It is not just the environment and the economy that are threatened by a warmer climate, but also culture and traditions around the word. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden and the University of Queensland in Australia ...
Environment
Sep 8, 2021
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When people arrived in Australia more than 65,000 years ago, they landed on shores that are now deep under water. The first footprints on this continent took place on these now-submerged landscapes.
Archaeology
Aug 31, 2021
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The Journal of Anthropological Research has just published a new article on the development of linguistic documentation among heritage language speakers: "Articulating Lingual Life Histories and Language Ideological Assemblages: ...
Social Sciences
Mar 18, 2021
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Just as the parliamentary inquiry into Rio Tinto's destruction of the Juukan Gorge rock shelters was reconvening in Canberra, another culturally significant site was damaged at one of BHP's iron ore mines in the Pilbara.
Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2021
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Aotearoa New Zealand likes to think it punches above its weight internationally, but there is one area where we are conspicuously falling behind—the number of sites recognized by the UNESCO World Heritage Convention.
Environment
Jan 4, 2021
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Analytical optical methods are vital to our modern society as they permit the fast and secure identification of substances within solids, liquids or gases. These methods rely on light interacting with each of these substances ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 14, 2020
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A painting that hung for decades in a municipal building in Brussels has been authenticated as the work of Flemish master Jacob Jordaens, Belgian conservators said Tuesday.
Other
Dec 8, 2020
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Solar radiation, rain, humidity and extreme temperatures. Cultural heritage is exposed to an array of external factors that deteriorate it over time. Among them, the most aggressive may well be microbial contamination, caused ...
Materials Science
Nov 9, 2020
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The concept of sustainable nature tourism plays a key role in mediating conflicts between tourism and nature conservation, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows.
Environment
Sep 21, 2020
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How much effort should be spent trying to keep Venice looking like Venice—even as it faces rising sea levels that threaten the city with more frequent extreme flooding?
Environment
Aug 10, 2020
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