War-torn South Sudan at grave risk on climate change
"I'm addicted to cutting trees," says Taban Ceasor.
Environment
Jul 18, 2017
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Angola slowly opens to conservationists after long civil war
Hippos, malaria and capsized canoes were among the hazards for National Geographic researchers paddling along an Angolan river that had been barely studied. On a separate survey in Angola, a conservationist drove on remote ...
Ecology
Jul 3, 2017
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Pickett's Charge—what modern mathematics teaches us about Civil War battle
The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the American Civil War, and Gen. George Pickett's infantry charge on July 3, 1863, was the battle's climax. Had the Confederate Army won, it could have continued its invasion ...
Other
Jun 30, 2017
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In our dis-unified nation, healing must start from within, says psychologist
Our nation is divided, says Josh Klapow, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, perhaps more than any time since the Civil War. Klapow says partisan politics, the nonstop 24-hour news cycle ...
Social Sciences
Jun 27, 2017
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One of Africa's largest wildlife relocations begins
Conservationists have launched what they call one of Africa's biggest wildlife relocations—the transfer of 7,500 animals over three years to a Mozambican park whose wildlife was nearly wiped out by civil war.
Ecology
Jun 21, 2017
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South Sudan wildlife surviving civil war, but poaching and trafficking threats increase
The first aerial assessment of the impact of South Sudan's current civil war on the country's wildlife and other natural resources shows that significant wildlife populations have so far survived, but poaching and commercial ...
Ecology
May 24, 2017
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Maimed lions show challenges of recovery in Mozambican park
They are amputees, lions that lost paws to wire snares or metal-jaw traps set by poachers.
Ecology
Dec 29, 2016
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When dictators die, stability reigns
A dictator's death rarely leads to regime change, according to a new study that comes as a fifth of the world's authoritarian rulers are at least 70 years old and in various stages of declining health.
Social Sciences
Nov 3, 2016
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Population analysis suggests Grauer's gorilla is Critically Endangered
Grauer's gorilla, which is confined to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is now Critically Endangered, according to a study published October 19, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Andrew Plumptre from Wildlife ...
Ecology
Oct 19, 2016
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Guide aims to help people better explore Antietambattlefield
While a recent wave of new scholarship about the battle of Antietam is helping experts more clearly understand the conflict, two historians are hoping their guidebook will also give visitors a better appreciation of the pivotal ...
Other
Sep 15, 2016
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