Making urban environments greener and giving residents greater access to nature is an increasing focus for municipalities across the country. But all too often, these efforts do not take into consideration how communities ...
Social Sciences
Nov 1, 2022
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Australia holds an unenviable conservation status: it's the fourth-worst country in the world for species extinctions and is in the top three for critically endangered animals.
Ecology
Oct 28, 2022
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Outside of Nevada's bustling cities, private wells are the primary source of drinking water, serving 182,000 people. Yet some of the tested private wells in Nevada are contaminated with levels of heavy metals that exceed ...
Environment
Oct 26, 2022
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Music, dance, drama and poetry are important elements of ritual in African societies. Imbalu, the centuries-old circumcision ritual of Uganda's Bagisu people, is no different. When Bagisu boys between the ages of 16 and 22 ...
Social Sciences
Oct 7, 2022
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Authoritarian regimes worldwide have embraced the digital age. And they have been generally effective at limiting the online presence of perceived adversaries within their borders—from intellectual dissidents to transnational ...
Social Sciences
Oct 4, 2022
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When the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, many people turned to online sources to find health information. That was also largely the case for racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States, and a new study ...
Social Sciences
Sep 8, 2022
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Bullying is typically portrayed in popular culture as either physical aggression, such as pushing and kicking, or verbal aggression, such as threats and derogatory insults.
Social Sciences
Aug 27, 2022
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About 300 miles southwest of San Antonio, water taps have run dry in a major Mexico city.
Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2022
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In the popular Japanese TV series Old Enough, very young children are sent out into their neighborhood on their first solo errand. The release of this long-running series on Netflix this year created a buzz among Western ...
Social Sciences
Aug 4, 2022
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The proliferation of citizen science platforms has allowed for widespread collection of data in countless disciplines, including phenology, the study of the timing of seasonal events in plants and animals. Writing in BioScience, ...
Ecology
Aug 3, 2022
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