Research by an international team of scientists led by University of New Mexico Professor Yemane Asmerom suggests contraction of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) during a warming Earth, leading in turn to drying ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 14, 2020
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Tourists today spend thousands of dollars to explore and enjoy the lush and thriving rainforests of Guatemala.
Earth Sciences
Feb 5, 2020
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Once again, Panama, home of the narrow land bridge that connects North and South America, could play an outsized role in mammal history.
Plants & Animals
Dec 23, 2019
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As soon as I entered Elmina Castle (the dungeons) in Cape Coast in Ghana, I felt haunted by over 400 years of brutality and the enslavement and genocide of millions of African and Indigenous peoples. That violence still impacts ...
Social Sciences
Dec 6, 2019
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A quick Google search for "What is driving migration from Central America?" reveals that nearly all of the top hits claim climate change as a major catalyst for the mass movement of people out of their home countries. University ...
Environment
Nov 13, 2019
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The Bayou City is home to some impressive bat colonies, but University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) researcher Dr. Amy Baird's latest discovery spreads its wings more than 2,000 miles away.
Ecology
Oct 30, 2019
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A RUDN geographer used an economic model to calculate the costs associated with the accomplishment of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on water supply and sanitation. The model has demonstrated that by 2050, ...
Environment
Oct 25, 2019
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The International Monitoring System is the top global seismic network for monitoring nuclear weapon tests around the world. To expand the system's detection capabilities, however, international monitors should seek out the ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 2, 2019
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Native North Americans first arrived in Florida approximately 14,550 years ago. Evidence for these stone-tool-wielding, megafauna-hunting peoples can be found at the bottom of numerous limestone freshwater sinkholes in Florida's ...
Archaeology
Sep 27, 2019
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Convection in Earth's mantle is the "engine" driving plate tectonics. Hot material rises to the Earth's surface from the boundary between the planet's core and mantle, at a depth of about 3000 kilometers. Cold material then ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 9, 2019
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