and political lines, often pitting neighbors against each other. In the aftermath of civil wars, many countries undertake truth and reconciliation efforts to restore social ...
Social Sciences
May 12, 2016
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Virtual reality (VR) has arrived. It has already been described as "revolutionary" and the "next big thing" in technology.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 27, 2016
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When a devastating heat wave hit India this year, it killed more than 2,500 people and melted the pavement of New Delhi's streets. In California, where an ordinary year sees mountain snow pile 6-feet (1.83-meters) deep or ...
Environment
Dec 14, 2015
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