The concept of sustainable nature tourism plays a key role in mediating conflicts between tourism and nature conservation, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows.
Environment
Sep 21, 2020
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How much effort should be spent trying to keep Venice looking like Venice—even as it faces rising sea levels that threaten the city with more frequent extreme flooding?
Environment
Aug 10, 2020
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A study published today found national governments repeatedly resisted the placement of 41 UNESCO World Heritage sites—including the Great Barrier Reef—on the World Heritage in Danger list. This resistance is despite ...
Environment
Jul 20, 2020
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For most of the human history of Australia, sea levels were much lower than they are today, and there was extra dry land where people lived.
Archaeology
Jul 2, 2020
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All humans alive today can claim a common ancestral link to some hominin. Hominins include modern humans, extinct human species, and all our immediate ancestors.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 10, 2020
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The RMS Titanic's Marconi radio was last used to make distress calls from the north Atlantic after the ship struck an iceberg on April 14 1912. Now the radio could become the target of a salvage operation after a private ...
Archaeology
Jun 10, 2020
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n many regions of the world, the seafloor contains a fascinating archive of human history. This also applies to the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Their floors are not only home to shipwrecks, they also harbour remnants of human ...
Archaeology
May 20, 2020
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Cambodian archaeologists have unearthed a large centuries-old statue of a turtle at the Angkor temple complex.
Archaeology
May 7, 2020
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The catastrophic bushfire season is officially over, but governments, agencies and communities have failed to recognise the specific and disproportionate impact the fires have had on Aboriginal peoples.
Social Sciences
Apr 2, 2020
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The prehistoric collapse of Easter Island's monument-building society did not occur as long thought, according to a fresh look at evidence by researchers at four institutions.
Archaeology
Feb 6, 2020
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