Over 140 documents from notebooks and reports that feature first-person accounts of glacial landscapes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are now available to the public through the CU Digital Library.
Environment
Aug 3, 2022
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In a remote part of the Brazilian Amazon, a scientific expedition is cataloguing species. Time is of the essence.
Plants & Animals
Jul 13, 2022
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Climate change might be behind an unusual disease outbreak among Antarctic fish.
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2022
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You might think that Europe is so well studied that no large animals remain undiscovered. Yet today, a new species of giant keelback slug from Montenegro was announced in the open-access Biodiversity Data Journal. The animal, ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2022
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When Chilean scientist Osvaldo Ulloa led an expedition 8,000 meters under the sea to an area where no human had ever been, his team discovered microscopic organisms that generated more questions than answers.
Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2022
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With steep walls and deep valleys, the Grand Canyon in the western United States or the massive gorges that saw through the margins of the Tibetan Plateau are some of the most awesome and spectacular landforms on the planet. ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 23, 2022
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A scientific expedition in the Javari River basin on the border between Brazil, Colombia and Peru has shown use of environmental DNA sequencing to be feasible to investigate fish diversity in the Amazon. The eDNA method consists ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 23, 2021
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Marine scientists have returned from a research expedition to the far northern Great Barrier Reef with potentially tough, heat-resilient coral that may help corals adapt to warming oceans.
Plants & Animals
Nov 16, 2021
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Today, after spending ten years assessing the state of coral reefs around the world, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF) has released a comprehensive report of its findings from the Global Reef Expedition. ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 7, 2021
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Two new species of venomous snakes were just added to Asia's fauna—the Nujiang pit viper (Gloydius lipipengi) from Zayu, Tibet, and the Glacier pit viper (G. swild) found west of the Nujiang River and Heishui, Sichuan, ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 7, 2021
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