Elephants: Earth's giant climate change canaries
In 2013, University of Michigan researcher Bill Sanders was invited to the Arabian Peninsula by an international team studying fossils and fossil sites in Abu Dhabi.
In 2013, University of Michigan researcher Bill Sanders was invited to the Arabian Peninsula by an international team studying fossils and fossil sites in Abu Dhabi.
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2023
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the world Monday to "stop the madness" of climate change as he visited Himalayan regions struggling from rapidly melting glaciers to witness the devastating impact of the phenomenon.
Environment
Oct 30, 2023
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Global food security is currently challenged by global changes, population expansion, and resource constrains. Integrated farming has been proposed as a sustainable approach to boost food production by taking advantage of ...
Ecology
Oct 26, 2023
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Biodiversity is essential for sustaining food security, livelihood, ecosystem health, and economic development and for preventing future epidemics. Asia, with nearly 60% of the world's population, stands out as a priority ...
Ecology
Oct 19, 2023
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Seeing elephants in the wild is a timelessly awe-inspiring experience. There are only three living species today: the African savannah elephant, African forest elephant, and Asian elephant.
Evolution
Oct 16, 2023
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Bumble bees have a remarkably successful method for fighting off Asian hornets, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Oct 5, 2023
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A pair of researchers, one a neuroscientist and physiologist at Boys Town National Research Hospital, the other an evolutionary biomechanics professor at the University of London, reports that elephants rely on their eyesight ...
The small, scaly, and highly endangered pangolin has been keeping a secret: it comprises not eight species but nine, with a new one discovered through analysis of confiscated scales.
Plants & Animals
Sep 26, 2023
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The 2022 Global Gender Gap Report showed Asian countries have managed to narrow the gender gap in economic, education and health sectors. But when it comes to political participation, the gap persists.
Economics & Business
Sep 22, 2023
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The Tibetan Plateau (TP), which is located in the subtropics of eastern Eurasia, could act as a bridge spanning from the mid-to-high-latitude forcing on the tropical climate, as well as from the tropical region to subtropical ...
Earth Sciences
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