When United States aid money was used to build a seawall on Fiji's Vanua Levu island to shield the community from rising tides, it instead acted as a dam, trapping water and debris on its landward side.
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2023
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It's said that a dog is a man's best friend, but the wild dingo is much maligned in Australia. This may not always have been the case though, with new research led by experts at The Australian National University and The ...
Archaeology
Oct 20, 2023
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A new paper in the Annals of Botany reveals that researchers have found unaltered agave plant species cultivated by several early cultures including the Hohokam people, a large Native American group in the Southwest that ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 10, 2023
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The world's most diverse forest, the Amazon, may also host more than 10,000 records of pre-Columbian earthworks (constructed prior to the arrival of Europeans), according to a new study. The new study combines cutting-edge ...
Archaeology
Oct 5, 2023
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Language is foundational to Indigenous communities, including my own, and a vital connection to our cultures.
Social Sciences
Oct 4, 2023
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Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced a new ministerial portfolio in August: Marine and Blue Economy. This was welcome news as it renewed hope for economic development outside the oil sector. We asked marine sustainability ...
Economics & Business
Oct 3, 2023
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Adrienne Jerome is heartbroken. Her house survived Canada's record wildfires this year, but everything that made her and many other Indigenous people in the area feel at home—the spruce forests that enveloped her town, ...
Environment
Oct 2, 2023
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Over the past year I have worked at University nuhelot'įne thaiyots'į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills (UnBQ) as the Indian Residential School Coordinator. There, I spent time speaking with survivors of Indian Residential ...
Education
Sep 29, 2023
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In 2022, the Penn Museum announced that it would rebury the skulls of dozens of Black Philadelphian individuals whose remains were unethically obtained in the mid-1800s. Some in the community of the individuals' descendants, ...
Archaeology
Sep 29, 2023
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Every person hosts trillions of microorganisms, like bacteria and viruses, on their skin and in organs including those that make up the digestive tract, like their mouth, that collectively make up their microbiome. Microbiome ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 28, 2023
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