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Ecology Feb 5, 2024

Mapping Australia's marine estate: Seafloor surveillance for biodiversity management

Global marine biodiversity is continually being threatened by oceanographic changes linked to both global warming and anthropogenic activities that degrade the ambient environment for marine organisms. Australia's oceanographic ...

Ecology Jan 29, 2024

'Everyone can be a naturalist' says the man who preserved more than 150,000 acres

Suburban environs can be dull. Lawns and roads don't offer much biodiversity for curious boys. But Charles Bier, a recently retired senior director of conservation science for the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, found a ...

Archaeology Jan 3, 2024

New England stone walls deserve a science of their own

The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere—a latticework of dry, lichen-crusted stone ridges ...

Archaeology Jan 2, 2024

New research shows the Cerne Abbas Giant was a muster station for King Alfred's armies

New research from the University of Oxford concludes that the Cerne Abbas Giant was originally carved as an image of Hercules to mark a muster station for West Saxon armies. The figure was later reinterpreted by the monks ...

Astrobiology Dec 19, 2023

Recent volcanism on Mars reveals a planet more active than previously thought

A vast, flat, "featureless" plain on Mars surprised researchers by revealing a much more tumultuous geologic past than expected, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Arizona. Enormous amounts of lava ...

Environment Nov 14, 2023

How waste from the mining industry has perpetuated apartheid-like policies in South Africa

While apartheid—South Africa's brutal racial segregation laws of the 20th century—officially came to an end in the early 1990s, its harmful effects persist today, says Stanford historian Gabrielle Hecht in her new book, ...

Biotechnology Oct 19, 2023

Scientists release 10-meter-resolution cotton map of Xinjiang, China

Scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with collaborators from Shihezi University (Xinjiang, China) and University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada), ...

Earth Sciences Oct 11, 2023

Isotope database will help Mexican communities better understand hydrology processes

With a population of 127 million and a land mass about a fifth the size of the United States, Mexico has a large spectrum of climates and landscapes, ranging from mountains to coastal regions and from deserts to glaciers. ...

Earth Sciences Oct 6, 2023

How Arctic landscapes and Canadian cityscapes share a similar pattern

The year 2023 has been one of extremes, from heat waves that baked millions across the globe and made the summer the world's hottest on record to the fires that forced tens of thousands to evacuate across Western Canada. ...

Earth Sciences Sep 25, 2023

Glaciers are becoming smaller and disappearing, finds new inventory

The Western United States is losing its glaciers.

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