Inuit in the Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut regions of Labrador have shared a deep and enduring connection with caribou for many generations. But more recently—in the wake of dramatic caribou population declines—the communities ...
Ecology
Aug 18, 2022
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While volunteering at an Indian orphanage in 1984, Dr. David Buck found his passion for helping those most in need during an encounter with the greatest humanitarian in human history—Mother Teresa. That unforgettable experience ...
Social Sciences
Aug 17, 2022
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Our many different organ systems are in constant communication with each other. During exercise, for example, muscles send out signals to fat and liver tissue to release their energy sources. While these communication networks ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 17, 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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Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold—further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 27, 2022
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In a study published today in the journal Science of the Total Environment, led by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research ...
Ecology
Jul 25, 2022
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Food insecurity is a pressing issue among U.S. college students and has increased dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic began. In a survey conducted by Healthy CUNY in April 2020, 50% of CUNY students reported worrying ...
Economics & Business
Jul 21, 2022
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Anxiety and fear went hand in hand with trying to learn more about COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic in the United States—and the most distressed people were turning on the television and scrolling through social ...
Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2022
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In the long-delayed State of the Environment report released this week, there is one terrifying sentence: "Environmental degradation is now considered a threat to humanity, which could bring about societal collapses."
Environment
Jul 21, 2022
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Cross-town sporting rivalry between the kids from the wealthy school and those from the country school—or the poorer suburbs—has been fodder for Hollywood movies such as Friday Night Lights, McFarland U.S., Coach Carter, ...
Social Sciences
Jul 11, 2022
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