Japan's Mount Fuji will likely be added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites next month after an influential advisory panel to the UN cultural body made a recommendation, officials said.
Environment
May 1, 2013
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Australian researchers are using a novel mobile laser 3D mapping system called Zebedee to preserve some of the country's oldest and most culturally significant heritage sites.
Engineering
Apr 15, 2013
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The multibillion-dollar trade in illegal wildlife—clandestine trafficking that has driven iconic creatures like the tiger to near-extinction—is also threatening the survival of great apes, a new U.N. report says.
Ecology
Mar 26, 2013
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Efforts are underway to save the famed giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands by wiping out the rodents that prey on their eggs and hatchlings, environmentalists here said.
Ecology
Dec 13, 2012
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(Phys.org)—A Swiss primatologist who arrived at The University of Western Australia in April to work in the School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology probably won't mind too much if his students start 'monkeying around' ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 5, 2012
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Newly described species points to richer marine biodiversity in Guam waters than previously understood.
Ecology
Oct 10, 2012
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Marine biologists have found that port environments are enabling invasive sea stars to breed at a rapid rate.
Ecology
Jun 26, 2012
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Wild orangutans that have come into contact with eco-tourists over a period of years show an immediate stress response but no signs of chronic stress, unlike other species in which permanent alterations in stress responses ...
Ecology
Mar 15, 2012
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A critically endangered species of rhino has been poached to extinction in Vietnam, wildlife groups said Tuesday after the country's last Javan rhino was found dead with its horn hacked off.
Ecology
Oct 25, 2011
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Fact: The sex of some species of turtles is determined by the temperature of the nest: warm nests produce females, cooler nests, males. And although turtles have been on the planet for about 220 million years, scientists ...
Ecology
Feb 2, 2011
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